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Good news for Jitscale customers; Amazon lowers its data transfer prices
There is some good news for all Jitscale customers running their infrastracture on Amazon AWS. Amazon will lower its data transfer prices, making cloud computing – besides increasing the flexibility of your organization and improving the performance of your infrastructure – even more cost effective.
Read more Amazon Web Services in trouble
Some of Amazon’s Web Services are currently experiencing technical difficulties. HootSuite, Foursquare and some other well-known sites, that rely on Amazon AWS, are either down or have recently experienced downtime or latency issues.
Flexibility primary benefit of migrating to the cloud
Whilst cloud providers have been primarily focussing on cost savings to persuade companies to migrate to the cloud, a recent study conducted by the Cloud Industry Forum in the UK shows that the agility given to businesses to deliver new services is the primary driver to adopt cloud computing.
IC&S expands success in insurance market with Unigarant
IC&S Service & Support B.V. has added multiple insurers to its client list. Unigarant Insurance is one of these new clients. Since March 1st, IC&S manages the online platform on which Unigarant closes all insurance policies. IC&S and Unigarant have partnered on a multi-year agreement.
Jitscale First ISO 27001-certified Cloud-over-Cloud IaaS-supplier
Jitscale has announced further expansion of its Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and cloud management offerings. Targeting key growth markets globally, Jitscale has planned an international expansion to coincide with its recent ISO/IEC 27001 certification.
Amazon launches Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an even easier way for developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. They simply upload their application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.
Virtualization is opening new markets
Tom Bittman, vice president and distinguished analyst with Gartner Research, reported some interesting findings earlier this fall.
CIOs can’t choose right Cloud
According to a survey held by Savvis in cooperation with IDG Research and CIO Custom Solutions Group in September and October 2010, 60% of IT managers have difficulties to choose the right cloud solution. When asked about their preference, 42% will purchase an enterprise-grade/ best-of-breed cloud solution and a small percentage (24%) decides to choose a hosted/ white label cloud solution.
Fragmented Europe to become cloud friendly
According to an article published on Computerworld.nl, Euro-commissioner Neelie Kroes (Digital Agenda & ICT) warns for the danger of Cloud Computing. Therefore, the European Commission is going to introduce new and strict rules regarding data storage and processing abroad.
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