Amazon hypes the virtues of cloud computing
June 6, 2014
Grazed from ITWorld Canada. Author: Andrew Brooks.
From its origins as an online bookseller, Amazon.com Inc. has gotten its finger in a lot of pies. Among other things, it has now become a major purveyor of cloud computing services to large organizations. As we reported a few weeks ago, even the Ontario government has moved its own web site onto Amazon cloud servers as part of a broad program of data centre downsizing.
Amazon wasn’t shy about hyping the cloud at a recent technology forum, according to a blog posting on our sister site IT Business.ca. The company was one of the presenters at Computex, the massive computer trade show held in Taipei, Taiwan this week. It’s the largest ICT event in Asia and the second largest in the world…
The cloud computing market is booming because it offers organizations a way to scale their IT infrastructure without investing heavily in massive amounts of new hardware to do it. So Amazon is on to a good thing. At Computex, Amazon’s managing director of Amazon Web Services in Asia Pacific, Shane Owenby, told attendees how cloud computing has re-invented the world of IT…
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