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Cloud cost control for your AWS account

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:02:59 GMT

CloudRows delivers cost control for your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. It enables you to be sure you are operating within your IT budget, and notifies you before a budget exception is about to occur.Fully-hosted, you don't have to install anything in order to get started. Upon signup, CloudRows starts to monitor your AWS activity logs directly from Amazon. Additionally, Using CloudRows has no impact on your existing IT setup, since the AWS activity logs are analyzed and processed on the CloudRows server. Try it!

Cloud Computing (and Azure) - Right for your site?

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:16:02 GMT

A quick overview of cloud computing options and benefits from a web hosting standpoint.

Windows Azure is born

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:46:12 GMT

Ray Ozzie announces the new new for the new Windows-in-the-cloud.

Amazon EC2 running Windows & SQL Server now in BETA

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:23:09 GMT

Amazon releases the public beta of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server, providing an environment for deploying applications using the Microsoft Web Platform, including ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, and IIS. The Amazon EC2 environment can be managed using web service APIs, including using a C# library that wraps the APIs. Pricing for Amazon EC2 running Windows Server begins at $0.125 per compute hour.

Microsoft Strata on Windows Weekly ep. 78

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:43:06 GMT

Windows Strata: Microsoft's cloud computing platform gets a name. It's Mesh?

Will Cloud Computing Rain on Microsoft?

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:53:12 GMT

Virtualization and cloud computing are both disruptions that threaten core Microsoft strengths. Could Hyper-V be a mere attempt to cannibalize virtualization as a way to slow its progress?

Cloud Computing and Security

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:50:58 GMT

What impact will cloud computing have on IT operations and security? The author suggests that it will take a high profile cloud breach event to get the network security industry back on track,