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Amazon picks New York and Northern Virginia for HQ2
After running a year-long competition that drew interest from hundreds of cities and a number of states, Amazon has reportedly chosen New York City and Northern Virginia to split duty as its second headquarters.The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday that Amazon...
Content Distribution with Amazon CloudFront
Consider a situation in which you’ve developed a groundbreaking website, and you would like to share your content with the world. The problem is that your hosting provider is based in New York, and you’re concerned that a user from a different region, such as Europe...
Amazon’s cloud-computing business is looking to space
Amazon's public cloud could be bound for space. The cloud-computing division, Amazon Web Services, has been looking to hire people for an initiative involving space and satellite systems, though the company has never publicly discussed such a project. On Tuesday the...
Updated: Microsoft Azure’s southern U.S. data center goes down for hours, impacting Office365 and Active Directory customers
A look inside a Microsoft data center in Cheyenne, Wyo. (Microsoft Photo) On September 4, 2018 around 230am Pacific Time, Microsoft identified problems with the cooling systems in one part of its Texas data center complex, which caused a spike in temperature and...
VMware to Acquire Startup CloudHealth in Push to Grow Cloud Offerings
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - VMware Inc will acquire CloudHealth Technologies as part of the information technology company's continued push into cloud-based software services, the company announced on Monday. The Palo Alto, California, company will pay approximately...
The 12 Best Video Conferencing Apps for Teams
In 1884, eight years after Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson had the world's first phone call, industrialist John Jacob Astor IV published his predictions for the 21st century. Along with ill-fated predictions of steel-covered roads and the discovery an...