Archive for April 2009
Announcing Amazon EC2 with IBM Pay by the Hour – News
On Amazon EC2 you can run many of the proven IBM platform technologies with which you’re already familiar, including IBM DB2, IBM Informix, IBM WebSphere sMash, IBM Lotus Web Content Management, and IBM WebSphere Portal Server. By choosing Amazon EC2, you can get started in either of two ways. You can pay by the hour only for what you use, through Amazon EC2 running IBM. Alternatively, you can bring many of your own IBM licenses to run on Amazon EC2. Either way, you can leverage Amazon EC2’s flexible and reliable environment to seamlessly integrate with features like Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Elastic IPs in both the US and EU Regions.
Cryptographers say cloud computing can be secured
SAN FRANCISCO — The move toward cloud computing may be inevitable, but that doesn’t mean the related security challenges aren’t avoidable.
According to a panel of cryptographers at the 2009 RSA Conference, cloud computing security issues are similar to those that come with any new technology, and in time security researchers will discover ways to better protect sensitive data in the cloud. More…
Oracle sun – Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems
The Oracle Corporation, the technology information company, announced Monday that it would acquire a rival, Sun Microsystems, for $9.50 a share, or about $7.4 billion. View…
