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Amazon | May 01, 2013

Before turning to the world of cloud computing, let's pause to remember the crazy days of the 1970s when the science of the assembly line wasn't well-understood and consumers discovered that each purchase was something of a gamble. This was perhaps most true at the car dealer, where the quality of new cars was so random that buyers began to demand to know the day a car rolled off the assembly line. Cars built on Monday were said to be a bad risk because everyone was hung over, while cars slapped...

Asustek | July 15, 2013

Taiwan’s Asustek Computer (Asus) has announced that it will be partnering with the Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) under the Ministry of Economic Affairs to establish a new cloud computing services marketplace. The new platform, Taiwan Digital Mega Mall, will be set up to integrate Taiwan-based content providers, development tool providers and online content stores, and will initially be focused on providing content providers (publishers, game operators and software vendors) with the means t...

China Telecom | July 04, 2013

China Telecom on Wendesday announced the opening of a cloud computing datacentre in Inner Mongolia, close to Beijing, as part of a 17.5bn yuan (£1.8bn) investment in the technology.China Telecom’s Inner Mongolia Information Park consists of a cloud computing datacentre, call centres, warehouses, offices and living quarters for staff.The new information park is part of the first cloud computing base in the Inner Mongolia region and is one of six cloud computing datacentre projects being developed...

Deutsche Borse | July 02, 2013

Deutsche Borse AG, a stock exchange and subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group has announced what the company claims to be the world’s first vendor-neutral marketplace for cloud services.As of Q1 2014, companies in New York and Frankfurt will be able to purchase infrastructure as a service from multiple providers through the online marketplace, set up as an independent company called the Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange (DBCE), and Deutsche Börse will be managing all of the transactions on behalf o...