Hundreds of Business Ideas Reviewed, Seven Finalists Pitched Panel of VC’s and Amazon Business Leaders, and One Was Chosen
Amazon Web Services LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that Yieldex is the winner of the second annual Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge. Yieldex, a company providing forecasting for online advertising inventory, will [...]

Capgemini launches Cloud Computing Center of Excellence delivering innovation for the Enterprise market
Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, today announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), extending its Outsourcing portfolio with Cloud Computing services. Capgemini’s new Center of Excellence, focused on [...]

Amazon’s Customers Can Access and Buy Top Deals Directly from their Mobile Phones
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is giving customers easy and convenient access to low prices, great deals and helpful holiday tips with new features like Text Alerts for Daily Deals (www.amazon.com/gp/anywhere/sms/goldbox). Customers can now sign up for a daily text alert, featuring the [...]

Sylantro’s Push to Amazon Cloud provides an Application Feature Server in a Hosted Cloud Environment
Sylantro Systems, the leading provider of multiplay application feature servers for converged communication applications, today announced compatibility of its Synergy platform with the Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). By placing its Synergy platform and Synapps Web Services on [...]

UniCluster Open Source Software proves to be a Superior Alternative for HPC Users
Grid.org, the online community for open-source cluster and grid software, announced today that their open source cluster software stack, UniCluster, has exceeded 5,000 downloads by the HPC community.
Grid.org, launched in November 2007, was developed to provide a single aggregation point for [...]

CloudStatus Provides Free, Real-Time Performance Information for Amazon Web Services
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Open source web infrastructure management provider Hyperic Inc., (Velocity Booth #6), today launched the beta of Hyperic CloudStatus (www.cloudstatus.com), the first service to provide an independent view of the health and performance of the most popular cloud on the Internet, Amazon Web Services (AWS). [...]

From $1/day, new Morph AppSpace subscription service for Ruby on Rails will provide end-to-end deployment, delivery, and management of web applications; free developers’ time and encourage software creativity
Morph Labs announces the availability of a virtual application infrastructure subscription that starts at $1 per day. The service will allow independent software vendors (ISVs) and entrepreneurs [...]

Online Retailer’s Newest Category Focuses on Helping Entrepreneurs Start, Manage and Grow Their Businesses
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today unveiled a new category store, the Amazon All Business Center (www.amazon.com/allbusinesscenter), aimed at helping entrepreneurs find solutions to fit the needs of their small and medium businesses. The store serves as a one-stop shopping destination to help [...]

Amazon EC2 Also Opens Beta to All Software Developers and Businesses
Amazon Web Services LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced new flexibility for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) by introducing multiple instance types for Amazon EC2 developers. Customers can now choose compute instances up to eight times as powerful as those [...]