Briefly: Vocus opens AWS pipe; Fast 50; Twitter IPO
Vocus Communications says Vocus Cloud Connect gives New Zealand businesses a secure, dedicated connection to Amazon Web Services in Sydney. The business-class service launched Thursday. It is pitched...
View ArticleBig demand for Vocus AWS service
Vocus NZ sales manager Steven Stanford says there is a high level of interest in his company’s Cloud Connect product which can link New Zealand companies directly to Amazon’s data centre in Australia....
View ArticleBriefly: iPhone 5S, 5C in NZ; Amazon Web Services
Apple has yet to update its NZ website Apple says the iPhone 5s and 5c go on sale in New Zealand on October 25. Prices are lower than anticipated. The 16GB iPhone 5c will sell here for $900, prices...
View ArticleAmazon AWS unit pushes for NZ start-up business
Call it the Xero effect if you like. A tech boom is underway in New Zealand. The start-up scene has been active since Rod Drury and Xero showed it is possible to take on the world with a locally...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure: Cloud for the rest of us
Cloud computing is great. Yet anything beyond Dropbox, OneDrive or iCloud can be daunting for those of us who aren’t IT professionals. While Amazon is the market leader at selling cloud services to...
View ArticleAmazon, Apple: A tale of two tech giants
Last week Amazon Web Services announced an operating profit of US$265 million for the quarter. It was the first time Amazon broke out the figures for its cloud business. Meanwhile Apple turned in...
View ArticleSpeed, cost behind Xero move to PaaS, AWS
Rod Drury’s name wasn’t mentioned on the agenda for the AWS Auckland Summit. So it was interesting to see the Xero founder and CEO chatting to the other keynote speakers as media representatives filed...
View ArticleHelion public cloud: HP knows when to hold, when to fold
You’ve got to know when to hold ’em and know when to fold ’em. Know when to walk away. Know when to run. HP did the right thing telling customers it will “sunset” its Helion public cloud service in...
View ArticleCloud is booming, spending up 20 percent
At GigaOm Barb Darrow reports Cloud boom is on for real, researcher says. The story quotes researcher IHS Technology which says spending on cloud infrastructure and services will climb 20 percent in...
View ArticleThe siren song of private clouds
Big companies — the computer industry calls them ‘enterprises’ probably after watching too much Star Trek — want cloud computing. They get the basic premise. Cloud computing replaces expensive...
View ArticleIntellipath adds Australian scale with Nextgen deal
A partnership with Australian national network provider Nextgen has expanded Intellipath’s reach creating what may be the region’s largest bandwidth-on-demand service. Intellipath previously only...
View Article“Still early days” at AWS
Amazon Web Services has made huge progress in a short time. The business is only ten years old. And yet It doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus[1]. At least AWS dominates the narrow worlds of...
View ArticleBig demand for Vocus AWS service
Vocus NZ sales manager Steven Stanford says there is a high level of interest in his company’s Cloud Connect product which can link New Zealand companies directly to Amazon’s data centre in Australia....
View ArticleWork starts on Hawaiki – a faster, fatter pipe to USA
Remi Galasso’s dream to build the Hawaiki trans-Pacific cable became a reality earlier today. Prime Minister John Key and Communications Minister Amy Adams joined other dignitaries to help Galasso get...
View ArticleAmazon, Apple: A tale of two tech giants
Last week Amazon Web Services announced an operating profit of US$265 million for the quarter. It was the first time Amazon broke out the figures for its cloud business. Meanwhile Apple turned in...
View ArticleSpeed, cost behind Xero move to PaaS, AWS
Rod Drury’s name wasn’t mentioned on the agenda for the AWS Auckland Summit. So it was interesting to see the Xero founder and CEO chatting to the other keynote speakers as media representatives filed...
View ArticleHelion public cloud: HP knows when to hold, when to fold
You’ve got to know when to hold ’em and know when to fold ’em. Know when to walk away. Know when to run. HP did the right thing telling customers it will “sunset” its Helion public cloud service in...
View ArticleIntellipath adds Australian scale with Nextgen deal
A partnership with Australian national network provider Nextgen has expanded Intellipath’s reach creating what may be the region’s largest bandwidth-on-demand service. Intellipath previously only...
View Article“Still early days” at AWS
Amazon Web Services has made huge progress in a short time. The business is only ten years old. And yet It doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus[1]. At least AWS dominates the narrow worlds of...
View ArticleWork starts on Hawaiki – a faster, fatter pipe to USA
Remi Galasso’s dream to build the Hawaiki trans-Pacific cable became a reality earlier today. Prime Minister John Key and Communications Minister Amy Adams joined other dignitaries to help Galasso get...
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