Rackspace Hosting acquires Slicehost and Jungle Disk
Rackspace Hosting is working hard on becoming a major player in the cloud computing market.
They have just acquired Slicehost which provides solutions to companies to host applications on virtual servers.
Rackspace has also acquired Jungle Disk which developers software that works in collaboration with Amazon S3.
Analysts believe that these [...]

Amazon S3 now cheaper for heavy users
Amazon has announced a change in the pricing for their Amazon S3 service.
The price update would only affect users who use a lot of resources on the service.
The service still charges a monthly fee of 15 cents per gigabyte of storage.
But the rates drop as the [...]

Amazon working on a content delivery service to compete with Akamai and Limelight
Amazon is one of the leading providers of cloud computing solutions and the company is now working on a content delivery service similar to Akamai and Limelight.
This new service would work with their Amazon Simple Storage System service.
The aim is to deliver [...]

Amazon Simple Storage Service comes to Europe
Amazon.com has now launched their Simple Storage Service (S3) data hosting services in the European market.
They are now offering this new service to customers in European Union to comply with European data protection laws.
This hosting mechanism provides the interested parties with similar infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run [...]