[TechRepublic] AWS re:Invent highlights more features, more services, lower prices

The Enterprise Cloud TechRepublic Member | December 03, 2012

Amazon Web Services re:Invent Conference: More features, more services, lower prices Thoran Rodrigues attended this week's AWS re:Invent Conference in Las Vegas. Here's a roundup of the news and announcements from Amazon that will be good for cloud consumers as a whole. Read more Resource of the day Live Webcast: Getting the Most from Virtual Teams Join us for an interactive webinar that can change how your company operates - and how you manage for years to come. Additional TechRepublic resources   Cloud backup and disaster recovery: The Zetta approach Nick Hardiman takes a look at an online backup and recovery system that uses software agents to copy your data directly to a cloud file storage system. Here's how it works. Read more Using the power of the cloud as a platform for attack The battle between cloud service providers and the criminals who would abuse those services to launch attacks on others is well underway. Read more Choosing a Big Data vendor After establishing your core Big Data team in-house, it might be time to bring in an outside vendor for assistance. Will Kelly offers tips on choosing a Big Data vendor. Read more Kurzweil: Your brain will connect directly to the cloud within 30 years By the 2030s or 2040s, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil envisions micro-computers embedded non-invasively in the brain that will act as an interface to a "cloud" of storage and processing power. Read more Capture content using CaptureToCloud for the iPad Will Kelly takes a look at the CaptureToCloud iOS app, which lets you capture web content directly from your iPad. Read more Featured multimedia   Windows 8 navigation tips that will help you forget the Start Menu Greg Shultz shows you several techniques you can use to launch your Desktop applications in Windows 8 that don't involve a Start Menu. View on site Desktop Wallpaper: Winter landscapes Here is a gallery of public domain winter landscape photographs to get you into the holiday spirit. View on site Today's recommended downloads Securing Your Software for the Mobile Application Market: The Latest Code Signing Technology (Symantec) Live Webcast: Emerging Customer Support Channels - The Who, What and Why (Citrix Online) LogMeIn: Instant, Anywhere Remote Support (LogMeIn) The Importance of Managing Privileged Accounts (Quest Software, now a part of Dell) A New Day: How Smarter Computing can Grow Capacity on Flat Costs (IBM) Connect with TechRepublic Raspberry Pi: Inside the Pi factory This TechRepublic photo gallery offers you a look at how Raspberry Pi boards are put together at a factory in the UK. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Big Data Analytics The Editor's Daily Picks Google in the Enterprise Cracking Open 10 Things

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