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Wall Street Beat: Vendors brace for the worst

Despite strong third-quarter performances from some vendors, cautious forecasts from companies as diverse as Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, EMC, Texas Instruments and Yahoo focused attention on what are bound to be rough waters over the next few months.

| News | Business | 10/23/08 at 7:51 pm |


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Wall Street Beat: Vendors brace for the worst

Despite strong third-quarter performances from some vendors, cautious forecasts from companies as diverse as Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, EMC, Texas Instruments and Yahoo focused attention on what are bound to be rough waters over the next few months.

| News | Business | 10/23/08 at 7:50 pm |


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Amazon to offer volume discounts for S3

Amazon's AWS cloud computing subsidiary will institute a new tiered pricing structure for its hosted storage service that includes price cuts for high-volume customers.

| News | SaaS | Storage | 10/09/08 at 3:04 pm |


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Get your head around SaaS

You may avoid putting your data into Amazon.com Inc.'s S3 cloud-based storage repository. You may eschew its EC2 on-demand compute services. But if your supply chain partners or IT services suppliers utterly depend on SaaS for their operations, you do, too.

| Feature | SaaS | 08/26/08 at 12:28 pm |


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