Microsoft Azure enters price war with Amazon Web Services

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8 ways Microsoft could improve Windows 8 Online scams emerge following Boston Marathon bombing Network World Daily News PM April 16, 2013 Share this email Microsoft Azure enters price war with Amazon Web Services Microsoft is dropping prices for Azure Cloud Services and for Azure virtual machines to match those of Amazon Web Services and implies that it will cut the prices of other Azure offerings as well to match those of AWS. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. 8 ways Microsoft could improve Windows 8 2. Online scams emerge following Boston Marathon bombing 3. Software testing at the end of the world (almost) 4. Boston techies on way to raising $50K to support Boston Marathon bombing victims 5. Google discloses tech specs and developer API for Glass 6. Oracle shipping 128 patches for apps, database and middleware 7. Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop 8. Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking IBM mainframes, stealing money 9. 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READ MORE WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Considerations for Combating Modern Threats Download this White paper to learn how a new datacenter architecture based on F5's Application Delivery Firewall combats modern attacks while reducing capex. Learn More Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop Merging the worlds of big data and cloud computing, Red Hat, Hortonworks and Hadoop integrator Mirantis are jointly building a software program, called Savanna, that will make it easier to deploy Apache Hadoop on an OpenStack cloud service. READ MORE Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking IBM mainframes, stealing money Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was charged with hacking the IBM mainframe of Logica, a Swedish IT firm that provided tax services to the Swedish government, and the IBM mainframe of the Swedish Nordea bank, the Swedish public prosecutor said on Tuesday. 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