Costing Cloud Data migrations
A cautionary tale about cloud data migrations as NASA moves its Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) storage onto an AWS Cloud.
Amazon’s Alexa magic - are we taking consumer-oriented magic too much for granted
Validating “magic” systems such as those based on Amazon Alexa is important – and non-trivial. Most important is that remediation processes are designed and tested.
AWS is profitable: What this means for the data centre business model
AWS has finally come out and started reporting its revenue and income figures separately from the rest of Amazon. In itself this hardly...
Amazon targets Exchange
AWS has announced Amazon WorkMail, a secure, managed cloud-based business email and calendaring service.
Amazon Kindle for people with disabilities
Kindle, the new electronic book reader from Amazon, will aid accessibility for some disability groups but most groups will have to wait for a future version.
Kindle and Surface new interfaces accessible? Usable?
Two new interfaces paradigms have been announced recently. What are the implications for accessibility? Surface is looked at in detail in this blog and Kindle in the next.
Software as a service – Salesforce.com’s new application shop
These days, even Bill Gates is bandying around the term 'software as a service'. But what does it mean?