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Many Different Kinds Of Cloud, Very Big Piles Of Money

December 11, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

From the very beginning, there have been many kinds of clouds. Yes, Amazon Web Services started out with the Simple Storage Service (S3) object storage service in March 2006, and quickly followed it up with the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, and even though it cannot decide if service is part of a product name or not, AWS set the stage for how infrastructure services (IaaS) and then platform (PaaS) and application software (SaaS) services would be layered on top of raw, virtualized iron.

Many observers thought that in the end, everything would go PaaS and SaaS and IaaS would …
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Cloud Data Migration Service Launched For IBM i

October 3, 2018 Alex Woodie

Companies that want to move data from their IBM i server into the public cloud environment have a new solution available from Accur8 Software, which last week debuted a new data migration as a service (DMaaS) offering based on its integration platform.

According to Accur8 Software, the new Data Migration as a Service (DMaaS) offering provides a way for customers to migrate data from Db2 for i to public cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft and Amazon – as well as Google Cloud Compute, often cited as the third main public cloud platform …
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