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  • Amazon Adds Per-Second Billing for Some EC2 Instances

    Amazon Adds Per-Second Billing for Some EC2 Instances

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    Amazon’s per-second billing is now available for some types of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. Announced back in September, this billing model change went into effect on 2 October. Amazon Web Services (AWS) first launched their EC2 service in 2006. The success of AWS and cloud computing in general proves that there are uses for…

  • Avere Announces Software Updates, Adds Virtual FXT Filer

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    Today Avere Systems announced an update to the AOS software (version 4.5) that runs on their FXT Edge Filers. The big news in this version is the addition of a Virtual Edge Filer, the vFXT. Avere’s FXT works by placing an Edge Filer close to the end-user clients. The Edge Filer uses a global name…