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Amazon launches virtual desktops as it assails private clouds as 'stopgap solutions'

2013-11-13 21:58:13| InfoWorld: Top News

Private clouds offer "none of the benefits" of a robust public cloud, and are only a stopgap solution perpetuated by "old-guard" IT companies such as IBM, said Andy Jassy, Amazon senior vice president who heads up Amazon Web Services. "If you're not planning on using the public cloud in some significant fashion, you will be at a significant competitive disadvantage," Jassy told a packed auditorium of nearly 9,000 IT pros Wednesday in Las Vegas, for the opening keynote of the AWS Reinvent conference.

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API: EPA Must Provide Stopgap On RFS Until Congress Can Act

2013-10-29 01:56:08| oilandgasonline News Articles

EPA must lower increasing ethanol mandates in its Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) proposal for 2014 in order to protect consumers and our economy from a looming disaster until Congress can repeal the program once and for all, API Downstream Group Director Bob Greco told reporters in a conference call recently:

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