Almost 3,000 partners hear what they want to hear as virtualisation god heads for the clouds

Almost 3,000 partners hear what they want to hear as virtualisation god heads for the clouds
When is 'free delivery' really free delivery Ad watchdog considers
Vendors begin to refocus their product lines and consumers hold off on purchases
Amazon Web Services, Brocade, Cisco, IBM, Oracle and VMware products among those available
Amazon asks Kindle Fire 7 and Kindle Fire Kids Edition owners to stop using their chargers and apply for a replacement
AWS recently announced that it was building data centres to serve the on-shore data needs of UK customers
CMM tool ensures AWS EC2 servers only work when a company's users do
Closer proximity of data centres is good news for UK MSPs in the channel
AWS also reduces some data storage prices
Customers in nine of AWS’ global regions will be able to use Splunk to support IT operations, application delivery, security and compliance
New programmes and competencies introduced as worldwide network reaches 8,000 partners
Undercutting Amazon Web Services by 65 percent is the aim and the claim
Vision wants partners to do a Double Take when it comes to cloud services
CloudStack, OpenStack, Xen and KVM not provoking mass interest for end-users, Opsview finds
Strong pressure from heavyweight lobbyists over the planned EU Privacy Laws is being resisted by Viviane Reding
Data crunching on-demand goes on trial at AWS data centre in North Virginia USA
Amazon is planning to wipe out the traditional suppliers of cloud services in the UK in a price war which will lower the cost of the cloud for many companies.
A few incidents but nothing serious
Virgin escapes watchdog's bite
Reveals UK sales figures for the first time
Select committee angered at "pretend ignorance", as Amazon claims it is not based in the UK
Amazon's has not been explaining if its third-party Marketplace resellers are VAT registered and it is costing business buyers.
Analysts reveal iPad mini margins
1,000 jobs created as Royal Mail modernises
iPad Mini has more competition than Cupertino's used to
Grapevine gets going
But retail world says new ideas are nothing new
Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD to hit arrive October 25th
Plans get the thumbs up from David Cameron
Apple supplier relationship is key to strong UK sales