Backblaze partners with Vultr cloud, launches Amazon AWS rival

By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Backup company Backblaze has launched a cloud computing service with Vultr, intending to provide developers with a lower cost alternative to Amazon’s S3 and EC2 web services.Backblaze has partnered with Vultr to offer cloud computingThrough the new service, Backblaze and Vultr users can run applications with “virtualized cloud compute and bare metal resources.” The companies say that their new service is simpler to use, and addresses the typically “disproportionately huge” bandwidth costs that smaller companies face….

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Microsoft to hold Surface Pro announcement event on Sept. 22

By news@appleinsider.com (Wesley Hilliard) Microsoft says that it will hold an event on September 22, and although the announcement features few details, the keynote will likely focus on new Surface products.Microsoft event announced for September 22A tweet announcing the event shows what appears to be a new Surface tablet product. There is very little information about the event, and Microsoft’s invite link takes you to a “…

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