Bill Vass of Amazon Web Services unveils the Amazon Snowball this morning. (Via webcast) Amazon Web Services this morning announced a new way for its customers to get large amounts of data into the ...

Amazon surprised developers today with the launch of a device dubbed as Snowball. Snowball is a new physical appliance that will allow Amazon Web Service users to ship huge amounts of data for import ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today showed off Amazon Snowball, a 45-pound piece of hardware for storing 50TB of data that can be shipped to AWS to be stored in the cloud. This is a pretty wild thing for ...

Moving a lot of data to the could is a daunting task. To help companies with terabytes of info migrate to off-site storage, Amazon has introduced Snowball — which moves the information physically. The ...

To become more agile in the Big Data world of digital business, many companies are looking toward the cloud. However, the pesky laws of physics work against moving the massive amounts of data that ...

A new service that allows Amazon to transfer mass data to the cloud without concern for network bandwidthAmazon SnowballWe announced. Amazom responded by developing dedicated storage to solve the ...

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It seems paradoxical that you'd have to ship cloud data, but plenty of companies do -- it's sometimes faster for them to send a courier than to wait days for a massive upload to finish. And Amazon ...

If there is one thing we can be certain of, in this era of big data and the vast scaling up of the Internet of Things, is that the need for data storage (and plenty of it) is only going to grow, and ...

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Amazon won’t charge for importing the data from Snowball into S3, but it will charge $0.03 per GB for export. After the user sets up a Snowball job on AWS, Amazon will ship them a Snowball appliance.