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Amazon's Growing Threat to H-P, Dell and Oracle

At any given moment, Netflix Inc. (NFLX) is serving up thousands if not millions of videos online that are hosted in a big data center that the company's 33 million subscribers couldn't care less about as long as those shows run immediately on demand.While Netflix may be the face for providing its subscribers access to movies such as "The Hunger Games" and TV shows like "Mad Men," it's Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) actually streaming that content to their screens. And the e-commerce giant has gone well beyond movie streaming, having used its massive technology backbone and expertise to solve the cloud computing needs of many large and small enterprises.As such, Amazon has quickly become a significant force in the market for corporate IT services, where it now competes against big technology names like Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) , Dell Inc. (DELL) and Oracle Corp. (ORCL)--to name a few.Just last week, Andy Jassy, senior vice president of Amazon Web Services, gave attendees at an AWS Summit in S...

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