Amazon Web Services, AWS Update

Offerings and Pricing --

Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS Update - New M3 Sizes & Features + Reduced EBS Prices + Reduced S3 Prices: "AWS Update - New M3 Sizes & Features + Reduced EBS Prices + Reduced S3 Prices I've got lots of great AWS news today! Here's a summary: M3 instances are now available in two additional sizes. Several additional features are now available for newly launched M3 instances. Prices for S3 storage have been reduced by up to 22%. Prices for EBS Standard volume storage and I/O operations have been reduced by up to 50%. Let's take a closer look! M3 Instance Type News We announced the M3 instance type a little over a year ago. Our customers and our partners have found them to be very attractive. For example, a wide variety of top software is available to run on M3, with offerings such as aiScaler, Syncsort, Riak, NITRC available with 1-click deployment on AWS Marketplace The M3 is our Second Generation General-purpose EC2 instance type. They have a balance of CPU power, RAM, and networking capacity that is suitable for a very wide variety of applications. Today we are making the M3 instance type even more useful, with support for two new instance sizes and some new features." (read more at link above)

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Hosting Provider Savvis, CenturyLink Technology Solutions

Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, SunGard, Verizon, and now . . .

Hosting Provider Savvis Is Now CenturyLink Technology Solutions | TechCrunch: "... CenturyLink seeks to leverage its customer base, which still uses hosting for the most part. But by calling Savvis “CenturyLink Technology Solutions,” the company is using terminology that has a deep association with the IT of old, not the new application-centric infrastructure that cloud providers offer. Instead, it’s a general term meant to show customers that CenturyLink offers end-to-end solutions. CenturyLink Cloud will have a deeper emphasis on cloud services stemming from its roots in providing infrastructure services and sophisticated orchestration to ... But there are some strong competitors that the company has to face. Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, SunGard and Verizon are all tough competitors with deep infrastructures of their own that will be selling their own innovations in the changing app economy."

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The Cloud, Cybersecurity Threats, Malware

Cyber-Criminals Turn to Big U.S. Web Hosts to Spread Malware
eWeek - Two studies, one produced by Cisco and the other by Solutionary, find that cyber-attackers increasingly use popular U.S. cloud services as a ...(read more at link above)

Cloud-Based Security Threats Present Challenges and ...
Australian Techworld - Cloud computing has fundamentally changed the way businesses and ... While the cloud has delivered a multitude of benefits to technical and ... (read more at link above)

Cloud Computing in the Financial Institutions 2014 to be held in Xiamen
What's on Xiamen - Under this background, Noppen will launch its Cloud Computing in the Financial Institutions 2014 in Xiamen during April 24-25, 2014. For further ...

Store your stuff for free: how to make the most of free cloud storage
TechRadar UK - In Depth There's terabytes of free cloud storage out there. .... as we're all about the free storage and many of these cloud services offer you ways to ...

Sholay (sort of) 3D
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Is Your Business 100% Ready for the New Era ofCloud Computing and Big Data? The Only Enterprise IT Event in 2013 Covering the Entire Scope of ...

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Hosting on Amazon S3, CloudFront

How To: Hosting on Amazon S3 with CloudFront — PaulStamatiou.com: "A few weeks ago my DNS provider Zerigo sent an email stating that due to recent infrastructure upgrades they would need to raise their prices. For my meager DNS needs that ended up being a huge price hike: from $39 per year to $25 per month1. Prices were set to take effect a month later. I decided to put my current dev work — designing and building new photoblog functionality to showcase my Japan trip photos — on hold to move away from Zerigo . . . " (read more at link above)

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Google Tiered Channel Program, Google Cloud Platform

Google Prepping Tiered Channel Program For Google Cloud Platform: "Google plans to expand its channel business with the introduction sometime this year of a tiered channel program to all potential channel partners for its Google Cloud Platform. Chris Rimer, global head of partners for Google Cloud Platform, on Monday told solution providers his company plans to roll out the program some time this year to make it easy for channel partners to either work directly with Google or via other IT vendors in partnership with Google. Rimer unveiled the plans at the Red Hat Cloud Symposium, a one-day event held in Scottsdale, Ariz., in advance of this week's Red Hat Partner Conference. The Red Hat Cloud Symposium also brought executives of both Google and Amazon Web Services on stage in separate pitches for channel mindshare...."

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Microsoft Partners Uproar, Cloud Sales Commission Cuts

Some partners are so angry about having their fees cut that they're prepared to sell competing products, like Google Apps. One partner told CRN he's planning to change his business to be less dependent on Microsoft partner fees. (source infra)

Microsoft Partners In Uproar Over Cloud Sales Commission Cuts: "Even partners that don't have a direct financial stake in the Advisor EA Deploy program told CRN the fee cuts are a troubling sign. "Microsoft has been preaching that the cloud was going to level the playing field [for partners], but nothing is going to stop them from cutting margins," said one disillusioned partner who has been selling Microsoft cloud services since the Business Online Productivity Suite was launched in 2008. "The channel needs consistency, but Microsoft has changed the payout and commission structure four times in two years," said another disgruntled partner. "How can a partner build a go-to-market model around a payout plan that keeps changing?"..."

Microsoft's late fixing Windows, but ahead on the cloud | Microsoft windows - InfoWorld: "... The point is that the center of computing has already moved to the cloud, and which device you use is becoming secondary to the computing experience. Microsoft, compared to all other members of the old guard, is in the best position to be a huge player in cloud computing ... The challenge for Microsoft is to pull all those cloud offerings into coherent, customizable packages that make sense for customers. Currently, just finding information about them requires surfing dozens of Microsoft websites. Of course, Microsoft partners will need to play a role in pulling together those solutions as well, and as usual there are rough edges in many of Microsoft's offerings that will need to ironed out...."

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IBM Invests $1 Billion in Cloud Computing

IBM Invests $1B in Cloud Computing
Voice of America
U.S.-based computer giant IBM says it plans to invest more than $1 billion into a group focused on research and development of cloud-based ...

Voice of America

Cloud computing company, VEXXHOST, announces it's new ...
Greatresponder.com
One of the leading OpenStack cloud computing providers, VEXXHOST, has announced it's new partnership with Cloud66, a leading Ruby ...

Aereo Case Headed to Supreme Court; Cloud Computing in the ...
Disruptive Competition Project
This case is critically important not only to Aereo, but to the entire cloudcomputing and cloud storage industry. The landmark Second Circuit decision ...

Wall Street Journal

Edward Snowden and the Power of Cloud Computing...
Nextgov
The announcement earlier this week that IBM will soon offer Watson Supercomputer cloud services to interested businesses drives home the point...

eWEEK at 30: Salesforce Shows Enterprises How Cloud Computing ...
eWeek
An ever-increasing number of enterprises continue to move to public cloudservices, software development platforms in the cloud, as well as cloud ...

eWeek

Cloud storage meets old-school archiving with IDrive's new Safe ...
Engadget
An internet connection is usually the only thing between you and your remotely stored data. Not with IDrive's new "Safe" service, however, which is a ...

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NSA Cloud Spying Concerns, IBM Promotes Encryption

IBM Promotes Encryption Patent Amid NSA, Cloud Spying Concerns

Talkin' Cloud
Cloud services providers (CSPs) are battling to keep data safe. ... that aims to further protect data privacy and strengthen cloud computing security.

Talkin' Cloud

Cloud computing 2014: Moving to a zero-trust security model

Computerworld Australia
Cloud computing 2014: Moving to a zero-trust security model ... Despite some reports of slowing sales of cloud services by U.S. vendors to overseas... For instance, Google Cloud Storage now automatically encrypts all new data ...

Fars News Agency

Survey: IT Managers Tackle Cloud Apps Procurement

Talkin' Cloud
Instead of ignoring or fighting the cloud services wave, enterprise IT ... As organizations of all sizes adopt cloud computing services, many are ...

Talkin' Cloud

Corelynx Successfully Implements Its Open Cloud Architecture ...

DigitalJournal.com
Corelynx has announced that all its cloud services and software will be ... Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) open source cloud computing platform.

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Cloud Services, Data, the Public Sector

A cloud future: the public sector's new mentality to data

The Information Daily
In its Worldwide and Regional Public IT Cloud Services forecast, IDC predicts that public spending on cloud services will top $100 billion by 2017, with ...

The Information Daily

5 cloud computing takeaways for 2013

InfoWorld
Why wouldn't you want a dynamically scalable infrastructure and self-service provisioning? That's thecloud model in a nutshell -- and it has proven ...

Cloud storage startup Dropbox looking to woo corporates

Economic Times
It has tied up with Salesforce.com and Dell and has seen strong growth in the space. Dropbox also plans to expand in India in the next two or three ...

Economic Times

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Cloud Computing, New Algorithms Reduce Carbon Cost

New algorithms reduce the carbon cost of cloud computing — Tech ...

Derrick Harris
New algorithms reduce the carbon cost of cloud computing ... Amazon's cloud services helped jump start a lot of entrepreneurial activity and now its ...
Gigaom

New Algorithms Reduce the Carbon Cost of Cloud Computing ...

Lily Hay Newman
The computing cloud may feel intangible to users, but it has a definite physical form and a corresponding carbon footprint. Facebook's data centers, for ...
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content

2014 Forecast for Cloud Computing

IDG News Service
Cloud computing has proven to be one of the great disruptive technologies of our time, and the effects of its increasing adoption and maturation will ...

CIO

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Google Account Security Options for Businesses

Google Reminds Businesses of Account-Security Options as 2014 ...
eWeek
Google wants enterprise users to know about the tools that are available to ...As 2013 comes to a close, Google is working to remind enterprise ... AppleiOS smartphones and tablets using the Google Apps Admin console, he wrote.

eWeek

Cloud computing 2014: Moving to a zero-trust security model
Computerworld
Another industry group, the Cloud Security Alliance, predicted a similar ...Despite some reports of slowing sales of cloud services by U.S. vendors to ...For instance, Google Cloud Storage now automatically encrypts all new data ...

SC Magazine

Cloud Computing Is Now Just Computing
Midsize Insider
The term "cloud" has been an IT catchphrase for a short period although the types of services that define this technology have been in use for some ...

Midsize Insider

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Enterprise, Reliance on Cloud Computing, Avoidance of Government Intervention

Enterprise In 2013: Enterprise Ascends Into The Cloud

ReadWrite
Enterprise In 2013: Enterprise Ascends Into The Cloud ... with a heavy reliance on cloud computing and avoidance of government intervention. ... on how the new boss will be approaching key technologies including cloud services, ...

ReadWrite

Cloud Computing Adoption Grows, Employees Lack Skills

Talkin' Cloud
A new survey reveals an increase in information technology (IT) spending, as well as a stronger focus on public and private cloud-enabling ...

Talkin' Cloud

Report: Community Cloud Market Worth $2.49B by 2018

Talkin' Cloud
Cloud Services ... A new study revealed that the community cloud market will be worth $2.49 ... The report says the community cloud market is estimated to grow from ... The IT research firm MarketsandMarkets that released the study said community cloud technologies are built around cloud computing ...

Talkin' Cloud

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Cloud Computing Lessons, Federal Agencies

Cloud Computing: Lessons from Federal Agencies

Midsize Insider
Cloud computing is growing in use at federal agencies, according to a new survey ... choosing to transform their IT infrastructures with cloud services.

Midsize Insider

Top 15 Government Technology Stories of 2013

InformationWeek
If a few words could sum up 2013 for the government technology community, they might be surveillance, robots, security, cloud computing, mobility, ...

Lack of Cloud Computing Skills May Hamper Adoption

Midsize Insider
There has also been some troubling news, however, concerning the growth of the cloud and a resulting cloud computing skills gap that could seriously ...

Midsize Insider

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Cloud Predictions for 2014

10 Cloud Predictions for 2014
BusinessNewsDaily
As indicated by the massive surge in users and the slew of cloud vendors and service providers now available, cloud computing went from being just ...
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BusinessNewsDaily

OpenStack push grows, Microsoft and Amazon square off
V3.co.uk
Cloud computing continued its inexorable spread during 2013. ... more confident about adopting cloud services for some IT services this year, the ...

V3.co.uk

Report: MSPs Move Toward Becoming Public IaaS Cloud Providers
MSPmentor
Transformation to IaaS cloud computing model is starting to show significant momentum as MSPs and carriers are including IaaS cloud in their service ...

MSPmentor

2013 witnessed growth of advanced technology solutions such as ...
TelecomTiger
Tata Communications said that the year 2013 witnessed the growth of advanced technology solutions such as cloud computing, smart devices and ...

TelecomTiger

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