Google Cloud, Microsoft, RedHat, IBM, Docker, Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform Blog: Welcome Microsoft, RedHat, IBM, Docker and more to the Kubernetes community: "Kubernetes is an open source manager for Docker containers, based on Google’s years of experience using containers at Internet scale. Today, Microsoft, RedHat, IBM, Docker, Mesosphere, CoreOS and SaltStack are joining the Kubernetes community and will actively contribute to the project. Each company brings unique strengths, and together we will ensure that Kubernetes is a strong and open container management framework for any application and in any environment - whether in a private, public or hybrid cloud. Our shared goal is to allow a broad range of developers to take advantage of container technologies. Kubernetes was built from the ground up as a lean, extensible and portable framework for managing Docker workloads. It lets customers manage their applications the way that Google manages hyper-scale applications like Search and Gmail...." (read more at link above)

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Microsoft Azure, Cloud in a Box

Microsoft to try again to deliver an Azure 'cloud in a box' appliance | ZDNet: "... According to sources, customers and partners will order the coming appliances directly from Microsoft and Microsoft will be providing them with direct support. I haven't heard anything about intended pricing, but these appliances will be aimed, at least for now, at partners and large business customers only, sources said. When Microsoft announced its original plans for Windows Azure Appliances in 2010, officials said that OEMs including HP, Dell and Fujitsu would have Windows Azure Appliances in production and available to customers by the end of 2010. Fujitsu ended up introducing an Azure Appliance product in August 2011; the other two OEM partners never seemed to do so at all (best I could tell)...." (read more at link above)

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Google Cloud Storage Gets Closer to Free

With Google Offer, Cloud Storage Gets Closer to Free - Digits - WSJ: "... Research firm Gartner in March estimated companies’ spending on outsourced computing services like those provided by Google and Amazon would rise 45% this year to $13.3 billion. Panzura, the startup working with Google, helps companies store data remotely in Amazon, Google and Microsoft data centers and provides tools that let them access the files from multiple locations with existing software programs. The Google offer covers access from one location using a free Panzura service. If companies need access from multiple locations, they have to pay Panzura, although Google will still charge nothing for the storage for a year. “This is a way for customers to try something new, especially if they have had some kind of aversion to using the cloud in the past,” said Chris Rimer, global head of partners at Google’s Cloud Platform business. He said Google wants to encourage businesses to move more of their computing to the cloud. “We want to make sure potential customers are not worried about cost as a barrier to entry,” Rimer said... " (read more at link above)

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Android Auto, OnLive, Cloud Virtualization

From Android Auto to OnLive: how video is becoming the secret glue of connected devices — Tech News and Analysis: "...OnLive has also been looking to bring the same technology to other areas. The company is also offering a cloud desktop service to consumers, which makes it possible to run a Windows desktop and Microsoft Office apps on iPads and Android tablets, and has started to pitch its technology to enterprises that want to bring their apps to a wide variety of devices. Another company using the same approach is ActiveVideo, which pitches this kind of virtualization as a way for pay TV service operators to bring modern user interfaces and even apps to customers that haven’t gotten their cable box replaced for a couple of years. ActiveVideo works with Cablevision and Charter in the U.S., and recently helped Liberty Global to launch a YouTube app on legacy cable boxes in Hungary. Interest in cloud virtualization has been growing so much that Amazon even launched its own service, dubbed AppStream, in March. AppStream renders video games and other resource-intensive applications on Amazon’s servers, for which the company’s GPU instances come in handy, and then streams them as video streams to a wide variety of devices...."

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Cloud Computing, What is a Container

Cloud Computing Could Do More to Save the Planet Than Electric Cars | Enterprise | WIRED: "...What is a container? Basically, it’s a way of encapsulating software–wrapping it in a neat package so that it’s isolated from other software running on a computer operating system. If you use a container format that runs on many operating systems, this means you can easily move software applications from machine to machine–something that’s vitally important in the cloud computing world, where software is spread across hundreds and even thousands of servers. This is what Docker is trying to facilitate. But containers also provide what’s called “resource isolation.” This means is you can carefully control how much of a machine’s processing and memory resources are allocated to a particular container. And if you can do that, you can more efficiently squeeze many applications onto the same machine. “It’s kind of like slicing a cake,” says Pantheon’s David Strauss. “You can give each person a slice of cake. Some people can get a proportionally smaller piece and some people get a proportionally larger piece. But everybody gets cake.”..."

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Cloudian -- Not Everything Needs To Live In The Cloud

Cloudian Raises $24 Million Because Not Everything Needs To Live In “The Cloud” | TechCrunch: ".... The reason why Cloudian has been able to raise its cash — along with other hybrid storage offerings like Egnyte — is basically as a hedge against the idea of completely cloud-based storage. Not everyone wants everything to live in the “cloud” all the time. Companies have sensitive data that they’re loath to part with — and always will be goes the argument. So why not give them the flexibility to determine what is and what isn’t meant for public clouds, private clouds, or semi-public clouds. “Storage is going to be the substrate that allows you to move your data between and among all of these clouds,” says Tso."

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Video-streamed cloud virtualization

From Android Auto to OnLive: how video is becoming the secret glue of connected devices — Tech News and Analysis: "Video-streamed cloud virtualization is everywhere Android Audio is not the first platform to use video as a means for virtualization. One of the best-known examples is OnLive,  which renders video games in the cloud, allowing it to stream complex action shooters to legacy desktop computers, mobile devices and even TV streaming devices like the Vizio CoStar." (read more at link above)

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Amazon sues former employee for taking Google cloud job

Amazon sues former employee for taking Google cloud job, in new test of non-compete deals - GeekWire: "In the new case against Szabadi, Amazon is seeking a more specific injunction, preventing him “from engaging in any activities that directly or indirectly support any aspect of Google’s cloud computing business with partners or resellers.”"

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Containers, Cloud Computing, Saving the Planet

‘THE CONTAINERIZATION OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS IN THE AGE OF THE CLOUD WILL SAVE MORE CO2 EMISSIONS THAN ELECTRIC CARS.’ (source infra)

Cloud Computing Could Do More to Save the Planet Than Electric Cars | Enterprise | WIRED: "... Much like Pantheon, Google uses containers to run its own online services–from Search and Gmail to Google Maps–and according to the company, this has probably helped save it the cost of building an entire data center. Now, in an effort to bring this technology to others, it has already embraced containers on its cloud services–Google Compute Engine and Google App Engine–though it uses a hybrid model where containers exist alongside virtual machines. “Containers just let you get more out of your infrastructure–whether that infrastructure is a bare metal server or a hypervisor-encapsulated virtual machine,” says Craig Mcluckie, a product manager who oversees Google’s cloud services. “They let you get more out of your basic resources.”..." (read more at link above)

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Supreme Court Rejects Streaming of Broadcast TV, Cloud Services Next?

Supreme Court Rejects Streaming of Broadcast Television; Cloud Services Next?
The National Law Review
The Court specifically noted that it did not address "cloud computing, ... not commenting on cloud storage, it provided no rationale for this difference. (read more at link above)

Best- And Worst-Performing Cloud Computing Stocks June 27th To July 3rd And Year-To-Date
Forbes
The highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date when measured by share price gains are NetScout Systems NetScout Systems ...

The Legal Broadcast Network
Legal Broadcast Network (blog)
Aereo's business model uses cloud computing to deliver stored television signals that are gathered by individual antennas, one per customer.

Reinventing the PC and the Android
Inquirer.net
Cloud computing is another trend that's been gaining ground among consumers ... Apart from providing backup, cloud services can help with space ...

We won't spread ourselves too thin in India: Anand Sankaran
Business Standard
He talks to Itika Sharma Punit on the acceptance of cloud computing by ... the discussions were more about putting non-core functions on the cloud.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Knipple, CTO of EasyStreet (Part 4) | Sramana Mitra
By Sramana Mitra
Sramana Mitra: How does your customer base split up into those categories? What percentage of the customers are the big spenders? Steve Knipple: ...

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Google I/O 2014, Cloud Computing

Google I/O 2014: 5 Surprises For Investors - Seeking Alpha: ".... All Roads Lead to Google Cloud Platform: Google used to stand for simplicity. From the Google search engine home page to Google Apps, just about everything the company designed was simple, simple, simple to use. But in recent years, Google has started to suffer from complexity. The company has numerous platforms, developer initiatives and strategic directions. For developers and investors, too many platforms can wind up confusing or "stalling" a market and harming future growth. My Prediction: Google will continue to build, launch, kill and experiment with new platforms. But the ultimate goal is rather simple to explain. Each platform must either (a) drive more users to Google's search engine or (b) drive more IT workloads onto Google Cloud Platform. Generally speaking, Amazon Inc. Web Services and Microsoft's Azure dominate most of today's cloud discussions. But I believe Google Cloud Platform is coming on strong."

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Amazon Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services

Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels Talks Cloud Security | MIT Technology Review: "In the eight years since Amazon.com rolled out its cloud-computing business, Amazon Web Services, it has grown from a side project that gave scrappy startups cheap access to computing and online storage to a leader in the fast-growing market for remote computing and storage services. The research company Gartner recently estimated that AWS uses over five times as much computing capacity as its top 14 competitors combined. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has even predicted that AWS may one day be bigger than Amazon’s retail business..."

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Cloud Storage for Business, Google, Microsoft, Others

Google, Microsoft and Others Delve Deeper Into Cloud Storage for Businesses - NYTimes.com: "... Online digital storage, the repository of an increasing amount of our business and personal lives, is changing from being a small part of computing to the core way of selling corporations other kinds of cloud software and services. Soon, keeping your digital goods will also be the means for tech companies to understand who does what inside a business, just the way they understand consumers by watching what they do on the web. “Storage is where the stickiness is,” said Jeffrey Mann, vice president for research at Gartner. “It’s how they hold a customer. If they store your stuff, they get to know you better.”..."

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