Cloud Technology, Healthcare Industry, Cyber Attacks (video)

Can Cloud Tech Transform the Healthcare Industry?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Imaging Advantage CEO Naseer Hashim discusses improving traditional healthcare with technology and the concerns of cyber attacks. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Trish Regan on “Street Smart.” (Source: Bloomberg 12/10)

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Sports, Social Media, The Cloud (video)

Sports Evolves for Social Media Through the Cloud : Video - Bloomberg:
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Grabyo Chief Executive Officer Gareth Capon discusses the impact from technology for both sports fans and content providers. He speaks with Francine Lacqua and Guy Johnson on Bloomberg Television’s “The Pulse.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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Google Cloud, Autoscaling, Google Compute Engine

From the Google Cloud Platform Blog: Autoscaling, welcome to Google Compute Engine:"The true power of cloud computing is unlocked when developers can build resilient and cost efficient applications that use just the right amount of resources necessary at any given time. So the same team that designed the scaling infrastructure for products like Google Search and Gmail have brought a highly anticipated feature toGoogle Compute Engine - intelligent horizontal Autoscaling. Today we are releasing the service into Beta, which means it is now available for everyone to start using. Autoscaling allows customers to build more cost effective and resilient applications. Using Compute Engine Autoscaling, you can ensure that exactly the right number of Compute Engine instances are available at any given time to handle your application’s workload. This saves you money when your application’s usage is low, and ensures your application is responsive when utilization is high. The Compute Engine Autoscaler is able to intelligently and dynamically scale the number of instances in response to different load conditions by defining the ideal utilization level of a group of Compute Engine instances. This means that when the actual utilization of your service increases or decreases, Autoscaler will detect the change and adjust the number of running instances to match. Autoscaler can respond to a number of different metrics such as CPU load, QPS on a HTTP Load Balancer and metrics defined using the Cloud Monitoring service...." (read more at link above)


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Amazon AWS, Massive Scale, Custom Network Gear

A Rare Peek Into The Massive Scale of AWS: "... So nearly five years ago, when this problem became apparent, AWS designed its own network routers and went to original design manufacturers to build the hardware, and put together a team to write the networking software stack on top of them. This is a course of action, Hamilton said laughing, where people “would get you a doctor and put you in a nice little room where you were safe and you can’t hurt anyone.” The first thing that Amazon learned from its custom network gear is what it learned about servers and storage a long time ago: If you build it yourself with minimalist attitudes and only with the features you need, it is a lot cheaper. “Just the support contract for networking gear was running tens of millions of dollars.”..."


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THE Cloud Question: Amazon or Google?

Amazon or Google is The Cloud Question:

Amazon's New Cloud Prices Show That Google Is Now a Threat | WIRED: "... Google introduced a product called Sustained Use Discounts, and this made things much simpler. If you used a lot of computing resources, you’d get a discount: no upfront fees. That’s the model that Amazon took a step toward this week... There are still differences. Amazon had previously demanded upfront payments from customers who wanted to take advantage of its reserved instances pricing. And while those payments are no longer required, customers still have to commit to using Amazon’s services for a year or more. That’s not the case with Google... late last year that Google really delivered a competitive offering, called Compute Engine. And now the company is fast catching up. In late March Google started a price war with Amazon, slashing its cloud computing prices, across the board, by 30 percent. That kind of price slashing is likely to continue, says Michael Crandell, the CEO of RightScale, a cloud management company. “There’s clearly a case of point-counterpoint going on, and it is a competitive market.” Byrne says that while Google doesn’t offer the wide range of products, it beats out Amazon in many respects. Google’s compute speed and network “is faster than Amazon’s,” he says. “They’re probably the only people where you can say that their infrastructure is really world-leading.” (read more at the link above)

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Andy Rubin, Startup Incubator

Google's Andy Rubin leaves to start incubator - GadgeTell | TechnologyTell: "The head of Google’s robotics division and a co-creator of the Android operating system, Andy Rubin, is leaving Google. Rubin plans to create a startup incubator, so he is leaving his current position at Google and will be replaced by James Kuffner, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal...Google acquired Android in 2005, thereby bringing aboard Rubin. As for Rubin’s replacement, Kuffner has been working with the robotics division at Google for years. Kuffner helped develop the idea for cloud robotics back in 2010, and he has worked as a research scientist in the same Google division for quite a while. Rubin was also involved in robotics when his career really began to takeoff in the 1980s." (read more at link above)
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The Cloud Market, Little Space for Rackspace?

Little Space Remains for Rackspace -- Ahead of the Tape - WSJ - WSJ: "... Rackspace was effectively shopping for a buyer, only to formally call off the effort a few weeks before the quarter’s end... Keeping business running during a period of such uncertainty is a notable feat. But the bigger question of whether Rackspace is better off alone won’t be settled here. The company is in the painful position of competing against a host of large, deep-pocketed tech stars like Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. that are driving down the price of cloud services...." (read more at link above)

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Amazon Cloud Drive API

Amazon Cloud Drive Gets Its Own API | TechCrunch: ".... Amazon says developers who use the Cloud Drive API won’t have to worry about things like various screen resolutions, metadata management, indexing, search or sync functionality; it will be included after the API’s integration. Cloud Drive is also available within other developer tools, including Filepicker and Temboo, which makes it easier on those working with a range of cloud services. At launch, a number of mobile applications have integrated Cloud Drive’s API, including: OfficeSuite, Perfectly Clear, FreePrints, Photo Gifts by MailPix, ScanCafe, FileThis, CloudHQ, File Commander, Jumptuit, Secrata, and Wappwolf. These are now featured in an online Cloud Drive App Gallery here..."

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Amazon Aurora, Cost-Effective, MySQL-Compatible Database Engine, for Amazon RDS

Amazon Aurora - New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS: .... Aurora, is a fully-managed, MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. When you use Amazon RDS for Aurora, you'll spend less time managing and tuning your database, leaving you with more time to focus on building your application and your business. As your business grows, Amazon Aurora will scale with you. You won't need to take your application off line in order to add storage. Instead, Amazon Aurora will add storage in 10 GB increments on as as-needed basis, all the way up to 64 TB. Baseline storage performance is rapid, reliable and predictable—it scales linearly as you store more data, and allows you to burst to higher rates on occasion. You can scale the instance size in minutes and you can add replicas with a couple of clicks....

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