Cloud Services
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
The vendor introduced the new and updated solutions at its HP Discover conference in Frankfurt, Germany. HP also says more than 100 channel partners and ISVs (independent software vendors) now back the HP Cloud effort. Included in the announcement are new versions of HP CloudSystem, HP Cloud Service Automation and HP Continuous Delivery Automation -- each of which got an incremental update. HP also unveiled new and enhanced public cloud services under the HP Cloud Services portfolio... |
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Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknäs.
AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell provide over 550 so-called cmdlets for allowing administrators to make service calls or create scripts for automating cloud management, all from within the command line-based PowerShell environment. A cmdlet is a lightweight command that is used in PowerShell... |
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added PowerShell to the management options for its cloud, in a move that reaches out to the Windows community. Part of Amazon's Microsoft push is to let developers and administrators manage their AWS services in a way that's natural to them, according to the company.
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Eric Knorr.
The key question is whether any new IaaS player can put a dent in AWS' (Amazon Web Service's) huge market share, which gives it vast economies of scale. It also takes years and all sorts of deals to collect the range of products and services offered by AWS, from maximum VM configurability to NoSQL databases to Hadoop/MapReduce services to virtual private cloud capability and a vast software marketplace... |
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Grazed from Technorati. Author: Geoff Simon.
The service also removes storage limitations by not actually storing any of your files online, but instead works by providing a single file system across all devices where younity is installed (either Macs or PCs). Once installed, Younity indexes all your photos, documents, videos and music and represents it as a single file system. So what it allows for, is your machines, whether it's a Mac or PC to stream the files directly to your iOS device from where they're at, not by syncing it to a online cloud... |
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Santa Monica based younity announced today the beta launch of it's unique personal cloud storage service designed to eliminate device to computer syncing and storage limitations for iPhones and iPads. Today marks the public beta launch of the app, which allows iPhone and iPad users to access all their music, videos, photos and other files from all laptops, desktops without any plugin, plugging in or syncing.
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
Previously, Kerio enabled its partners and customers to host Kerio Connect on their own hardware using the SaaS model, but Kerio is now offering its messaging and calendaring server on a new cloud service infrastructure. However, it's not pulling the plug on its on-premise version of Connect; it's simply adding more cloud capabilities in an effort to compete more directly with the big guys in the space, namely Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps... |
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Kerio Technologies took a small step into the cloud computing realm with the launch of SaaS capabilities in Connect 7, but now the vendor is taking a much larger step into cloud with the release of Connect 8.
Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Dean Takahashi.
Adobe says that developers who use its tools can access an audience of 1.3 billion worldwide on PCs and more than 500 million on smartphones and tablets, 20 times the reach of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console... |
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Adobe is announcing today a set of cloud-based tools for game developers. The tools take advantage of the new cloud-computing trend, where web-connected data centers host subscription-based software. Hosted in the Adobe Creative Cloud service, the tools enable developers to access a centrally located suite of tools for making their titles. The aim is to streamline the game-development process from creation to final deployment.
Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.
“Avnet’s new solutions built on AWS complement our partners’ portfolios. We specifically designed these solutions to align with how end customers want to purchase cloud computing offerings, which will ensure that our partners can quickly, easily and cost effectively take these solutions to market.”... |
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Grazed from IDC. Author: Editorial Staff. The increasingly rapid evolution of both cloud services and of user understanding of its benefits and use modes in 2012 pushed consumption of cloud services to business managers as well as IT managers. As we move into 2013, International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts this evolution to accelerate and business buyers to further test the capabilities of the available services and their CIOs to deliver them. By 2016, IDC envisages a very different scenario, where cloud services have become an everyday sourcing option for the CIO and LOB manager alike, forcing change on both the infrastructure vendors, the owners of business IP and the consumers of cloud services and technologies... |
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Grazed from FastCompany. Author: Addy Dugdale.
Should the existing data management services be worried? Andy Jassy, the boss of Amazon Web Services thinks so, saying that cloud computing packages offered by current providers such as HP, IBM and Oracle, which only last month announced its arrival on the Cloud, are over-priced and under-performing. "Customers are tired of it," he told the AWS conference yesterday. |
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Grazed from XtremeTech. Author: Grant Brunner.
Announced this week as Hystrix, this system was originally developed by the Netflix API team back in 2011 to control the interactions between Netflix’s distributed services and systems, stepping in to prevent cascading failures if they seem likely. As of today, anyone can use Hystrix completely free because it has been officially released on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. The announcement does a good job at showcasing the enormous scale at which this system works: “Today tens of billions of thread-isolated and hundreds of billions of semaphore-isolated calls are executed via Hystrix every day at Netflix and a dramatic improvement in uptime and resilience has been achieved through its use.” This might not sound all that exciting at first, but this could have huge implications for the online services we already use as well as the services of the future... |
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Today, most large online services aren’t hosted on a single server. Amazon, iTunes, and Xbox Live are all run on countless networked servers all over the world. There is a lot of benefit to splitting up the load over many different servers and locations, but cloud computing also has its own problems, such as latency and stability. Top network engineers are working on smoothing out problems as they arise, and Netflix just made a big step in helping cloud services become more resilient.