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• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 12/16/2009+

  
  OakLeaf Systems — Authority: 486
  Windows Azure, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.   Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database ...
  5 hours ago

• Amazon Web Services Group Introduces New Way to Buy Capacity in its Elastic Cloud 2

  
  Opus Research — Authority: 127
  Cloudspace is becoming a commodity that can be bought and sold on the “spot market.” That’s more true than ever with the introduction of real time auctions for “instances” in Amazon.com’s Elastic Cloud 2 (EC2). The details of the “beta” version of “Spot Instances are published here . The ideal ...
  2 days ago

• Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

  
  All Things Distributed — Authority: 513
  Today we launched a new option for acquiring Amazon EC2 Compute resources: Spot Instances . Using this option, customers bid any price they like on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long their bid exceeds the current "Spot Price." Spot Instances are ideal for tasks that can be flexible as ...
  2 days ago

• GoodData, Bizo Among AWS Winners

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 667
  startups , Internet , Awards Gregory T. Huang wrote: Amazon Web Services announced today that the winner of its third annual AWS Start-up Challenge is GoodData, a business intelligence and analytics firm based in San Francisco. The company was awarded $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, and an ...
  6 days ago

• Symantec Jumps Into Amazon’s Cloud

  
  The VAR Guy — Authority: 524
  We knew Symantec was planning to evolve its SaaS strategy , but they’d been playing their hand close to their chest. Rewind a couple of years, and many of Symantec’s initial SaaS moves involved the company’s fledgling Symantec Protection Network system. But now, Symantec is reaching out to public clouds — ...
  6 days ago

• Amazon Launches Disc + Demand

  
  AppScout — Authority: 597
  The waiting, as a great man once said, is the hardest part. Amazons new promotion is great news for anyone who cant possibly wait out shipping times, in order to watch a newly purchased DVD. The site is giving users who purchase a select number of DVDs or Blu-ray the ability to watch the movie instantly via Amazon On ...
  6 days ago

• Windows on the Cloud: Windows Azure Basics from Microsoft’s Yousef Khalidi

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 667
  IT , cloud computing , Microsoft Wade Roush wrote: Xconomy’s Cloud 3 Forum gets underway this morning at Microsoft’s New England R&D Center in Cambridge, MA, so I thought it would be a great time to write up my recent Q&A with Yousef Khalidi , a distinguished engineer in Microsoft’s ...
  6 days ago

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 12/9/2009+

  
  OakLeaf Systems — Authority: 486
  Windows Azure, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.   Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database ...
  1 week ago

• Amazon EC2 Down for 30 Minutes

  
  Kin Lane — Authority: 122
  We were trying to finish up a major email blast tonight and all of a sudden our main blast server stopped working. Then I immediately got a flood of email alerts saying all of our live servers were down. I submitted a trouble ticket to Amazon EC2.  I have Gold Support package lately with all the email issues we ...
  1 week ago

• WaveMaker: Mac OS X Meets Cloud Development

  
  The VAR Guy — Authority: 524
  Numerous VARs tell us they’re developing cloud strategies for customer applications. What we hadn’t heard of before, however, is a cloud development environment for Apple Mac OS X — but that’s just what WaveMaker has released. Here’s the scoop. WaveMaker’s namesake software is a visual Ajax ...
  1 week ago

• ComArchive: E-mail Archiving Meets Amazon’s Cloud

  
  The VAR Guy — Authority: 524
  Amazon Web Services , proprietors of the EC2 cloud , has entered into a partnership with relatively unknown Danish firm ComArchive to provide e-mail archiving in the cloud. The alleged selling point: The solution can be installed, configured, and made ready to go in 10 minutes, ComArchive asserts. Now, for the key ...
  1 week ago

• Launched Instance in New Amazon Region – US West

  
  Kin Lane — Authority: 122
  I just launched my first Amazon EC2 instance in the new US West Region.  They recently extended the cloud to a Northern California region. So I thought I’ d test drive with a new instance and went ahead and reserved 5 IP address for use with other instances. Can’t wait to see a South America, Asian and other ...
  1 week ago

• Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features

  
  All Things Distributed — Authority: 513
  Today a powerful new feature is available for our Amazon EC2 customers: the ability to boot their instances from Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store). Customers like the simplicity of the AMI (Amazon Machine Image) model where they either choose a preconfigured AMI or upload their own AMI into Amazon S3. A wide variety ...
  1 week ago

• Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California)

  
  All Things Distributed — Authority: 513
  We have expanded the AWS footprint in the US and starting today a new AWS Region is available for use: US-West (Northern California). This new Region consists of multiple Availability Zones and provides low-latency access to the AWS services from for example the Bay Area. In the US, AWS customers now can choose ...
  1 week ago

• Obscured by Clouds – Meaning vs. Marketing in the Cloud

  
  Chaotic Flow by Joel York — Authority: 103
  It seems that everyone is jumping on the cloud bandwagon.  Cloud this, cloud that, everything cloud.  Salesforce.com has all but rebranded its entire business as cloud .  Instead of sales force automation, we now have “Sales Cloud 2” (and “Service Cloud” and “Custom Cloud” and “Collaboration Cloud” ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vulcan Backs Bizo, Ignition in Fotonauts Financing, Datacastle Raises $3M, & More Seattle-Area Deals News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 667
  Roundup , deals , VC Gregory T. Huang wrote: It was a pretty quiet week for deals in the Northwest, what with the Thanksgiving holiday. But there was some activity in the software and Internet sectors. —Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital participated in a $6 million equity funding round for San ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vulcan Re-ups with Bizo

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 667
  deals , VC , Internet Gregory T. Huang wrote: Seattle-based Vulcan Capital has participated in a $6 million equity funding round for Bizo, an online advertising network and audience targeting platform based in San Francisco. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round, with participation from existing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rackspace Hosting Joins SaaS 20 Stock Index

  
  The VAR Guy — Authority: 524
  Rackspace Hosting Inc. (RAX) has replaced Omniture in our SaaS 20 Stock Index , which tracks publicly held companies that have software as a service (SaaS) business practices. Here’s a quick look at the SaaS 20 Stock Index, its members and its overall performance in 2009. Please note: The SaaS 20 Stock Index is ...
  2 weeks ago

• SaaS Stocks Up 53 Percent So Far In 2009

  
  MSPmentor — Authority: 432
  With one month remaining in 2009, software as a service (SaaS) stocks remain red hot. Nine Lives Media Inc.’s SaaS 20 Stock Index is up 53.74 percent so far this year — with 19 of the 20 index members seeing their shares rise. Here’s a look at the index’s year-to-date winners, plus the reason why Rackspace ...
  2 weeks ago

• This Week in Asia Episode 2: The Apps Stores, Mobile Clones and Panties

  
  SGEntrepreneurs — Authority: 429
  Gang Lu , co-founder of Mobinode and Open Web Asia from China joins us as our special guest for This Week in Asia. He shares with us what goes on currently with the mobile apps store scene in China and how the iPhone is slugging out against other competitors in the Chinese market. You can now subscribe This Week ...
  3 weeks ago

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