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06 Jun 08

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    A new, much less expensive alternative for computer server space is generating interest among investors for dot-com start-ups.

22 Apr 08

Who Are The Biggest Users of Amazon Web Services? It’s Not Startups.

  • So who are using these services? A high-ranking Amazon executive told me there are 60,000 different customers across the various Amazon Web Services, and most of them are not the startups that are normally associated with on-demand computing. Rather the biggest customers in both number and amount of computing resources consumed are divisions of banks, pharmaceuticals companies and other large corporations who try AWS once for a temporary project, and then get hooked.


  • So who are using these services? A high-ranking Amazon executive told me there are 60,000 different customers across the various Amazon Web Services, and most of them are not the startups that are normally associated with on-demand computing. Rather the biggest customers in both number and amount of computing resources consumed are divisions of banks, pharmaceuticals companies and other large corporations who try AWS once for a temporary project, and then get hooked.
21 Apr 08

Cloud computing will follow you everywhere

  • AS VEGAS -- Google Inc., Microsoft, Yahoo Inc. and a handful of other vendors will invest about $5 billion this year to build out the infrastructure to sell IT through the "cloud," according to Gartner Inc. By 2009, the companies will have invested billions of dollars more.



    What does that have to do with CIOs?



    Plenty, according to the Stamford, Conn.-based consultancy. Cloud computing might be this year's annoying buzzword, but CIOs cannot afford to swat it away.



    "It is not about the label," said Gartner analyst Tom Austin, speaking to a packed room of IT executives at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo on emerging trends last week. It's about cost, efficiency, capacity, software upgrades, maybe even better security, Austin said.

02 Apr 08

Official Google Docs Blog: Bringing the cloud with you

  • We know that many of you have been waiting for offline access to Google Docs, and I'm happy to tell you we'll be rolling it out over the next few weeks, starting today with a small percentage of users.

    Here's why I'm excited about this development. My migration from the desktop to 'the cloud' started with my Gmail account. I could access my mail from anywhere, search it all in one place, and never need to migrate to a new account. It was great. Then I started using Google Calendar to organize my schedule all in one place.

    So now I find myself with this drive to make my desktop as sparse as possible, both in data and software. I want to move it all into the cloud. There are still times I use my desktop word processor, but I want to minimize context switching between apps. Cloud computing is great, but you need the cloud to make it work. On an airplane, on the shuttle commuting to work, or at home when my cable modem goes down, I want to work on my documents. And, until now, that usually meant saving a copy and editing on the desktop.

    Now there's a better solution. With Google Docs offline (powered by Google Gears), I can take my little piece of the cloud with me wherever I go. Once enabled, I have a local version of my document list and editors, along with my documents.
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