S3Fox Organizer helps you organize/manage/store your files on Amazon S3. It is easy to install and use as it is integrated into the browser.

The S3Fox Organizer(S3Fox), offers the ability to upload or download files to and from Amazon S3. The interface, which opens in a Firefox browser tab, looks much like that of FTP clients with a dual-pane layout. It displays files on your PC on the left, files on Amazon S3 on the right, and status or information in a panel on the bottom.

Main Features:
- A Front-end tool for Amazon S3 with a nifty GUI Interface.
- Upload/Download multiple files using a user friendly interface.
- Manage S3 Cloud Front Distributions
- Modifying Access Control Policies
- Synchronize Folders with local system and S3
- Drag-n-Drop Files
- Ability to create/edit and use multiple S3 accounts.
- Create time limited urls
- Works on Windows, Linux and Mac (whereever firefox works)

Manage S3 Cloud Front Distributions

S3 CloudFront is the web service for content delivery. You can create and edit the urls of your buckets very easily in S3Fox.
Right-click on the files/bucket to get the distribution list.

Drag-n-drop files

You can also drag-n-drop files from Windows Explorer on to the drop-box. Drop Box can be opened directly from the status bar.

You can view the current tasks in separate panel and all the activity in the Log View.

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Nice article that I came across…

One of the promises of the cloud is the power to join computing resources to solve the scientific mysteries of our time. On the backdrop of biomedical research, the challenges to join minds and computers together are also immense. Not only is the subject material complicated, it also is sensitive from both a time and privacy point of view. It is critical to get it right as people’s lives are at stake, and any new discovery requires comprehensive peer review and an unerring trail of evidence.

With these considerations in mind, the National Cancer Institute has been making significant progress with the caBIG (Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) project. It is focused on setting standards for sharing computing resources and data in the effort to cure cancer.

The caBIG charter is enormous and visionary: “The National Cancer Institute is launching a 21st century information initiative that will transform the way we do cancer research. We are creating a network that will freely connect the entire cancer community. In doing so, we are leveraging valuable resources and saving precious time toward new discoveries.”

Imaging

A number of peer-reviewed articles on the use of imaging using the caBIG have been released. A paper titled “e-Science, caGrid, and Translational Biomedical Research” offers insight into the mindset of biomedical researchers.

“Translational research projects target a wide variety of diseases, test many different kinds of biomedical hypotheses, and employ a large assortment of experimental methodologies. Diverse data, complex execution environments, and demanding security and reliability requirements make the implementation of these projects extremely challenging and require novel e-Science technologies.”

To make its shared research work across the industry requires unique approaches in computing architecture. An architecture diagram gives a peek into the system that has been designed to meet the challenge.

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Usenixe/Sage has just officially publised our new book in the Short Topics series: “Foundation for Cloud Computing with VMware vSphere 4″.

Before reading the rest of this article be aware that the target audience for this book is IT Management. It’s an overview of VMware products / technology which enable Cloud Computing. It is by no means intended as a blueprint for cloud computing. If you are a techie this might not be the book for you, we are however working on a more technical book which will detail the process of designing a cloud infrastructure based on VMware products.

Book #21, Foundation for Cloud Computing with VMware vSphere 4, by John Arrasjid, Duncan Epping, and Steve Kaplan, is now online for members and available for purchase. Virtualization is recognized as a foundation for Cloud Computing. This book is an overview of the VMware technologies and how they can support the various services and management pieces required for Cloud architecture. Without diving overly deeply into specific design patterns, it provides insight into the tools to fit your design criteria.

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Lowered Costs – Cloud Computing offers tremendous advantages to small and medium size business in terms of reduced costs. You pay for what you use.

Scalable Storage Options – You can scale your companies storage needs seamlessly rather than having to go out and purchase expensive hardware.

Automatic Updates – There is no need for IT to worry about paying for future updates in terms of software and hardware.

Remote Access – Employees can access information wherever they are, rather than having to remain stationary much of the time.

Green Computing  - Cloud Computing uses less energy than traditional data centers which is important to many in this day and age.

Ease of Implementation – Without the need for implementation of hardware and various other components which can take several hours.  You can be running your business in almost as much time as it takes to setup a facebook account.

Skilled Vendors - Would you rather these guys manage and protect your data – Microsoft, Google, IBM, Yahoo, Sales Force and Amazon or an incompetent over paid IT staff?

Response time – Cloud computing accomplishes a better response time in most cases than your standard server hardware.

Even playing field for small startups – This allows small companies to compete more effectively with some of the larger businesses. This balances the playing field.

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BitNami Cloud images extend stack appliances to run in a cloud computing environment. You can run BitNami applications on a pay-as-you-go basis, programmatically starting and stopping them. BitNami cloud images are currently available for Amazon EC2 and GoGrid, with planned support for additional cloud environments. Learn more about BitNami Cloud Images.

For both GoGrid and Amazon, the default application login information is provided below. Please change this to avoid unauthorized access:

You can find additional documentation at the Bitnami Virtual Machine FAQ.

Amazon Machine Images

To deploy a BitNami Stack on Amazon EC2, copy the appropriate AMI name from the table below (based on whether you want to deploy on servers (in the US or Europe) and visit the BitNami AMI Guide for a tutorial on how to get started.

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EMC Session at Cloud Expo

There are new solutions to the challenges in today’s desktop operational environments and opportunities for IT to enable the enterprise knowledge worker by reducing time-to-market and lowering TCO.

In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Scott Burgess, Director of the America’s East Region for EMC Global Services, Microsoft Practice, will discuss the outlook on IT’s evolving role in today’s service-aligned cloud-based delivery models.

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Cloud Expo is the world’s leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

The 5th International Cloud Expo is co-located with the 8th International Virtualization Conference & Expo and will be taking place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City with more than 5,000 delegates and over 100 sponsors and exhibitors participating in the conference.

About the Speaker
Scott Burgess is the Director of the America’s East Region for EMC Global Services, Microsoft Practice. In this capacity, he is responsible for all solution development, services delivery, customer satisfaction, and overall profit/loss for our business within this geographical region. He joined EMC in 2005 via the acquisition of Internosis, a globally-recognized leader in the strategy, execution, and management of Microsoft-related technology solutions. Scott brings over eighteen (18) years of experience in the design and delivery of information technology systems for public and private-sector customers, with a focus on distributed and mission-critical computing.

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As cloud computing speeds ahead, privacy protections are too often being left in the dust.

Loosely defined, cloud computing involves programs or services that run on Internet servers. Despite the buzz surrounding it, the idea isn’t new–think Web­mail. But huge benefits, such as being able to gain access to your data from anywhere and not having to worry about backups, have led more people to leap to the Internet to do everything from writing documents and watching movies to managing their businesses. Unfortunately, privacy is often still stuck at home.

Behind the Times

Archaic laws that focus on where your information is, rather than what it is, are part of the problem. But a disturbing lack of respect for essential privacy among industry heavyweights who should know better is also evident.

Consider comments that Google CEO Eric Schmidt made during a recent CNBC interview. In response to the question, “People are treating Google like their most trusted friend. Should they be?” Schmidt responded, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.

This kind of “only the guilty have anything to hide” mindset is a privacy killer, and rests on the completely flawed no­­tion that people want privacy only when they’re doing something wrong. There’s nothing wrong with my taking a shower or searching for information about a medical condition. But it’s still private.

It’s possible Schmidt spoke without thinking–Google is mum for now on the prospect of issuing a clarification of any kind. But meanwhile, privacy is taking a pounding in other areas, as well.

Last summer, a U.S. District Court judge in Oregon ruled that government law enforcement agencies need not provide you with a copy of a warrant they have obtained in order to read all of your e-mail stored on an Internet server–where most of us keep e-mail these days. It’s sufficient to give your Internet service provider notice, according to Judge Michael Mosman.

In his opinion and order, Mosman noted the Fourth Amendment’s “strong privacy protection for homes and the items within them in the physical world.” Still, he said, “When a person uses the Internet, however, the user’s actions are no longer in his or her physical home; in fact he or she is not truly acting in private space at all.”

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Where the trends are?

I’ve decided to do the put together a Google insight trend test with some of the more well know technology buzzwords. Cloud Computing, Virtualization, SaaS (Software As a Service) and Grid Computing.  I’ve also ran the job trends through Indeed.com and….

The results are in.

What types of SaaS related companies are getting involved in the cloud? Here are a list of some of them taken directly from the – AWS website.

Application Hosting

99designs
99designs’ massive design marketplace has received over 3.1 Million unique design submissions from over 53,000 designers around the world and runs entirely on AWS.

Abaca
Abaca, a spam blocking application, chooses Amazon EC2 as a low-cost computing alternative after they surpass their estimated growth rate.

AdaptiveBlue
Glue uses Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon S3 and EC2 to power their browser add-on which lets users share feedback with their friends on things found on Amazon.com, MTV, Wikipedia, and other websites.

Appirio
Appirio worked closely with The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) to migrate their infrastructure to AWS.

Autodesk Seek
Autodesk, Inc. selects Amazon Web Services as the infrastructure upon which to build its new software-as-a-service solution, Autodesk Seek.

Cirrhus9
Ekabhi Enterprises recently came to Cirrhus9 to help them successfully implement a virtual data center that would be used on a global scale by the Chandaria Foundation, global charitable organization.

ddsWebLink
ddsWebLink turned to AWS to run their HIPAA-compliant application for sending, managing, and storing patients’ electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) in the dental care industry.

DigitalChalk
DigitalChalk powers its easy-to-use application for creating, delivering, and managing online training videos using Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon SQS.

directthought
directthought worked with Xerox to build a scalable document processing solution that leveraged the cost effective storage of Amazon S3 and the scalable compute resources of Amazon EC2.

DreamFactory
DreamFactory selects Amazon Web Services as a cost-effective platform which meets technical and business requirements for delivering products in the cloud.

Envoy Media Group NEW!
Envoy Media Group is an integrated direct marketing firm that offers solutions and highly-targeted media campaigns running on AWS. Michael Taggart, Chief Technical Officer claims, “I will never build another web app on a traditional datacenter setup again.”

Eton Digital
StudentBox online student community chooses Eton Digital to support large scale photo and video sharing via AWS.

ftopia NEW!
To deliver their online file-sharing application, ftopia decided to use Amazon Web Services and leverage its data centers in the EU and US. Lisez en français.

HostedFTP
HostedFTP.com, a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) replacement solution for businesses, hosts their file sharing system on Amazon S3 and EC2.

InstallFree
GDS integrated InstallFree and Amazon EC2 & Amazon S3 to deliver a virtualized version of GE Centricity along with their custom PAX system to their network of hospitals, doctors, and medical providers to comply with Electronic Medical Records Act.

Kehalim
Kehalim, a contextual affiliate platform, turned to Amazon SimpleDB and Amazon Relational Database Service to scale their data storage.

Kooaba Till Quack, CTO of Kooaba AG, shared some insight into their application for the iPhone and Android running on AWS.

LiveLeader
LiveLeader estimates that they’ve saved nearly $200,000 by deploying their live chat tool for business on Amazon Web Services.

Livemocha
Livemocha, an online language learning site with free courses in over 25 languages and 3 million users worldwide, chose Amazon SimpleDB to help them store, process and query large datasets. Their online service also makes use of Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, and CloudFront.

Meginfo
Meginfo was chosen as the vendor to build PSA’s (Peugeot and Citroën) new Chinese website and tailor the content to meet the needs of the Chinese market.

Model Metrics
Model Metrics developed the Cloud Converter to support its client Salesforce.com. Cloud Converter is an open source application that automates the migration of applications from on premise platforms to Force.com.

Monografias NEW!
This large Latin American community-built content site is entirely run on AWS with tens of thousands of original essays and publications and over 2 Million unique visitors per day.

Morph
Built from the ground up using Amazon Web Services, Morph Labs markets a “full service” deployment, delivery and management system for web applications.

Napera
Napera built their network security management layer on top of Amazon EC2, allowing them to go to market in under nine months.

nuTsie
In this interview, Bob Wise, VP Engineering of Melodeo tells us about nuTsie, an iPhone application they built on AWS.

ParkVu
Jeff Fedor and Terry Goertz, Co-Founders of ParkVu describe their media player for BlackBerry phones and how they run their application on AWS.

Peritor
Peritor supports MeinProf, one of the largest online academic community sites in Germany, with AWS implementation supporting large traffic spikes.

photoWALL
The photoWALL team launched their application using all AWS services: Amazon EC2 (with Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudWatch, and Elastic Block Store), Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, and the newly released Amazon RDS.

PicTranslator
PicTranslator, recently featured as New and Noteworthy on the App Store, uses AWS to scale their highly CPU-intensive workflows.

PostRank
As a young, bootstrapped company, the founders of PostRank architected their new service to take advantage of the AWS cloud computing platform. “Without EC2, the project would have been impossible.”

Ripplex NEW!
Ripplex Inc., based in Tokyo, Japan, has built a unique web service named Webpo, a greeting card printing web service built on AWS.

Roambi
Quinton Alsbury, Co-Founder of Mellmo, explains their new iPhone application, Roambi, and how they launched it on AWS.

rPath
rPath saves $80,000 by migrating 7,000 software appliance images from rBuilder Online to Amazon S3.

Skifta NEW!
Skifta, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, has chosen AWS as their hosting provider. Skifta, a free service that allows consumers to shift media from the network it is stored on and access it in other locations, may not have been possible without AWS.

Smartsheet
To accommodate their growing business, Smartsheet, a web-based solution for managing tasks, projects and processes, turns to Amazon S3 and CloudFront for document storage and delivery. They have also created an easy point-and-click interface to access Amazon’s Mechanical Turk on-demand workforce.

SOASTA
SOASTA’s CloudTest solution on AWS enabled Intuit to do massive spike testing scenarios as Intuit prepared its TurboTax program to support over 18 million online tax preparers during the peak of tax season.

Sorenson Media
The Sorenson 360 Video Delivery Network service is architected entirely on top of Amazon Web Services—including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront. “Our engineering team looked extensively at infrastructure and CDN solutions from a scalability, cost and API standpoint — and Amazon was the clear choice for us.”

StarPound
StarPound Technologies, an enterprise software company, deployed their business process management and telephony platforms on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

Techout.com
Amazon EC2 allows Techout to horizontally scale virtual monitoring instances with speed and at low cost whenever and wherever they’re needed around the world.

Unfuddle
Unfuddle is now using Amazon EC2 and S3 for virtually 100% of its infrastructure, including web and database servers. Unfuddle makes extensive use of EBS volumes and snapshots which has completely transformed their backup process.

Urbanspoon
Adam Doppelt, co-founder of Urbanspoon, explains how they use Amazon S3, EC2 and CloudFront to power their popular iPhone application.

Xignite
Xignite employs Amazon EC2 and S3 to deliver financial market data to enterprise applications, portals, and websites for clients such as Forbes, Citi, ING, kaChing, and Starbucks.

Wowza
Wowza teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer Wowza Media Server Pro on Amazon EC2 as self-managed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Zeba Consulting
Zeba teamed with Spot-On, an online political consultancy using a unique database and analytics, to narrowly target voters online. The Spot-On platform was up and running within a couple of weeks avoiding large capital expense as the fall political campaign began.

Read more of them at:AWS

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Cloud Computing Forum – Break Through With Oracle

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