Oozing Investment For Amazon Results and Background Although the results of the second quarter have not been too amazing for Amazon, Chief Financial Officer Thomas J. Szkutak has different plans for Amazon. Even after not putting up a very impressive performance, investment in cloud computing technology by the company will not stop. In fact, they have plans to further spruce up the investments in one of their major domains – cloud computing. According to unofficial reports, Amazon has plans to spend capex funds to the tune of $850 million on its cloud technology division. This is considered to be a
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I am competing as well: Amazon Well, how many of us could have imagined that one of the pioneers of cloud computing – Amazon, would have started feeling the heat of competition so early in the domain. However the fact is that Amazon has recently re-worked its marketing and pricing strategies and has started pushing aggressively on consumer sensitive price points. With the advent of numerous cloud computing providers like Google etc., it is important for the organization to stay competitive in the fast and dynamic environment of cloud computing. Services from giants like Microsoft Azure, or Rackspace cloud computing platforms, have forced Amazon to get
Consumer Cloud: Problem in the Business Model Today, consumers behaviour is quite different from what it used to be a few years ago, especially when the concern at hand is technology, and that too cloud technology. Having been dependent on cloud technology for more than a few years in line, consumers have opted to be at the mercy of their providers more than ever before. Consumers are therefore more bent on accepting their human resource and security practices more blindly than they used to do a few years ago. The problem has been largely attributed to the increased dependence on cloud as a service or software
Caring About The Client End Point In A Cloud In a cloud infrastructure, should one care about the client end point? One of the key enabling factors for the enterprise mobility of an organization is the cloud-technology-based model. However, most of the real access is from practical devices such as smartphones, desktop PCs, etc. However, since the applications are stored and delivered through the cloud, these end-point devices largely become insignificant. However, if you’re really serious about securing the cloud, then there is an increased need to secure mobile devices as well. These can be termed as access points to
Security And Management In The Cloud Though there are various challenges involved in maintaining a cloud service, one of the major challenges that organizations face is security management. The advent of global computing represents cloud computing in totality. This has transcended boundaries, not just nationally, but also internationally. This same globalization is another challenge that has emerged for cloud technology, because traditional security models do not apply in the cloud infrastructure. Let us take, for example, firewall infrastructure. The very invention of firewalls in traditional systems was meant to provide “blocking-security” for single hardware devices. However, with cloud computing models,
Video May Be Big Data’s Secret Weapon Big data is all the rage. When someone utters those two words, images of pages upon pages of statistics come to mind. It also conjures up ideas of this data coming together to form a more consolidated and organized sheet that can help your business understand how consumers behave. Data collection and analysis companies are exhausting possible sources of data and new ways of intelligently analyzing data to attract more clients. However, it seems that there are data sources that are being ignored, despite their popularity. The Inherent Flaw of Video As of
The Data World: AWS Reaches 1 Trillion According to recently released statistics, Amazon Web Services’ S3 Services (Simple Storage Service) is now home to more than a trillion (12 zeros) objects, courtesy of its cloud computing clients. The newly released figures once again prove the tremendous growth of cloud computing. Simple Storage Service is Amazon Web Services’ online storage service. It was launched in the US in March 2006, and was followed by a European launch in November 2007. As its name implies, S3 is a cloud storage service provider offering above average uptime, low latency, and scalability, while retaining simplicity and
