Cloud Computing Without The Internet – Is It Possible? *Note: Please Read Complete Article The cloud industry has been taken by storm after the claim by a California-based startup that cloud computing is possible without the Internet. Cloudmotion, funded by the same venture capitalists that had a hand in Google’s and eBay’s successes, declared last Friday that they are in the last stages of testing and except to start commercialization before end of 2012. The company, founded by two MIT computer science PhDs, started operations in 2009 and received a second round of funding in January this year. Its revolutionary
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Amazon Cloud Drive Windows Integration Amazon Cloud Drive is secure and reliable cloud storage from the same company that created Amazon S3, which hosts over 262 Billion objects. Amazon Cloud Drive used from Windows Explorer as a local drive with a drive letter is even cooler. This article shows how to integrate Amazon Cloud Drive into Windows as a mapped network drive letter to support the BASIC cloud storage use cases: Backup local folders and files to Amazon Cloud Drive Access Amazon Cloud Drive with a drive letter and drag/drop capability. Sync folders and files across multiple PC, leveraging Amazon
The Future Of Cloud Storage And Sharing… The online (or cloud) storage business has always been a really interesting industry. When we started Box in 2005, it was a somewhat untouchable category of technology, perceived to be a commodity service with low margins and little consumer willingness to pay. All three of these factors remain today, but with dropping storage costs, constantly improving bandwidth and computing performance, and consumers’ ever-growing personal digital libraries, online storage (profitable or otherwise) has become a strategic offering for most large internet and software companies. Google continuously updates its Docs service with upgradeable storage and
iSpaces Revolutionizes Web-based Environment with A ‘Cloud Computer’ Dermot Doherty, Sunne Justice and Guillermo Söhnlein founded iSpaces in 2009 as they were tired of opening different email accounts and Web apps and synchronizing between various computers and mobile devices. The result of their efforts is an Ireland-incorporated company that offers a cloud-based operating environment; namely, a cloud computer or virtual desktop that currently runs best on Google Chrome, but will be released soon on other popular browsers. The platform is written in Object Oriented JavaScript and provides multi-desktop functionality to users who are non-stop in the web. Actually, the company
UNLEASHING CLOUD PERFORMANCE Introduction: The reality of cloud services Thirty-five percent. By 2014, analysts believe that thirty-five percent, or over one-third, of global enterprise IT budgets will be spent on cloud services. While today the percentage of organizations investing in these types of offerings is small, the implication is clear: “the cloud” is not another industry buzz word, but a broad category which will drive the next phase of IT projects. For IT and business managers already inundated with information about the promise of a cloud centric infrastructure the question is not whether or not to use the cloud, but
Intel’s Cloud Access 360 Leads the Way In an exclusive interview with Intel on Friday, March 25th, Cloudtweaks.com spoke with Vikas Jain as a follow-up to Intel’s announced Expressway Cloud Access 360 at Cloud Connect. Vikas Jain is the Director of Product Management for Application Security and Identity Products with Intel Corporation and has over 16 years experience in the software and services market, with particular expertise in cloud security, identity and access management, and application architecture. Prior to joining Intel, Vikas has held leadership roles in product management and software development at a wide-range of technology companies including Oracle,
Here is an older but still very insightful article contributed by Ray DePena What is cloud computing? What is the difference between a cloud and the internet? Some Twenty-One Experts Define Cloud Computing differently, and there are even more definitions out there. Among many that I’ve heard are some of the following: Cloud = Internet Cloud = Innovation Cloud = On Demand Cloud = Autonomic computing Cloud = Distributed computing Cloud = Grid computing Cloud = Hosting Cloud = Multi-tenancy Cloud = SOA Cloud = Utility computing Cloud = Virtualization Cloud = SLA-driven Cloud = SaaS Cloud = PaaS / OPaaS Cloud = IaaS / HaaS Cloud = Just a
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances Dedicated Instances are Amazon EC2 instances launched within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) that run hardware dedicated to a single customer. Dedicated Instances let you take full advantage of the benefits of Amazon VPC and the AWS cloud – on-demand elastic provisioning, pay only for what you use, and a private, isolated virtual network, all while ensuring that your Amazon EC2 compute instances will be isolated at the hardware level. You can easily create a VPC that contains dedicated instances only, providing physical isolation for all Amazon EC2 compute instances launched into that VPC,
