How Early is the Cloud Storage Market? Cloud storage and cloud computing are generating more and more interest as we move forward. By looking at the Google Trends graph of “cloud storage”, we can see the search volume going up exponentially since 2008. However, if comparing “cloud storage” and “FTP” on the same graph, you will see the search volume of “FTP” is declining but is still much greater than that of “cloud storage”. This makes sense, everyone knows FTP and it is widely used. However, the interest is declining. Cloud Storage is on the way up, but still in
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Amazon Web Services Deployment The Right Way In general, when considering all things “cloud” it’s healthy to retain a skeptical mind set and avoid succumbing to hype. But the fallout from the recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is actually a very positive sign for Cloud Computing. Sure some sites got taken completely down, including a favorite of many, Quora. However, another popular site managed to survive the incident with comparatively minor hiccups: Netflix. This is the bright spot the cloud community should examine. As with many other leading websites, Keynote monitors the performance of certain transactions at Netflix.com. According
Environmental Challenges to Cloud Computing Cloud computing has been popularly considered to be environment-friendly. In fact, I had written an article along those lines, although I had expressed some skepticism on the extravagant claims being made on this issue (See: How Green Is Cloud Computing?). However, a recent report by environment watchdog Greenpeace does raise some questions the industry will have to answer. According to this report, provocatively titled “How dirty is your data? A Look at the Energy Choices That Power Cloud Computing”, the data centers that power cloud computing account for about 2% of global energy demand and
SAP Certifies HP as its Cloud Services Provider HP Enterprise Services has become an SAP-certified global provider of cloud services in support of SAP solutions. HP specializes in providing standardized IT solutions and services based on shared resources via the internet. The company enables smooth delivery of SAP applications to clients in a scalable manner via HP Hybrid Delivery Cloud Services. According to HP, it is among the first partners to achieve this certification, which assures clients using SAP applications through HP’s cloud services. Clients now know that they can benefit from increased flexibility, which enables business process alignment to
Lessons from the Amazon Cloud Outage Unless you have been living under the proverbial rock (or maybe a tropical paradise with no Internet connectivity), you must have heard about one of the greatest disasters of the cloud computing industry – Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) outage that happened last week. Now, mistakes are a part of life, more so in an emergent technology like cloud computing. In fact, history is strewn with quotes that advocate making mistakes as the first step towards excellence – “It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on
Dell Improves Enterprise Efficiency with its Cloud Application Dell is helping organizations to achieve enterprise efficiency by introducing new capabilities in its cloud computing solution. New and improved Dell Boomi allow enterprises to leverage cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) to significantly improve enterprise efficiency while leveraging existing IT investments. Dell claims that its latest version of Dell Boomi’s cloud integration technology, AtomSphere Spring 11, simplify the move to cloud computing through easy integration with existing enterprise IT environments. This is made possible thanks to its new capabilities for middleware connectivity and large-scale data management and migration as
