by cloudtweaks on May 24, 2011
in Amazon, Backups, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Images, IT, SaaS, Storage, Technology, Tools, Video
Minus is a cloud-based, out of the box, straight-forward sharing platform which allows the users to upload and share photos, music, videos, PDFs and more. The site is focused on making everything simple and naturally convenient for the users. The site looks, sounds, interacts and then impresses and stands out ahead of others in its own simple, intuitive way. In the background, the minus is powered by Amazon’s latest, high-end EC2 and S3 cloud storage services. Salient Features Easy to Navigate Located at the top right and bottom left of the home page, five to six hyperlinked words each in
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by cloudtweaks on April 19, 2011
in Amazon, Apps, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Host, IBM, IT, News, Storage, Technology, Video
Announcing Live Streaming for Amazon CloudFront Using Amazon CloudFront with Amazon EC2 running Adobe’s Flash® Media Server and Amazon Route 53 (AWS’s DNS service), you can now easily and cost-effectively deliver your live video via AWS. And, we’ve made it simple to get started by creating an AWS CloudFormation template that handles all of the provisioning and sequencing for all the AWS resources you need for this live streaming stack. You only pay for the AWS resources you consume, and you have full control over your live streaming origin server (Adobe’s Flash Media Server running on Amazon EC2) — so
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by cloudtweaks on April 6, 2011
in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Host, Images, News, Press Release, SaaS, Storage, Technology, Video
Cambridge, Mass, April 6, 2011 — Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM),the leading provider of cloud optimization services, today announced that the Akamai HD Network is the first global video delivery network to have its HTTP dynamic streaming implementation certified by Adobe. The certification validates that the Akamai HD Network delivery of live and on-demand streaming based on Adobe Flash® technology, via the Adobe F4F format, is fully compatible with Adobe Flash run times that currently support HTTP dynamic streaming. Accordingly, content owners are expected to soon be able to take advantage of new HTTP dynamic streaming features, supported across the
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by sourya on April 5, 2011
in Amazon, Apps, Cloud Computing, Computing, Gaming, Movies, Music, News, Storage, Technology, Video
Is Amazon’s Cloud Player a Game changer in the Music Industry? “If music be the food of love, play on.” – From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. Last week, Amazon launched two new services – Cloud Drive and Cloud Player. While the first is a cloud-based storage facility, the second is a music player – available in a browser-based version and one for Android smart phones – that allows the user to stream any music files stored in the Cloud Drive to any compatible device or browser, even if the files themselves had not been synced there. In order to
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by Ray on March 30, 2011
in Cloud Computing, Computing, Contributors, Google Cloud, Guest Writers, Images, Security, Technology, Trends, Video
The Rise of the Cloud Enabled Autonomous Robots On the IEEE Spectrum Robotics blog, I came across this blog post, “Cloud Robotics: Connected to the Cloud, Robots Get Smarter” written by Erico Guizzo. It’s an interesting read on the possibilities of leveraging the Cloud in the field of robotics. Robotics has long been plagued by all the processing capacity required to mimic human capabilities, though emerging technology like Cloud computing is creating new possibilities. A single human brain has a greater switching capacity than all the computer switches on earth as discovered by researchers at the Stanford University School of
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Cloud Based Video Conferencing Innovator Nefsis Announces… SAN DIEGO, March 24, 2011 — Online video conferencing innovator Nefsis announced today state-of-the-art advances to its distributed cloud computing technology: intelligently virtualizing online meeting rooms closer to business participants. This advancement leverages the distributed nature of cloud computing and real-time routing information to reduce roundtrip latency time for video conferencing and live data sharing over the Internet. Customers enjoy faster response times and better quality video, especially in working sessions where multipoint video, HD and live collaboration with desktops are involved. The video conferencing industry is responding to rising demand among desktop
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by cloudtweaks on March 23, 2011
in Amazon, Apps, Cloud Computing, Computing, Gaming, Movies, Programming, Social networks, Startups, Technology, Trends, Venture Capital, Video
Cloud Computing Gaming Providers Cloud gaming, also called gaming on demand, is a type of online gaming that allows direct and on-demand streaming of games onto a computer through the use of a thin client, in which the actual game is stored on the game company’s server and is streamed directly to computers accessing the server through the client. (wikipedia) Onlive – OnLive provides the world’s highest performance Games On Demand service, instantly delivering the latest high-end titles over home broadband Internet to the TV and entry-level PCs and Macintosh® computers. Founded by noted technology entrepreneur Steve Perlman (WebTV, QuickTime)
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BlueTeach Aims To Revolutionize Person-to-person Learning In The Cloud Founded in 2009 and based in Paris, France, BlueTeach employs only seven professionals but already has a customer base calculated in thousands of users worldwide. The company self-describes its service as a knowledge sharing community in the Cloud and competes with services like eduFire and Livemocha to attract customers who are eager to gain new knowledge or provide tutoring services. The service, located at www.blueteach.com, requires only a web browser to run and no additional set-up of software or hardware is involved. Actually, it is a virtual classroom, called Eclass, featuring
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