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Web Performance Rolls out Load Tester LITE---Tests 1,000,000 Simulated Users for Free

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:27:13 EDT

In a move that removes the limits from free load testing, Web Performance, Inc. has released Load Tester LITE™, a free version of its popular Load Tester PRO™ 5 software. This new version can run test cases with up to 1,000,000 virtual users at no cost from user-hosted servers, or from cloud servers starting at just $1 per hour.

ENR Top Firms Choose Bentley’s ProjectWise for Project Work Sharing and Substantive Collaboration

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:46:12 EDT

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced at this gathering of infrastructure professionals from around the world that an unprecedented number of the highest-ranking ENR Top Design Firms rely on the ProjectWise system of servers and services for work sharing and substantive collaboration. In accordance with Engineering News-Record’s ranking of the 500 largest U.S.-based designs firms published April 23, 2012, ProjectWise is the system of choice for:

Enterprise APIs and OAuth: Have it All

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:00 EDT

Enterprises often frustrate developers. Why do Enterprises always seem so behind when it comes to the very latest technology? In particular, a trend we are seeing is the continued struggle to marry Enterprise authentication with the burgeoning world of REST … Continue reading →

Cloud API Standardization – It’s Time to Get Serious

Thu, 17 May 2012 07:00:00 EDT

Okay – this is easy… or is it? Lots of people continue to perpetuate the idea that the AWS APIs are a de facto standard, so we should just all move on about it. At the same time, everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that Amazon has never ever indicated that they want to be a true standard. Are we reallyIn fact, they have played quite the coy game and kept silent luring potential competitors into a false sense of complacency. Amazon has licensed their APIs to Eucalyptus under what I and others broadly assume to be a a hard and fast restriction to the enterprise private cloud market. I would not be surprised to learn that the restrictions went further – perhaps prohibiting Eucalyptus from offering any other API or claiming compatibility with other clouds.

TraceLink Is a Finalist for the 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Americas Award

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:20:33 EDT

TraceLink Inc., helping businesses securely supply every global market opportunity on-time and in-full with the TraceLink Business Cloud, announced today that it has been selected as a Finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 Americas award, a prestigious list honoring the year's most promising private technology ventures from the North American business region.

HP Cloud Now Available In Beta – A First Look

Wed, 16 May 2012 07:00:00 EDT

HP have joined the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market and released their HP Cloud service in public beta. Here’s the announcement press release. The services on offer are: Available Now as Public Beta

Webinar Recording: Build Real-Time Services in the Amazon Cloud with HTML5 WebSockets

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:52:06 EDT

Watch Ron Renwick, Sr. Product Marketing Manager discuss Kaazing’s cloud offering. The webinar also features a walk-through showcasing the steps of registering with Amazon EC2, launchnig, configuring, and accessing the Kaazing WebSocket Gateway in the cloud. And here you can directly … Continue reading →

ScaleXtreme Controls Amazon EC2 Costs with Budgeting and Enforcement

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:19:10 EDT

ScaleXtreme, the leading provider of server and cloud management products, released new tools for gaining visibility into cloud provider costs, establishing role-based budgets and preventing the launch of unauthorized Amazon EC2 public cloud machines. With this new functionality, ScaleXtreme is the only product on the market that ties together cost monitoring and budgeting to actual server launch control.

X1 Discovery Teams with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Provide eDiscovery and Search in the IaaS Cloud

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:14:48 EDT

X1 Discovery, Inc., a leading enterprise eDiscovery and search software company supporting the cloud and the enterprise, today announced the availability of X1 Rapid Discovery through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solution Provider program. X1 Discovery is the first enterprise eDiscovery company to fully leverage the cloud architecture of AWS by uniquely being able to install and operate in an AWS customer’s IaaS cloud environment. An X1 Rapid Discovery Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is now available in the AWS directory, thus providing for the automated and expedient installation of X1 Rapid Discovery directly into the AWS cloud. This means that AWS clients can now perform powerful on-demand search and eDiscovery of their data within their AWS environments worldwide without first exporting their data out of the cloud. Additionally, law firms and other eDiscovery professionals can now conduct early case assessment (ECA) and first pass review in their own instance of the AWS cloud, as opposed to transferring their client’s data to a vendor’s dedicated SaaS installation for cloud-based eDiscovery.

MSPs Benefit from Cloud-Hosted, Turn-Key, Private-Labeled Desktop Solution from Leostream

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:00:46 EDT

Leostream Corporation, a leading developer of virtual hosted desktop software, announced its Leostream Cloud Desktops Reseller Program. Leostream Cloud Desktops bring secure, reliable access to cloud desktops from any client device. Unlike other solutions on the market, Leostream Cloud Desktops are available for a low monthly fee and have no up-front costs or long term commitments.

Xeround Adds AppHarbor and PHP Fog Integration to Cloud Database

Tue, 15 May 2012 06:00:00 EDT

Xeround, the Cloud Database Company, on Tuesday announced the availability of their database-as-a-service for MySQL applications as an add-on for the AppHarbor .Net platform and for AppFog's PHP Fog PHP platform. Xeround's add-on provides .NET and PHP developers using these platforms with a zero-management, highly available and scalable cloud database solution in just one click. Xeround's add-on on AppHarbor and AppFog platforms provides simple one-click integration between the applications hosted on these platforms and Xeround's Database-as-a-Service. From the users' perspective, all they need to do is add the add-on to their application from within their environment. This automatically creates a MySQL-compatible cloud database that easily connects to their application.

How to configure CloudFront Dynamic Content with CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Mon, 14 May 2012 03:52:18 EDT

Amazon CloudFront has just announced several new features (specific to CloudFront download distributions) that help customers deliver their full website via CloudFront. Customers asked to support delivery of their entire website containing static objects, dynamic content, or a mixture of the two. With these features, the goal is to make it as simple as possible for customers to use CloudFront to speed up delivery of their entire dynamic website they run in Amazon EC2/ELB (or third-party origins), without needing to worry about which URLs should point to CloudFront and which ones should go directly to the origin.
The set of features include:

The ability to specify multiple origin servers

The ability to specify multiple origin servers includes a default origin and available for a CloudFront download distribution. This is useful when customers want to use different origin servers for different types of content. For example, an Amazon S3 bucket can be used as the origin for your static objects and an Amazon EC2 instance as the origin for your dynamic content, all fronted by the same CloudFront distribution domain name. Note that non-AWS origins are also permitted.

The ability to include query string parameters.

Customers will have a switch to turn query strings 'on' or 'off'. When turned off, CloudFront's behavior will be the same as today - i.e., CloudFront will not pass the query string to the origin server nor include query string parameters as a part of the object's cache key. And when query strings are turned on, CloudFront will pass the full URL (including query args) to the origin server and also use the full URL to uniquely identify an object in the cache.

The ability to configure cache behaviors based on URL path patterns.

Each URL path pattern will include a set of cache behaviors associated with it. These cache behaviors include the target origin, a switch for query strings to be on/off, a list of trusted signers for private content, the viewer protocol policy, and the minTTL that CloudFront should apply for that URL path pattern. For example, a path pattern "*.jpg" could have an Amazon S3 bucket as the origin server, query strings set to false, trusted signers disabled, viewer protocol policy of 'allow-all' and a minTTL of 3600. Then, a second path pattern "*.php" could have example.com set as the origin server, query strings set to true, trusted signers enabled with a list of valid signers, viewer protocol policy of 'https-only' and a minTTL of 0. Note that the URL path patterns should be listed in the order that CloudFront should process for matching the request URL. There must also be a default cache behavior that CloudFront should use when none of the URL path patterns are a match.

Note that the features above are specific to download distributions only. CloudFront functionality for streaming distributions remains unchanged.

The latest version of CloudBerry Explorer comes with full support of aforementioned features. To take advantage of the new features you will have to select advanced configuration option

there is a special step for specifying multiple origins

you have a choice between Amazon S3 and custom origin. for s3 origin you can also enable Private Content and specify the origins access identity.

For custom origin you specify DNS name and other parameters

There is another step for configuring the Default Cache Behavior

And yet another step for custom Cache Behavior

Click Add to create a Pattern

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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 3.4 and later.

As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.

CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/free

CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO is a Windows program that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/pro It is priced at $39.99

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Amazon Web Services Launches Dynamic Content Support in Amazon CloudFront

Mon, 14 May 2012 03:36:00 EDT

Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), on Monday launched support for dynamic content in Amazon CloudFront. This new capability gives AWS customers a simple, cost-effective way to improve the performance, reliability and global reach of their website by using Amazon CloudFront to deliver all their content, including the dynamic portions of their site that change for each end-user. Amazon CloudFront works seamlessly with dynamic applications running in Amazon EC2, without any custom coding or proprietary configurations, making the service simple to deploy and manage. And, because Amazon CloudFront charges the same low rates for both static and dynamic content, customers can now accelerate all of the content on their website for a low price, without any up-front fees or long term commitments. For more information about delivering dynamic content with Amazon CloudFront, visit http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront.

A Million Monkeys Demonstrate the Power of Hadoop

Sat, 12 May 2012 09:00:00 EDT

There are many great use cases for Apache Hadoop, the open source framework for scalable, reliable, and distributed computing on commodity hardware built around Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce, such as delivering search engine results, sequencing genomes, and indexing entire libraries of text, but the Million Monkeys Project by Jesse Anderson may be the easiest to understand and the most fun.

How to encrypt file names with CloudBerry Backup

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:30:00 EDT

CloudBerry S3 Backup is a powerful Windows program that automate backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage.

In the newer release we are introducing an option to encrypt file and folder names on the cloud storage for the increased security. To enable this option simply check the Encrypt file names check box on the Encryption and Compression step of the Backup Wizard.

As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.

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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Backup 2.5 and later.

CloudBerry Backup is a Windows program that leverages Amazon S3 storage. You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/backup. It comes with onetime fee of $29.99 (US) per copy.

CloudBerry Backup for WHS is a Windows Home Server add-in that leverages Amazon S3 storage. You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/whs. It comes with onetime fee of $29.99 (US) per copy.

CloudBerry Backup Server Edition. is a Windows program designed to run in server environment that leverages Amazon S3 storage. You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/server. It comes with onetime fee of $79.99 (US) per copy.

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giffgaff: Samsung Galaxy S 3 – Get the best handset deals

Fri, 11 May 2012 09:07:20 EDT

We’ve been patiently awaiting the release of Samsung’s new Samsung Galaxy S3 due to launch at the end of May. The handset, available now to pre-order can be purchased via a contract with monthly payments over a 24 month period from many network providers, but is there a cheaper way to get your hands on Samsung’s new flagship device. We’ve been looking at the cheapest way to get the Samsung Galaxy S 3, and are pretty sure, there’s a much cheaper way to purchase this device. With a monthly SIM-only giffgaff goodybag, it may be cheaper to purchase a brand-new handset outright, as opposed to tying yourself down to a 24 month contract with a major network provider.

AWS and SAP Announce Certification of AWS Infrastructure for SAP Business All-in-One

Fri, 11 May 2012 03:01:00 EDT

Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), on Friday announced the expansion of SAP certified solutions on AWS including SAP Business All-in-One solutions for both Linux and Windows, and expanded certification for SAP Rapid Deployment solutions and SAP Business Objects business intelligence (BI) solutions to include Windows Server 2008 R2. Today’s announcements provide customers the flexibility to rapidly deploy SAP solutions on the scalable, on-demand AWS platform without making long-term commitments or costly capital expenditures for their underlying infrastructure. As more enterprises seek to understand cost savings of cloud deployments, Germany based consulting firm, VMS AG has also announced industry research that finds running SAP applications on AWS provides infrastructure cost savings of up to 69% compared to the same solution on-premises. For more information on deploying SAP solutions on AWS as well as detailed research on infrastructure cost savings of running SAP solutions on AWS, visit http://aws.amazon.com/sap

CloudBerry Lab supports HP Cloud

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:46:47 EDT

We are glad to announce that our product now fully compatible with HP Cloud which is based on Open Stack.

CloudBerry Explorer freeware and CloudBerry Explorer PRO file manages both have an option to connect to the HP Cloud Storage.

With CloudBerry Explorer you can

Register and connect to any number of HP Cloud accounts
Work with any number of HP Cloud accounts simultaneously
Create, browse, and delete HP Cloud files
Create, browse, and delete folders
Copy and move files between HP Cloud and your local computer
Create Containers
List Containers
Update container metadata
Container ACL (public/ private)
Delete Containers
Upload/ Download files
Copy/ Move files
Delete files
Rename files
View files
Generate URL for files
View files properties
Copy/Move in background
Synchronize folders
Storage Capacity reports
Copy files from Windows Explorer

CloudBerry Backup is a powerful Windows program that automate backup and restore processes to HP Cloud Storage.

With CloudBerry Backup you can:

Easy installation and configuration
Scheduling capabilities
Data encryption
Data retention schedule
Secure online storage
Data versioning
Block level backup - backup only modified portions of files
Virtual Disk - expose Amazon S3 storage as a local disk on your computer
The ability to restore to a particular date
Backup verification
Alerting notifications

As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.

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CloudBerry Backup is a Windows program that leverages Amazon S3 storage. You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/backup. It comes with onetime fee of $29.99 (US) per copy.

CloudBerry Backup for WHS is a Windows Home Server add-in that leverages Amazon S3 storage. You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/whs. It comes with onetime fee of $29.99 (US) per copy.

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Basho Named 2012 Network Products Guide Hot Company Award Winner

Thu, 10 May 2012 09:00:23 EDT

Basho Technologies, the leader in distributed database technologies, announced today that it has been named a Hot Company winner in Network Products Guide's 2012 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards. These industry and peer recognitions from Network Products Guide are the world's premier information technology awards honoring achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry. Winners from all over the world were honored in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 during the 7th annual awards dinner and presentations.

CloudBees Platform as a Service Now Available on HP Cloud Services

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:45:11 EDT

CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, announced today the CloudBees PaaS is available on HP Cloud Services. CloudBees provides users the flexibility to deploy and manage applications across a variety of data center environments. HP Cloud Services is the newest addition to the list of CloudBees AnyCloud deployment options.

Xeround Announces Availability of Popular Cloud Database on HP Cloud Services

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:45:10 EDT

Xeround, the Cloud Database Company, today announced the availability of their database-as-a-service for MySQL applications on HP Cloud Services (http://hpcloud.com).

Amazon Enters Microsoft’s Turf of .NET PaaS

Thu, 10 May 2012 05:00:00 EDT

The PaaS competition heats up with Amazon adding ASP.NET support to its AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment and MS SQL Server to the Amazon RDS offerings. This is a significant announcement from Amazon as it draws the battle lines with Microsoft which is aggressively positioning Windows Azure as the .NET Cloud offering to the developer community. [...]

T-Mobile USA Reports First Quarter 2012 Operating Results

Thu, 10 May 2012 01:01:05 EDT

T-Mobile USA, Inc. today reported first quarter 2012 results and provided an update on its 2011 annual assessment of indefinite-lived assets. In the first quarter of 2012, T-Mobile USA reported adjusted OIBDA of $1.27 billion, up 7.2% from $1.19 billion reported in the first quarter of 2011 and branded contract ARPU in the first quarter of 2012 of $58, up from $56 in the first quarter of 2011. Additionally, net customer additions were 187,000 in the first quarter of 2012, compared to 99,000 net customer losses in the first quarter of 2011.

Amazon Web Services Announces First Global Customer and Partner Conference: AWS re: Invent

Wed, 09 May 2012 17:00:32 EDT

Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced AWS re: Invent, its first global customer and partner conference. The conference will take place November 27-29, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada at The Venetian hotel and will include more than 100 sessions such as hands-on workshops, cloud computing strategy sessions and technical deep dives delivered by the AWS team and AWS customers and partners. Attendees will learn how to leverage AWS services and features for a variety of popular use cases such as big data analytics, high performance computing, disaster recovery, web applications, mobile and game development, and enterprise IT applications. The AWS engineering and service teams will lead hands-on workshops throughout the conference and will be available in the developer lounge to answer technical questions each day of the conference.

Amazon Web Services Announces First Global Customer and Partner Conference: AWS re: Invent

Wed, 09 May 2012 16:02:19 EDT

Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced AWS re: Invent, its first global customer and partner conference. The conference will take place November 27-29, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada at The Venetian hotel and will include more than 100 sessions such as hands-on workshops, cloud computing strategy sessions and technical deep dives delivered by the AWS team and AWS customers and partners. Attendees will learn how to leverage AWS services and features for a variety of popular use cases such as big data analytics, high performance computing, disaster recovery, web applications, mobile and game development, and enterprise IT applications. The AWS engineering and service teams will lead hands-on workshops throughout the conference and will be available in the developer lounge to answer technical questions each day of the conference.

TraceLink Business Cloud Selected as a 2012 MITX Innovation Awards Finalist

Wed, 09 May 2012 11:42:45 EDT

TraceLink Inc., helping businesses securely supply every global market opportunity on-time and in-full, today announced that the TraceLink Business Cloud has been selected as a finalist in the Best Business Operations Simplifier category for the MITX Innovation Awards. Held annually by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, the MITX Innovation Awards celebrate the innovations powering the future of marketing and revolutionizing the way we work and play.

Aquilent Adds Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US) Region to GSA IT-70 Schedule

Wed, 09 May 2012 08:45:31 EDT

Aquilent, the leader in Federal cloud computing strategy and implementation, today announced that it has added Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US) Region to its GSA Information Technology Schedule-70 (IT-70). This addition to Aquilent’s GSA IT-70 Schedule gives the government easier, more affordable access to premiere cloud services, supported by Aquilent’s highly strategic and consultative approach to technology strategy and infrastructure.

SafeNet Delivers Industry’s First Licensing and Monetization Solution for Hybrid On-Premise and Cloud-based Software Portfolios

Wed, 09 May 2012 08:30:27 EDT

SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in data protection, today announced enhancements to its award-winning Sentinel software monetization solution, Sentinel Cloud, that enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to easily license and monetize their on-premise, hybrid, and cloud-based solutions.

Designing Applications for the Cloud

Wed, 09 May 2012 06:00:00 EDT

When designing applications for the cloud, or extending on-premise applications into the cloud, it should go without saying that you can't just deploy and expect good results.

Xeround Announces Availability of Popular Cloud Database on Rackspace Cloud UK Datacenter

Wed, 09 May 2012 03:00:00 EDT

Xeround, the Cloud Database Company, today announced the availability of their database-as-a-service for MySQL applications on Rackspace Cloud UK datacenter.

CloudBerry Backup: Store Backup Plan Configuration on the Cloud

Wed, 09 May 2012 01:29:00 EDT

CloudBerry S3 Backup is a powerful Windows program that automate backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage. In the newer release we are introducing an option to store the backup plan configuration on the cloud. This is useful in the recovery scenario when you want to get your backup plans configuration back after the failure. in the previous releases you had to re-create backup plans manually. It is also now possible to export backup plan configuration and import it on other machines so that the backup plans are consistent across your organization.

Amazon Web Services Announces New Managed Services for Windows Developers Worldwide

Tue, 08 May 2012 17:00:45 EDT

Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced new managed services for Windows developers with the worldwide launch of Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) for Microsoft SQL Server and ASP.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Businesses can now take advantage of the managed database and application services to deploy, manage and scale SQL Server databases and ASP.NET applications using familiar Microsoft tools. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. To get started with Amazon RDS for SQL Server and AWS Elastic Beanstalk, visit http://aws.amazon.com/rds/sqlserver and http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk.

Free Webinar: Build Real-Time Services in the Amazon Cloud with HTML5 WebSockets

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:37:11 EDT

Join Ron Renwick, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Kaazing for a free Webinar discussing how you can build real-time applications using Kaazing WebSocket Gateway on Amazon EC2, connecting your backend messaging systems all the way to the end user, leveraging … Continue reading →

UC Irvine Extension Announces New Summer Amazon Web Services Online Course

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:22:21 EDT

University of California, Irvine Extension announced today the launch of a new online course titled ‘Amazon Web Services for Java Developers.’ The course will address a variety of JavaEE concepts and techniques, and will be held from July 25 through September 9. UC Irvine Extension will also offer a free webinar titled ‘Amazon Web Services for Java Developers’, which will be held on Thursday June 7 from 11:30am to 12:30 pm PDT. The webinar will cover trends impacting cloud computing and the larger web development industry.

Aryaka and Amazon Web Services Create an Optimized Cloud Experience Anywhere in the World

Tue, 08 May 2012 09:02:33 EDT

Aryaka, the world's first cloud-based WAN optimization and application acceleration solution, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) LLC, an Amazon.com company and the leader in cloud computing (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced they have brought to market a solution that delivers a unified infrastructure for accessing global cloud and enterprise resources. Aryaka provides an optimized network that ensures IT application instances running on AWS behave as if they were on the local network with any-to-any connectivity, regardless of where end-users are located around the world.

Highlights of the New Kaazing Web Site

Fri, 04 May 2012 04:03:56 EDT

We’re very proud of the new dress kaazing.com got recently. While the design is brand new, there’s a lot of new content to be discovered as well. Here are some of the highlights of the new site: Kaazing in the Cloud: … Continue reading →

Shelly Palmer Radio Report – May 4, 2012

Fri, 04 May 2012 03:01:00 EDT

Samsung has unveiled the much anticipated, Samsung Galaxy S3. This new smartphone has a simple mission, be the best Android smartphone you can buy – and, although it won’t hit the States until this summer, it may be just that. The Samsung Galaxy S3 features a big, bright 4.8 inch HD screen, an 8 MP [...]

Quad Samsung Galaxy S3 Released with New Design and Amazing Functions

Thu, 03 May 2012 23:44:31 EDT

It is really big news that the long and hot rumored Samsung Galaxy S3 was finally released in London. We have previously written an article when the full specifications of Samsung Galaxy S3 were leaked. It drew lot of attention and received many replies that absolutely there are many people who are looking forward to [...]

Architecting for the Cloud Using Amazon Web Services

Thu, 03 May 2012 06:15:00 EDT

Using Amazon web services for elasticity and scale to build cloud applications. Traditional IT environments that are built using physical servers can only scale and grow by buying new hardware and software and taking time to install and rack the hardware, configure the software and the application. If/when the excess capacity is not needed the servers stand idle consuming power, cooling and rackspace. This is inefficient and a waste of money. Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows customers to scale using elastic demand. Just like a rubber elastic band stretches to accommodate more items , AWS provides elastic computing to allow a customer to scale up (or down); to grow or shrink their architecture quickly efficiently with minimal intervention. The following is a summary of an AWS whitepaper and webinar that describes how you can use AWS to architect your system for the cloud.

Amazon and the Enterprise IT Monoculture Myth

Thu, 03 May 2012 06:00:00 EDT

I didn’t know whether I should chuckle cynically or slow clap the recent hubris of an Amazon executive, quoted in InformationWeek, with a tech prediction set to be fulfilled in a mere ten years: Amazon: Era Of Data Centers Ending: The era in which most big companies operate their own data centers is coming to [...]

Is AWS Marketplace an Oversimplification of the Cloud?

Thu, 03 May 2012 05:00:00 EDT

Recently Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Marketplace. It is certainly a welcome move that brings all the available software on Amazon EC2 under one roof. This is especially good for ISVs to get visibility and become more accessible to potential customers. The interface inherits the classic look and feel of Amazon shopping experience [...]

VMware's CloudFoundry Platform: A Fork in the Road to the Cloud?

Thu, 03 May 2012 05:00:00 EDT

Over a year ago, I wrote my initial thoughts on VMware's CloudFoundry PaaS platform. Over the past year, the platform has read more

Google BigQuery and the Github Data Challenge

Tue, 01 May 2012 18:31:44 EDT

Github has made data on its code repositories, developer updates, forks etc. from the public GitHub timeline available for analysis, and is offering prizes for the most interesting visualization of the data. Sounds like a great challenge for R programmers! The R language is currently the 26th most popular on GitHub (up from #29 in December), and it would be interesting to visualize the usage of R compared to other languages, for example. The deadline for submissions to the contest is May 21. Interestingly, GitHub has made this data available on the Google BigQuery service, which is available to the... David Smith

Amazon EC2 Vet and Nimbula Co-Founder and CEO to Speak at Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group's IaaS Series This Wednesday

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:00:00 EDT

Lingotek | The Translation Network Now Available in Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US) Region

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:00:08 EDT

Lingotek | The Translation Network and leader in collaborative translation solutions, announced today that the Lingotek Collaborative Translation Platform will be available in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US) Region, enabling United States government agencies and contractors to translate workloads in an open cloud environment that also complies with export control regulations limiting access to U.S. persons.

AMAZON.COM ANNOUNCES FIRST QUARTER SALES UP 34% TO $13.18 BILLION; 16 OF THE TOP 100 BESTSELLING TITLES ARE EXCLUSIVE TO THE KINDLE STORE

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:32:52 EDT

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2012.

Tiny Prints Collaborates with BrightEdge to Prove the Impact of Twitter on Organic Search

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:47:03 EDT

StillSecure Joins Amazon Web Services Solution Providers Program to Drive Cloud Security

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:31:23 EDT

StillSecure®, a managed network security solutions and certified compliance company, announced today that it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solution Providers Program. The AWS Solution Providers Program allows systems integrators, interactive agencies, independent software vendors (ISVs) and channel partners to broaden their offerings, markets and customer bases. StillSecure plans to deliver a number of security solutions aimed at protecting AWS customers from potential on-line security threats.

Dome9 Security Introduces 1-Click Cloud Server Secure Access

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:17:00 EDT

Dome9 Security, the leading provider of cloud security firewall management for public and private clouds, as well as for dedicated and virtual private servers (VPS), today announced the availability of Dome9 Instant Access for Google Chrome, a new browser-based application enabling one-click secure access to any server and any cloud for Google Chrome users.

Panera Bread Company Reports Q1 2012 Diluted EPS of $1.40, up 28%

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:00:40 EDT

Panera Bread Company (NASDAQ: PNRA)