Sunday, April 3, 2011

Amazon Rain Cloud?

Amazon's new Cloud Drive rains on everyone's parade
The Guardian
The proximate cause of all this corporate spleen is the launch last week of Amazon'sCloud Drive service. At first sight, it seems straightforward: it looks like a digital locker in which one may (for a fee) securely store one's digital assets in the ...
Weekly Poll: Is Your Cloud Deployment Taking Advantage of What the Cloud Offers?
ReadWriteWeb
By Alex Williams / April 2, 2011 5:07 PM / 0 Comments This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloudcomputing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how IBM ...
NUTS: Cloud Music, Mobile Payment Heat Up
Mobiledia
By Allen Tsai | Sat Apr 02, 2011 6:56 pm Amazon may have angered record companies by rushing out its cloud-based music service, while a spate of tech titans are racing to roll out mobile payment systems. Meanwhile, Apple is readying its iPhone 5, ...

Federal Government to crack down on businesses saving data to the 'cloud ...
NEWS.com.au
Some Australian firms are using overseas "cloud computing", which stores data remotely, to cut costs or meet fewer regulation standards. Addresses, financial information and medical records can be collated by businesses. ...
Mother Ships, the App World and a Sense of What's to Come
ReadWriteWeb
By Alex Williams / April 2, 2011 11:30 AM / 0 Comments This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how IBM ...
Fake Facebook Girlfriends are Newest Cloud Service
PCWorld
Analysis: Cloud Girlfriend offers lonely pathetic guys a fake Facebook ladyfriend to fool their friends -- a geek's dream? By Dan Tynan, ITworld You gotta love the cloud. These days you can pull practically anything from the electronic ether -- music, ...
Amazon Cloud Player: Buy Once, Listen Everywhere
The Business Insider
The marketing graphic looks similar: the application across different devices: So it's no surprise that the Amazon Cloud Player marketing unit looks almost exactly the same as the Kindle's: “Play your music anywhere.” It's also not surprising that ...
Microsoft System Center & XenServer Together Opening Up the Cloud
DABCC.com
In case you had not seen the news, Microsoft is coming out with a greatly enhanced version of System Center that is heavily focused on the cloud. Microsoft, like Citrix, is clearly seeing the increase of applications in the cloud...
KPMG installs Cisco/EMC/VMware Vblock cloud platform
iTWire
By Stuart Corner KPMG Australia has converted its data centre to a private cloud with a Vblock infrastructure platform that includes hardware and software from Cisco, EMC and VMware. According to Cisco, "KPMG will internally deploy the solution so that ...
Tech Week: 3DS launch failures and Amazon's Cloud Player
T3
Yet another busy week in tech has passed us by, here are our highlights from the past seven days, enjoy. Nintendo's 3DS made the headlines a lot this week but not always for the right reasons. Users reported eye strain and headaches although Nintendo ...
AMD Aims Enterprise Chips at Cloud, Virtualization
DABCC.com
Enterprise computing increasingly will hinge on cloud computing and virtualization, and Advanced Micro Devices' server chip road map dovetails nicely with that trend, according to a company executive. In a recent interview with eWEEK here, ...
Appko Announces Appko Cloud Training - Cisco UCS for Virtual Private Clouds
SunHerald.com
Appko Cloud is a virtual private cloud (VPC) utilizing Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and VMware. Appko Cloud Training is a part of a new series of services for organizations looking to adopt cloud computing. Appko Cloud Training is different ...
Cloud solution for action game
GameDev.net
Third, Are cloud solutions fitting well to my situation? I mean if I write a java standalone app and upload it to google's cloud solution, what issues I might have? Since games are technically just loops iterated many times even when idle, ...
Webtop in the clouds
The Hindu
Designed to connect to a remote server running a virtual operating system, this tablet that has no hard drive, will work on the cloud computing concept, with each user assigned 50 GB of storage in the clouds. Costing much lower than the average tablet, ...

Tablets are growing, and computing is heading for the cloud
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
We'll look at QRcodes -- those crossword-like squares that are popping up in printed ads -- as well as a summarize developments in tablets and cloud computing. You may have noticed little boxes filled with black and white squares in some ads recently. ...
Weekly Poll: Is Your Cloud Deployment Taking Advantage of What the ...
By Alex Williams
We talk about the cloud all the time so it's easy to overlook what the differences are between traditional servers and a cloud infrastructure. In a guest ...
Ten Commandments of the Cloud « High Tech in the Hub
By Joe Kinsella
I am the great and powerful Amazon, maker of the public cloud and provider of books and diapers. I brought you out of the land of physical infrastructure, rescuing you from the bondage of IT Satan's data center.
Amazon Cloud Player: Buy Once, Listen Everywhere
By Ryan Spoon
Amazon's marketing message for the Kindle is simple: buy once, read everywhere. It's ...
My Latest Intro to Cloud Computing Article Has Been Published ...
By Seth Eliot
Creating services in the cloud enables new capabilities and features to improve your product and empower your team. But the cloud also introduces challenges as to how to build and test such services. This introduction to the cloud shows ...
The Cloud Ate My Job! ("Cloudy April" - Part 2) - Full of I.T. ...
By Kevin Remde
This is a blog of Microsoft Software, technology, and IT Pro-related news, musings, and rants by Kevin Remde, IT Pro Evangelist - Microsoft.
Site Home - http://blogs.technet.com/
Review: Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player | GeekBeat.TV
By Andy Martin
I wrote earlier about the bomb that Amazon dropped on Apple in their surprise launch ofCloud Player and the Cloud Drive. I've been anxiously awaiting Apple's .
GeekBeat.TV - http://geekbeat.tv/
The Top 100 Bloggers on Cloud Computing | Cloud Computing Journal
Ever since I first published here my tentative list of Top 50 Bloggers on Cloud Computing it became clear that an expansion would be needed before too long. Thanks to community feedback via my Twitter account (http://twitter.com/jg21) ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal - http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/
Amazon Cloud Drive - The Future Of Cloud Storage And Sharing ...
By cloudtweaks
The Future Of Cloud Storage And Sharing... The online cloud storage business has always been a really interesting industry. Companies such as Box.net, Amazon Sky Drive, Google Docs...
How To Use the Amazon Cloud Player on Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod ...
By mysticgeek
The other we covered the Amazon Cloud Player and how you can get 20 GB of free storage. We also mentioned in the article that it doesn't work with iOS devices. Here we'll show you a work around for playing songs on your iPhone, iPad, ...
Amazon Cloud Drive: Learn More
Upload your music, photos, videos, and documents from your computer to your AmazonCloud Drive. You'll never lose your files from a hard drive crash or a ...
Cloud Girlfriend - The Social Network Girlfriend
The best way to get a girlfriend is to already have one. Get in line early for an invite code. #launch.
Cloud Sites - Rackspace
The Rackspace Cloud™ On-demand, scalable, application, storage & web hosting, supported 24x7x365. Rackspace Email & Apps Business class hosting for ...
Amazon Cloud Player goes live, streams music on your computer and ...
Oh snap! Look who just ate Apple and Google's lunch here? Minutes ago, Amazon rolled out its very own music streaming service which is conveniently.
Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player (review) | The Download Blog ...
CNET reviews Amazon.com's cloud-based storage for media and files, including music, videos, photos, and documents. Read this blog post by Donald Bell on The ...
Amazon Cloud Player: First Impressions
Here are some of our initial thoughts about Amazon Cloud Player and its companion Android app.
Amazon Cloud Player puts your music on the Web - Faster Forward ...
Amazon launched a Web music-storage and playback service that lets music fans listen to their music from a wide variety of Internet-connected devices--but ...
Cloud Girlfriend
The latest on Cloud Girlfriend, an unusual startup.
With Amazon's Cloud Player, the network is the cable
Video: Amazon's new Cloud Player forgoes syncing with your devices, and lets you stream your music to any device with a wi-fi signal. ...
Amazon Cloud Player lets you play your music from anywhere - CNN
Amazon has just entered the streaming music business with the launch of CloudPlayer, a music player that lets anyone upload their music to Amazon's servers ...
Amazon on Cloud Player: we don't need no stinkin' licenses
Amazon has apparently launched Cloud Drive and Cloud Player without securing streaming licenses from the music industry. But does it need to?

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