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Amazon Built 42nd Fastest Computer in the World Without Trying [Amazon]





For the past several years, Amazon has been quietly building one of the fastest cloud networks in the history of computers. Except it doesn't exist in any room—it's spread across the entire world. Vi...
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Google Bolsters Music Beta With New Magnifier Blog

Google Music Beta, the search giant’s music streaming service, launched earlier this summer to tepid reviews before drifting into the background after the much-ballyhooed release of Spotify in the United States. While garnering praise for its aud...
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Spotify Has 1.4 Million Users in the US, 175,000 Who Pay

As you may recall, streaming music service Spotify leaped across the pond to American users last month with the blessing of the major music labels. For those of you who don't recall, Spotify is trying to do for music what Netflix Instant ...
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VMware CEO Paul Maritz Talks About the Cloud Monster, Microsoft and More! (Video)

Yesterday, in a bid to stay ahead in the hyper-competitive virtualization space, VMware announced a major upgrade to its flagship product, vSphere, and also a range of other improvements to its offerings.
Moving fast is a good idea as the Palo Alto, Cali...
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Gathering Storm: As VMware "Monsters" Up, Citrix Buys Cloud.com

At a live event in San Francisco today, virtualization giant VMware unveiled what it called a “monster” of a cloud infrastructure suite, upgrading its flagship VMware vSphere, even as rival Citrix forked over more than $200 million for Silico...
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MongoDB Hosting Matrix
Maurício Maia put together a price comparison for MongoDB hosting:

Credit Maurício Maia
Additionally there’s also the matrix of MongoDB hosting features. While far from being exhaustive, these MongoDB hosting matrix are meant to give you an idea of wha...
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CouchDB Queue Service: Amazon SQS API-compatible
CouchDB Queue Service: Amazon SQS API-compatible: Neat idea that could prove pretty useful in development environments:

CQS is a message queue system, using Apache CouchDB. It is exactly like Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). The API is the same. Everyt...
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Is iCloud Running On Microsoft & Amazon Cloud Services?
We know Apple is building a huge datacenter that’s five times the size of any of its existing datacenters. We’ve long suspected that this datacenter will form the foundation infrastructure for iCloud, and with confirmation of iCloud’s ex...
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iCloud could cost $25 a year after free start
Apple’s iCloud, which it will announce at the WWDC next week, may cost $25 a year after a free period at launch, the LA Times reports.
It also claims that 70% of revenue from iCloud will go to record labels, 12% to music publishers, and 18% for Appl...
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Sinatra with Redis on Cloud Foundry

The workshop takes you through creating a Sinatra application using sample code from here . Once the Sinatra application which leverages Twitter is working, the workshop then takes you through adding Redis to your application. Finally the workshop ends a...
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Video: Om Talks About $6 Million Giga-Funding
Yesterday, I slogged through the rain to the downtown San Francisco HQ of the GigaOM Network to visit with tech blogging pioneer Om Malik.
He just got $6 million more in funding, bringing the total for the tech new and research company to $15 million. Ree...
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Microsoft releases Azure toolkit for iOS
TNW Quick Hit:
Just over a month after the company released the Azure toolkit for Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has done the same for iOS, and Android is next in line.
The company is determined to grow the popularity of Azure, even outside of its home court....
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How to Use Spotify in the U.S. with a VPN Service [Video]






When we called Spotify the best desktop music player we've ever used, we meant it—and now that it syncs with iOS and Android devices, it's even better. The trouble is, due to licensing restrictions,...
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Spotify Totally Just Added iPod Sync to its Streaming and (New) Download Service [Music]






Woah. Spotify users—and I hope that's most of the Europeans reading this—have no reason to continue using iTunes. They've just rejigged their download service so you can download tracks in the...
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Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie to lead Azure Application Platform team
TNW Quick Hit:
In an expected move, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of the .Net platform, Scott Guthrie, will be heading over to lead the new Azure Application Platform team.
This shuffling of personnel outlines how important the success of Azu...
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5 Tips To Avoid Troubles In The Cloud
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Couple of days ago I had to review an agreement on cloud computing services that one of the major suppliers in this realm had submitted. When I went through the terms and conditions, I could not gain the i...
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Calling the Internet Police [Security]






Life in the cloud is all well and good until a server goes down. Tweetage Wasteland's David Pell posits on the pitfalls of entrusting our offline lives to online services. More »



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As the minicomputer brought Oracle, will the cloud bring a new database?
As the minicomputer brought Oracle, will the cloud bring a new database?:
The question I think about a lot is what changes will cloud computing bring to the database industry. Will cloud be the platform change that ushers in a new generation of database ...
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Multi-tenancy and Cloud Storage Performance
Multi-tenancy and Cloud Storage Performance: Adrian Cockcroft[1] has a great explanation of the impact of multi-tenancy on cloud storage performance. The connection with NoSQL databases is not necessarily in the Amazon EBS and SSD Price, Performance, QoS ...
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Amazon EC2 Cassandra Cluster with DataStax AMI
Amazon EC2 Cassandra Cluster with DataStax AMI:
This AMI does the following:
installs Cassandra 0.7.4 on a Ubuntu 10.10 image
configures emphemeral disks in raid0, if applicable (EBS is a bad fit for Cassandra
configures Cassandra to use the root volume ...
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The 25 Most Influential People Tweeting About Cloud Computing
In 2009, cloud computing went mainstream to become one of the biggest tech buzzwords of the year 2010. “Take it to the cloud!” has become a popular motto for large enterprises, small businesses and start ups. Cloud computing services exist alo...
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Sydney start-up OrionVM develops world’s fastest cloud storage
Sydney-based cloud computing service OrionVM launched today, and according to cloud benchmarking site Cloud Harmony, has the fastest network-backed storage performance in the world.
The project began in a dorm room in early 2010 as a collaboration between...
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Set Up an Automated, Bulletproof File Back Up Solution [How To]






More and more, the fragments of your life exist as particles on a disk mounted inside your computer—disks susceptible to temperature changes, power surges, fire, theft, static, and just plain wear a...
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NoSQL & Cloud at Netflix
NoSQL & Cloud at Netflix: Today Netflix can be seen as a leader in what can be achieved by combining cloud computing and polyglot persistence. Not only that, but Netflix has chosen to share their experience with everyone else so we can all learn from thei...
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The journey to Me 1.0: why the future of the Web could be all about us
“The Internet is not working to its full potential, not yet….The Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing. The Web is a presentation layer, but it’s not the only way. HTML is a perfectly good way to mark up information on w...
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Microsoft just scooped up 666,624 IPv4 addresses for $7.5 million
Microsoft has purchased 666,624 IPv4 addresses from the bankrupt networking vendor Nortel Netorks after a period of competitive bidding.
The 7.5 million dollars that Microsoft spent on the IPv4 addresses roughly breaks down to a per-unit price of $11.25. ...
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Cloud IDE lets you develop in the cloud
Cloud IDE is a web app that brings your development workstation to the cloud and allows you to work on your projects from anywhere.
The app is currently in private beta, though I found my acceptance was almost instantaneous and the IDE domain was set up i...
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Stormy weather for cloud converts? Not hardly.
Oh pundits, how you make me laugh. In case you missed the news today, Google has had some problems with a very small number of Gmail users. Somewhere in the neighborhood of less than 1/3 of 1 percent of all Gmail users were affected. While the grand schem...
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Amazon EBS vs SSD: Price, Performance, QoS
Amazon EBS vs SSD: Price, Performance, QoS: Check the numbers and run your own tests. But their results are striking:

To summarize:
Server one in the datacenter is maybe a $10k machine with a $3000 disk array (say $4000 total per year plus colo costs, if...
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Satya Nadella’s first email to the entire Server and Tools team
Just moments ago we brought you the news that Satya Nadella would be taking over as president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business division. His first missive to the team at large has now gone out, and we have the text from the note.
Nadella rep...
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How to enhance productivity in the human cloud
The way we work is changing. For the majority of the world that relies on the Internet for work, we are always connected. Therefore at its base- we are always able to be productive, and as a result, the 9-5 is nearly dead.
I’ve been a freelance edit...
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Microsoft’s upcoming ‘Concero’ will be a new weapon against VMware
Microsoft is working on the construction of a new tool for its cloud offerings called ‘Concero.’ Concero is a “cloud management portal” that will “allow customers to oversee both on-premises and cloud-based services,” a...
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Forrester report: SQL Azure Raises the Bar on Cloud Databases
Got the link to this Forrester report about SQL Azure (PDF) authored by Noel Yuhanna from the SQL Azure - The Year in Review:

Most customers stated that SQL Azure delivers a reliable cloud database platform to support various small to moderately sized ap...
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Preliminary Comparison of Database.com and SQL Azure Features and Capabilities
Preliminary Comparison of Database.com and SQL Azure Features and Capabilities: Extensive comparison of the upcoming Database.com and Microsoft’s SQL Azure:

Salesforce.com will unbundle its underlying relational database engine from Force.com when the fi...
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Launch Party 10 In Their Own Words: NodeFly [TNW Canada]
I know I hang out in a pretty geeky crowd, but it seems that a lot of businesses today depend on their servers being up. Generally we pull this off with server monitoring tools and services. Which is great until you need to add another server. Okay, fine,...
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Riak SmartMachine Benchmark: The Technical Details
Riak SmartMachine Benchmark: The Technical Details: Remember the Riak in the Joyent cloud benchmark? There’s a post providing many more details about the tests run:

The goal of the study was to demonstrate a baseline for users to understand Riak’s perfor...
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Super VC Andreessen and eBay's John Donahoe on Mobile Payments, Love Notes in the Cloud and More!

No love notes in the cloud for Marc Andreessen, maybe–but everything else is fair game.
That’s one of the funnier exchanges in an onstage interview BoomTown did earlier this week with Andreessen, the well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur and...
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eBay To Use Microsoft Cloud Computing Technology

eBay will start using Microsoft’s cloud computing platform appliance Windows Azure in their datacenters starting this year. The announcement came today at  Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington DC.
eBay has already been testi...
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A review of Cloud Application Architectures by George Reese
Cloud Application Architectures

Cloud Application Architectures. By George Reese, O’Reilly 2009. (Here’s a link to the publisher’s site).

This is a great book on how to build apps in the cloud! I was happy to see how much depth ...
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Under-provisioning: the curse of the cloud
A common problem I see people running into when using a cloud computing service is the trap of under-provisioning. There’s a chain effect that leads to this result: 1) people don’t understand how virtualization works, and therefore 2) they do...
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Back Up Your Cloud-Stored Memories With These Free Tools [Memory Forever]






Today I'd like to talk to you about...backing up. I don't just mean connecting an external hard drive to your laptop and transferring all your files over. I'm talking 'bout backing up the cloud. More&n...
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This Is the Cloud: Inside Microsoft's Secret Stealth Data Centers [Memory Forever]






"The cloud" isn't some nebulous thing existing just beyond your computer's consciousness. As Microsoft showed us, it's stacks of hard drives packed into shipping containers, parked in secret data centers ...
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The MyDitto NAS Could Be The Simplest Cloud-Accessible Storage Solution [Storage]
If you are looking for a network storage solution that you can access remotely, the MyDitto could be one of the simplest and surprisingly cost effective solutions out there. I say "could" because it's impossible to pass judgement on the MyDitto without kn...
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