Thursday, November 29, 2012

5 things to watch for at Amazon cloud conference

  Gartner: SaaS now replacing legacy apps, as well as extending them | Eucalyptus Systems founder sees a bright future for hybrid cloud
 
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5 things to watch for at Amazon cloud conference
Pretty much anyone watching the cloud computing market will tell you that Amazon Web Services is its 800-pound gorilla. Which means that this is a big week for the company: On Wednesday in Las Vegas, Amazon kicks off its first user conference, called AWS re: Invent. Read More


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Gartner: SaaS now replacing legacy apps, as well as extending them
Companies are not only buying into SaaS (software as a service) more than ever, they are also ripping out legacy on-premises applications and replacing them with SaaS, according to analyst firm Gartner. Read More

Eucalyptus Systems founder sees a bright future for hybrid cloud
Will there ever come a time where enterprises just store everything in the public cloud? Probably not, according to Dr Rich Wolski, CTO and co-founder of Eucalyptus Systems. Eucalyptus makes cloud management software for AWS- compatible clouds. While these clouds are private clouds, the key in using Eucalyptus is that you can integrate them easily with public cloud infrastructure on Amazon's market. Read More

Mobile browser vulnerability lets hackers steal cloud computing time
A novel technique based on MapReduce could let hackers hijack computing resources used by cloud-based mobile browsers and use them anonymously, according to security researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Oregon. Read More


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Google integrates Gmail, cloud storage service Drive
Google announced on Tuesday that it has integrated Gmail with its cloud storage service Google Drive. The result is a significant increase in size of documents that can be emailed -- up to 10GB. Read More

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Amazon launches cloud database with analytics tools, lowers S3 pricing
At its first user conference, called AWS re: Invent, Amazon Web Services today launched its newest cloud-based service, called Redshift. Meant to be a petabyte-scale data warehouse, AWS officials say Redshift allows businesses to drop their data warehousing costs by 10 times compared to on-premise systems. Read More


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Red Hat rolls out private PaaS
Red Hat is officially jumping into the cloud platform as a service (PaaS) market. Read More

Building a fortress in the cloud for your critical data
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