Submitted by Jo Maitland, Tuesday, February 7, 2012
This article discusses “The API economy” which it claims represents such an important technology trend that new business models are developing on top of them. The API economy encompasses API developers, the businesses providing the APIs, the businesses hosting APIs, and app developers. Read more on external site »
- Submitted by Jo Maitland, Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Amazon S3 standard storage customers will see a reduction in their storage costs. If you store 50 TB of data on average you will see a 12% reduction in your storage costs, and if you store 500 TB of data on average you will see a 13.5% reduction in your storage costs. Read more on external site »
Xerox to sell cloud services to SMBs 
- Submitted by Jo Maitland, Thursday, February 2, 2012
Document management company, Xerox wants to get into the cloud game and has plans to sell Infrastructure as a Service and backup and recovery services to small businesses. Most likely it will not build these services itself, but resell and rebrand services from channel partners. Read more on external site »
AWS claims 762 billion objects stored in S3
- Submitted by Jo Maitland, Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Amazon Web Services says there are now 762 billion objects in its S3 storage service, up from 262 billion objects a year earlier. AWS does not disclose the size of the objects or the revenue generated from this business, nevertheless it is a curve that’s pointing steadily upwards. Read more on external site »
- Submitted by Jo Maitland, Monday, January 30, 2012
Amazon is stepping up its customer support with two new options, third party support and AWS Trusted Advisor, both aimed at convincing enterprise users to try the cloud service. Read more on external site »
EnterpriseDB launches PostgreSQL cloud service
- Submitted by Jo Maitland, Monday, January 30, 2012
EnterpriseDB announced that its Postgres Plus database is now available as a cloud service on Amazon Web Services called Postgres Plus Cloud Database. Read more on external site »
- Submitted by Jo Maitland, Monday, January 30, 2012
According to a report by Forrester Research “cloud cartels” will eventually takeover all computing. These cartels, the report says, will include Amazon, Cisco Systems, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and a few competitors. HP and Dell were noticeably absent. Read more on external site »
FireHost opens shop in London, Amsterdam
- Submitted by Jo Maitland, Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Everyone is moving into Europe this week! Cloud hosting provider Firehost has announced that its services are now available at data centers in London and Amsterdam. It is interesting timing, as the European Union unveiled new laws around data privacy this week that will make it harder for U.S. service providers to compete abroad if [...] Read more on external site »
- Submitted by Jo Maitland, Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider GoGrid has opened up shop in Amsterdam. The company has established its EMEA Headquarters, GoGrid AMS BV, and a new data center in Amsterdam to extend its cloud infrastructure services around the globe. Read more on external site »
IBM joins big data appliance ring
- Submitted by Jo Maitland, Tuesday, January 24, 2012
IBM has taken the wraps off a new analytics appliance that analyzes up to petabytes of big data, including consumer sales data and online shopping trends, which it claims will help retailers gain insight on buying patterns. It’s the technology IBM picked up through its acquisition of Netezza. Oracle recently launched a big data appliance [...] Read more on external site »
