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Why Bringing Cloud Computing to China Is Joyent’s Golden Opportunity This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

Much has been made about this week’s Amazon Web Services news, and for good reason. The introduction of Amazon RDS shed light on the growing prevalence of relational databases in the cloud, high-memory instances optimize EC2 for a new breed of workloads (including relational databases), and the 15 percent across-the-board price cut indicates that cloud-computing services are commoditizing, forcing providers to compete on features and price. But as important as these enhancements are, their effects on Amazon’s cloud business should pale in comparison to the effects that Joyent’s move into China will have on its business — and, potentially, the global cloud-computing market. Subscribe now or sign in to view this Weekly Update »

Curated Links

  1. EMC/Cisco’s V-Block Faces the Hard ‘Cell’ from HP

    Now that VCE and Acadia are more than just smoke, the question is who can compete with them. HP has the tools and, it seems, might actually take a leadership position if it moves quickly and correctly.

    Submitted by Derrick Harris

  2. Cisco, EMC, VMware, Form Virtual Computing Environment Coalition

    This is huge news, but it also is a lot to take in. There are stories everywhere, but they are not complete, for the most part. Keep an eye on GigaOM for a post on this news very shortly.

    Submitted by Derrick Harris

  3. Red Hat Rolls Out Virtualization Platform for Heterogeneous Servers and Clouds

    The virtualization market just got a lot more competitive, as Red Hat is providing both a hypervisor and management software for creating internal clouds. Red Hat announced other cloud products, including a Java app platform, in late summer.

    Submitted by Derrick Harris

  4. Cloud Providers Should Welcome White Hat Hacking

    This is true, as these types of studies can help eliminate potentially costly attacks later on (although cloud providers might appreciate a less-public exposition of these findings). However, Amazon can take solace in this related study, which found that a 12-character password would prove incredibly costly to overtake.

    Submitted by Derrick Harris

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Data Highlights

From De-Duplicating the Storage Industry

6%

Estimated overlap of customers between NetApp and storage efficiency leader Data Domain

From Infrastructure Wrap-up: Q1 2009

10%

The percentage of cloud services that can be accounted for by SaaS in 2008.

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Nov 3, 2009 — There is so much news today, I cannot justify concentrating on one piece. The biggest news, of course, is the coalition/joint venture by Cisco, EMC and VMware, and you can expect to read a lot more about this. Yahoo also open-sourced its Traffic Server software, which could have a big impact on overall web-site performance. Red Hat expanded its virtualization and cloud presence by making available its virtualization management software, which it is targeting at internal cloud deployments. Finally, Amazon received some positive security news (if you can call it that): A study found that cracking a 12-character AWS account via EC2 would cost around $1.5 million.

— Derrick Harris
— Infrastructure Curator

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