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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 »

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