Why Facebook’s S-1 barely scratches the surface of its infrastructure dependency 
Jo Maitland- Friday, February 3, 2012
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Facebook's S-1 filing this week has many talking about concerns related to the company's infrastructure — and rightly so. When a company goes public, there is a whole new set of pressures to shoulder, and keeping Wall Street at an arm's length in order to focus on infrastructure might prove to be Facebook's toughest task yet. Subscribe now or sign in to view this Weekly Update »
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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.
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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.
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Xerox to sell cloud services to SMBs
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.
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AWS claims 762 billion objects stored in S3
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.
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Cloudera hooks up to Tableau
Hadoop infrastructure provider, Cloudera has partnered with Tableau, makers of software that allows users to analyze, visualize and share information. The Cloudera Connector for Tableau allows for ad-hoc visualization so you can see patterns and outliers in your data stores in Hadoop without needing any special configuration, according to Tableau. This kind of integration will be important to the adoption of Hadoop in the enterprise as most companies do not have skilled data scientists on tap to make sense of big data. I expect Cloudera to partner with some of the bigger players in the Business Intelligence market, Microsoft, IBM, etc, for the same reason.
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VMware can provide IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings, and continues to evolve its capabilities in all of these areas. Taking on a Cloud Services agenda as Azure, the question remains what DBaaS like SQL Azure will fuel their IaaS/PaaS/SaaS offering? MySQL? Postgress? NoSQL?
—Razi Sharir on VMware’s Cloudy Ambitions: Can It Repeat Hypervisor Success?
