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State of the Cloud – September 2009 :: Jack of all Clouds

To avoid confusion, the analysis will focus on cloud IaaS providers only. Currently tracked are Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud Servers (Slicehost), Joyent and GoGrid. I’m inviting the community to comment below regarding providers you feel should (or shouldn’t) be included. I’ll also be digging deeper into the definition of an IaaS cloud in upcoming posts, so stay tuned.

Snapshot for September 2009

Of the 500k sites analyzed, these are the results for the IaaS providers tracked:

via State of the Cloud – September 2009 :: Jack of all Clouds.

Tags: Amazon, Cloud Computing, EC2, GoGrid, IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service, Jack of all Clouds, Joyent, Rackspace Cloud Servers, Slicehost, State of the Cloud

Apple, Record Labels Diverge Over Next-Generation Full-Album Music Format | Epicenter | Wired.com

Apple and the major labels are squaring off for a major battle this fall with competing formats for delivering the latest innovation in digitial music. Full albums will come with a cornucopia of digital extras — at least that’s the way much of the tech press is setting the scene for a clash between Apple’s Project Cocktail and the major labels’ CMX format.

Both wrap songs, videos, images, lyrics, ringtones and other digital doodads into a comprehensive package that the industry hopes will bring back the long lost, profitable days of full album sales, which gave way to listeners buying single songs.

via Apple, Record Labels Diverge Over Next-Generation Full-Album Music Format | Epicenter | Wired.com.

Tags: album, Amazon, Apple, CMX, digitial music, Epicenter, Music Format, Project Cocktail, Record Label, Wired

send in the clouds

So a lot of your data is stored in the cloud saving you thousands of euro, but you need to audit your data locally or have it archived to the vaults for safe keeping but it will take weeks to download and the broadband is not the greatest speed and prone to disconnect at 2am. What is required is a courier service to send you back YOUR data when YOU want it.

Those clever folk at Amazon have a service to do just that.

AWS Import/Export accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport. AWS transfers your data directly onto and off of storage devices using Amazon’s high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. For significant data sets, AWS Import/Export is often faster than Internet transfer and more cost effective than upgrading your connectivity.

The beta currently supports importing and exporting data into and out of Amazon S3 buckets in the US. Support for EU buckets will be added in the coming months.

so if  you need to retrieve  over  1TB of data and you are on broadband it will take more that 82 days to download, it will ship quicker in Europe and the service isn’t even launched here yet!

Tags: Amazon, AWS Import/Export, broadband, buckets