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Amazon Profits From Early Cloud Start
[...] Amazon Web Services has leveraged its head start in the cloud space to address a nagging barrier to greater cloud adoption in the enterprise - the ability to bridge internal corporate IT infrastructure with the cloud in a secure, reliable and cost-efficient way. [...] Amazon Web Services has used its head start in the cloud space to address a nagging barrier to greater cloud adoption in the enterprise &mdash. the ability to bridge internal corporate IT infrastructure with the cloud in a secure, reliable and cost-efficient way. [...] At an event in New York in the fall of 2008, Mike Culver, a Web services evangelist for Amazon, said a very similar thing. We were really surprised that we were able to take off as fast as we did and maintain our lead. . [...]
Google Open Sources Google Wave Code
[...] The Pushbutton Web is basically a technological direction Dash characterises as any site or application that can deliver real-time messages to a web-scale audience, using free and open technologies at low cost and without relying on any single company like Twitter or Facebook. . [...] Google Wave specialises in delivering real-time instant messages using open-source technologies, so it falls into Dash's Pushbutton Web. Indeed, Daniel D. Shaw responded to Dash's blog post with the connection. Actually, I think the Google Wave protocol will go a long way toward enabling these types of interactions. . [...] XMPP is also considered by Anil Dash, vice president for blogging software company Six Apart, to be one of the precursor technologies to what he calls the Pushbutton Web. [...]
Panda Managed Office Protection Review
[...] This saves on the upfront cost of buying and installing a central management server and the ongoing cost of maintaining that server. Administrators can log into the Web-based management console from anywhere to deploy software agents, trigger anti-malware scans and push policy to clients. [...] Installation and configuration were as easy as they should be with an endpoint security solution in the SAAS model. I browsed to the secure Website management portal and created protection profiles for groups and users. MOP can be deployed either by sending users a link to the install package or by downloading the distribution tool, building your own packages and deploying them however you want. [...] Panda MOP reduces end point security costs, protecting servers and workstations from malware, and is truly cloud-based, allowing all systems to be managed from a central location anywhere. [...]
Citrix Launches ‘GoToManage’ Management Tool
[...] Citrix GoToManage is an integrated web-based platform for controlling unattended IT infrastructure, aimed at cost-conscious businesses. [...] Brett Caine, general manager of Citrix Online, said the acquisition enables the company to significantly expand leadership in SaaS by meeting the growing demands of customers and the market for a simpler approach to IT management. As a trusted partner to SMBs, we are well positioned to capitalise on the huge market potential in IT management with our signature and proven 'simpler is better' approach to web-based services, he said. [...] Citrix Systems' online division announced it was entering the IT Management sector with the launch of GoToManage, an integrated web-based platform for monitoring, controlling and supporting attended or unattended IT infrastructure. GoToManage is aimed at small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) and managed service providers (MSPs) who need an affordable solution and avoid complex premise-based software. [...]
Fasthosts Debuts Virtual Server Range
[...] Web hosting provider, Fasthosts has today introduced a new range of virtual servers that hopes to capitalise on a growing appetite among UK firms for more flexible, cost-effective and energy-efficient compute power. [...] Holford added that Hyper-V was well suited to Fasthosts' network and connectivity. As a long-standing expert for Microsoft web hosting, we have taken our time to invest in and develop a range of virtual servers that deliver the performance and strength traditionally only seen with dedicated server hardware, he added. [...] It also minimises power costs along with cooling, so enables overall costs to be controlled giving Fasthosts more profit while still charging customers a lot less that a dedicated server would be. [...]
Samsung, Nokia, Apple Handsets Do Well Despite Recession
[...] The folks at ABI Research are having fun with prognostications this week. Analyst Kevin Burden said he expects a market explosion for netbooks, those low-cost Web surfing notebook PCs, with worldwide shipments rising to an estimated 139 million in 2013. [...] ABI expects 2009 to be a good year for smartphones, which users are increasingly using for Web services and search. Samsung, Nokia, Apple and RIM grew despite the tepid market, ABI says. [...] Saunders also said he believes handset vendors will be trying to convince everyone they should own smartphones, which, thanks to the iPhone and other devices, have become a breeding ground for new Web services. Welcome to the Year of the Smartphone, he concluded. [...]
SMBs Flock To Facebook And Twitter For Marketing
[...] Clearly, there is room for low-cost social media marketing measurement tools. One thing is certain. If Facebook and Twitter continue to build out their social functionality, they will make their web services more attractive to business users. [...] For these guys, costs was a big factor, Sterling said. They either need to hire a dedicated person or need more resources and don't have it. . [...] Sterling also found that three-quarters of the businesses he spoke with go to local sites such as Yelp, Yahoo Local and CitySearch to see online reviews about their businesses. Most of these folks went to review websites and conducted vanity searches on their business names. [...]
SSL Crack Shows You Must Advance Your Security
[...] By creating their rogue certificate, the researchers were able to create certificates that would be verified by Web browsers as having been issued by the legitimate certificate authority, which, in this case, was RapidSSL, a low-cost CA owned by VeriSign. [...] Popular Web browsers and many other applications are distributed with the root certificates of trusted certificate authorities so that the browsers can verify that Web site certificates they encounter were, in fact, issued by one of the trusted authorities. [...]
Dell Launches Low Power Via Server
[...] After building up hype earlier this month, Dell officially launched its XS11-VX8 server system May 19. The new Dell server, which is designed for dense, Web 2.0 data centre environments, uses Via Nano processors, which are more commonly seen in netbooks and low-cost laptops. [...] Dell is hoping to sell the XS11-VX8 server to companies that need thousands of x86-based servers in their data centers instead of a typical enterprise deployment of 10 or 20 systems. These type of hyper-scale companies include Web 2.0 and Web hosting businesses or enterprises interested in building out cloud computing environments in order to host or deliver applications through the Web. [...] The Dell XS11-VX8 server costs about $400 and Dell expects to begin shipping these systems by June. [...]
Opalis Allows Amazon EC2 Cloud Management
[...] The Opalis Cloud LCM offers dynamic cloud services, which enable IT administrators to consume cloud resources based on their own metrics, such as time or cost. In addition, a Web-based self-service portal enables users to provision Amazon EC2 resources through time-based management to control use and cost. [...] There also is an integrated approval process to help with auditing and control of the use of cloud resources, e-mail alerts that let IT administrators know when the use of the cloud computing resources is about to expire, metering of services to tie use with cost, and integrated reporting capabilities to keep track of resource use and for chargeback. [...] Opalis is working with Amazon Web Services on the solution. [...]
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