Amazon Web Services personalizes CloudFront Web hosting service
By Peter Sayer | IDG News Service Amazon Web Services has extended its CloudFront Web hosting service to include dynamic content that can be personalized for each visitor. Websites already using CloudFront to host or cache static page elements can now also use it to serve up dynamic elements that are personalized for each user from servers within AWS’s EC2 calculate cloud, the company stated Monday. Pricing is the same as for static data, starting at $0.12/GB (or $0.02/GB after ...
Google shares Codie award for ideal cloud application/service
This evening’s annual Codie awards for business software features a three-way tie in cloud computing, with Google, Keynote Systems, and Scribe Software all winning in the Best Cloud Application/Service category. Given out by the Software & Information Industry Association, awards are intended to recognize “industry excellence,” SIIA said. Award winners are being announced at an SIAA event in San Francisco. Categories range from Best Asset Management Solution, won by Flexera Software with its FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises, to Best ...
Apple blocking Dropbox SDK over in-app buying
Developers using the latest Dropbox cloud storage SDK have been having applications rejected from Apple after Cupertino apparently decided that its terms and conditions have been breached. “We have found your app provides access to external mechanisms for buys or subscriptions to be used in the app, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines. Specifically, this app contains a link that takes the user to Dropbox via Safari,” numerous developers reported, with one posting his correspondence ...
VMware, Piston Cloud pledge to develop open source PaaS offering
In recent weeks, the rhetoric between the open source and proprietary cloud offerings in the IaaS market has intensified. But today’s move signals a more collegial tone in the PaaS market and what one analyst calls a recognition by providers that integration across multiple clouds and between IaaS and PaaS is key for cloud adoption by end-users. [ Also on InfoWorld: Editor in Chief Eric Knorr examines the OpenStack drama and the future of the cloud.
Skytap control freaks dev/test cloud
Skytap, the application development and testing cloud that is funded in part by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is tweaking its service once again, adding a new management interface and other features to make it easier for IT departments that use Skytap to give coders a better experience and rein in the budget. It is commonly believed that the lion’s share of Amazon’s customers for its EC2 calculate cloud and related storage, networking, and load balancing services are doing application development, ...
From IT to ET: The next wave of IT transformation
That’s hardly a new observation. It was most notably made in 2003, in a now-famous Harvard Business Review article by pundit Nicholas Carr called “IT Doesn’t Matter.” The gist of Carr’s argument: IT has become a commodity, like electricity. It’s no longer a sustainable differentiator (when was the last time you heard a company brag that it did a better job than a competitor because it had “better electricity”?). [ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's ...
BSA: The world is not yet cloud-friendly
The United States is the fourth friendliest country in the world for global cloud interoperability, according to a new study from the Business Software Alliance. But, the organization stated a “patchwork” of laws and regulations around the world is holding back cloud adoption internationally. In a ranking of the 24 countries that account for 80 percent of the world’s information and telecommunication technology, the BSA found that Japan, with its comprehensive privacy protections, robust IT infrastructure and strong intellectual property ...
VMware VCP5 certification upgrade deadline fast approaching
For many VMware administrators, having VMware certification is a badge of honor within the virtualization community. Being a VMware Certified Professional (VCP) states a lot about an individual’s dedication to the technology and level of expertise. And as the demand for IT professionals with data center virtualization skills increases, it is essential to be able to distinguish yourself in the job market. Certification requires completion of a VMware-authorized training course and hands-on experience with VMware technologies.
Oracle reels off one exabyte in tape storage
Object storage a rival? Not even close. At least, not yet Oracle has been boasting about its dominance in tape, saying it has now shipped more than an exabyte’s worth of media for StorageTek T10000C tape drives in the nine months after its release – a faster ramp than for any other StorageTek product. Oracle also shipped more enterprise tape drives than any other vendor in the first half of 2011, according to an IDC report, which also declared: Oracle ...
Amazon Web Services moves backups to cloud with new appliance
By Mikael Ricknäs | IDG News Service Amazon Web Services has launched a public beta test of AWS Storage Gateway, which grants enterprises to back up application data in Amazon’s cloud using a software appliance, the company stated on Tuesday. The Storage Gateway appliance is a virtual machine that runs on VMware’s virtualization software. It uses an iSCSI interface to integrate with applications. [ In the data center today, the action is in the private cloud.
