Monthly Archives: June 2011

Amazon Web Services Follows Microsoft by Eliminating Inbound Data Charges

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

Amazon Web Services (AWS) promised to eliminate inbound data fees starting July 1 in a move that matched Microsoft’s recent announcement of the same with respect to its Microsoft Azure platform. Moreover, AWS slashed outbound data prices for up to … Continue reading →

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Quantifying Cloud Computing Market Share

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of analyses about the size and relative market share of vendors in the cloud computing space. According to a post in GigaOM, UBS Analysts estimate that “the total market for AWS-type services will be … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Releases Office 365 to Stake Claim to Cloud Productivity Software Space

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

Microsoft Corporation consolidated its position in the productivity software market on Tuesday with the market release of Office 365, the online version of its Microsoft Office suite of software applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. In releasing … Continue reading →

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Verizon’s Terremark Worldwide Pledges to Avoid Vendor Lock-In and Provide Enhanced Security

Posted on June 26, 2011 by

Just days after Go Daddy announced plans to enter the IaaS space, Verizon revealed its readiness to deploy IaaS and managed services as a result of the consummation of its technological integration with its recent acquisition Terremark. The newly formed … Continue reading →

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Go Daddy Offers IaaS Cloud Computing, With a Twist

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

Go Daddy’s recent announcement that it plans to enter the IaaS cloud computing market throws yet another twist into the contemporary evolution of the cloud computing space. Although competing directly with Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, the domain registration and … Continue reading →

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Open Data Center Alliance Pushes Cloud Inter-Operability with Eight Use Cases

Posted on June 16, 2011 by

Whereas healthcare IT can boast inter-operability standards in the form of HL7 compliant standards that regulate the transmission of structured, electronic health data, the cloud computing space has yet to finalize analogous protocols for the exchange of data. As a … Continue reading →

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Quotes from Apple CEO Steve Jobs on iCloud and device synchronization at 2011 WWDC

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

The following text is a partial transcription of Steve Jobs’s June 6 keynote address at the 2011 Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), with a specific focus on Jobs’s remarks on the iCloud. Jobs introduced the vision for Apple’s iCloud product … Continue reading →

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Apple’s iCloud takes cloud computing beyond IaaS, PaaS and SaaS trinity

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

Contemporary discussions about cloud computing typically revolve around the concepts of Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Amazon Web Services (AWS) constitutes the paradigmatic example of IaaS whereas Microsoft Azure … Continue reading →

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