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AcerCloud Is Acer’s Answer To The Media Cloud

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AcerCloud Is Acer’s Answer To The Media Cloud | TechCrunch.

AcerCloud makes it easy to take photos on a smartphone while on the go, and then view them on a main PC at home or in the office, without the delay and complication of manually transferring files. It also allows users to purchase a movie from an all-in-one PC, and then watch it on a tablet or smartphone on a train or airplane. As long as the main PC is in sleep (standby/hibernation) mode, Acer Always Connect technology can wake it up through Wi-Fi® so media can be retrieved via a mobile device. AcerCloud, meanwhile, intelligently uses local and cloud storage together so all data is always available. Other features of AcerCloud include:

Cloud Hosting – Simple Hosting – PaaS – Gandi.net

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How it works

Each instance gets its own container that contains its database services, the program language interpreter, and its own web server.

Client requests arrive at a load balancer that distributes traffic to http proxies. These proxies benefit from a very efficient local cache: for each request, they verify whether or not there is a more recent version already in the cache. If it is present, the reply is automatically sent to the client. The cache’s “time to live” depends on the “max-age” http header.

via Cloud Hosting – Simple Hosting – PaaS – Gandi.net.

How to get rich in the cloud

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To get rich in the world of cloud computing, you first need to focus on a skill that’s in high demand, which is the kind that will pay very well. Second, work for an organization that provides some return on equity around the use of those skills. Typically, that means a hot technology startup or perhaps a small publicly traded technology company that’s now moving to the cloud. Wait a few years, sell your stock, move to beach, then repeat.

via How to get rich in the cloud | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld.

And that’s all it takes.  🙂

PATRIOT Act and privacy laws take a bite out of US cloud business

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Microsoft’s managing director in the UK, Gordon Frazer, made that admission in June at the Office 365 launch in London. After researching the PATRIOT act, Microsoft found that regardless of where data was stored, it could not ensure that data would not be turned over to the US government as the result of a National Security Letter or other government request, because the company is governed by US law.

via PATRIOT Act and privacy laws take a bite out of US cloud business.

What happens to data when your cloud provider evaporates?

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Currently, there’s no way for a cloud storage service provider to directly migrate customer data to another provider. If a service goes down, the hosting company must return the data to its customer, who then must find another provider or revert back to storing it locally, according to Arun Taneja, principal analyst at The Taneja Group.

via What happens to data when your cloud provider evaporates? – Computerworld.

This is only a problem if you don’t have a physical backup of your own data somewhere under your control. Expecting the cloud to be the end all be all for all IT needs is a mistake IMHO. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. The cloud does serve useful purposes.

Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster

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Gluster, which was founded in 2005, has its R&D and engineering facility in Bangalore, India, while its leadership team resides in California. The company’s flagship technology is GlusterFS, which allows an enterprise to cluster large numbers of commodity storage and compute resources into a centrally accessible and managed and storage pool. It names Pandora, Box.net and Samsung among its customers.

via Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster.

$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud

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The cluster, announced publicly this week, was created for an unnamed “Top 5 Pharma” customer, and ran for about seven hours at the end of July at a peak cost of $1,279 per hour, including the fees to Amazon and Cycle Computing. The details are impressive: 3,809 compute instances, each with eight cores and 7GB of RAM, for a total of 30,472 cores, 26.7TB of RAM and 2PB (petabytes) of disk space. Security was ensured with HTTPS, SSH and 256-bit AES encryption, and the cluster ran across data centers in three Amazon regions in the United States and Europe. The cluster was dubbed “Nekomata.”

via $1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud.