Google Drive isn’t the holy grail of personal cloud services. But, Google Drive’s introduction has forced all the other players to up their game. Microsoft added paid storage options to SkyDrive. Dropbox doubled the free storage you got for bringing friends and families on board. And, Amazon introduced a desktop client for its Amazon Cloud [...]
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Amazon tries to catch up in personal cloud storage and falls further behind
May 2nd, 2012 · Comments Off
Tags: Amazon · Business · Cloud Computing · Infrastructure · Internet · Network · Storage
Amazon EC2 cloud is made up of almost half-a-million Linux servers
March 16th, 2012 · Comments Off
We know that Linux on servers is big and getting bigger. We also knew that Linux, thanks to open-source cloud programs like Eucalyptus and OpenStack, was growing fast on clouds. What he hadn’t know that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), had close to half-a-million servers already running on a Red Hat Linux variant. Huang Liu, [...]
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Should Amazon, Google & Wikipedia “nuke” the Web to stop SOPA?
January 4th, 2012 · Comments Off
With the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Congress, at the request of big media, is still considering trying to censor the global Internet in the name of preventing media piracy The major Internet companies, who don’t like the idea of being forced to monitor customers’ traffic and block Web sites suspected or accused of copyright [...]
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Which Tablet has the Best Display?
December 21st, 2011 · Comments Off
We all have our own ideas on what looks good on a tablet display and what doesn’t. Unlike most of us though Dr, Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate, the world’s leading display and display tuning company, has more than just an opinion. He has a long, well-respected history of scientifically analyzing what separates great displays [...]
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Rumble in the cloud: 5 cloud storage services compared
December 1st, 2011 · Comments Off
December 01, 2011, 7:00 AM — It used to be that when I said “cloud services,” people’s eyes would glaze over and in minutes they’d be gently snoring. That was then. This is now. While CIOs and CTOs still debate about what role the cloud will have in business, personal cloud services have been slowly [...]
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