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Mario Tama/Getty ImagesWhen it comes to raking in the money on cloud computing Amazon still "dwarfs all competition," writes John Dinsdale, an analyst at market.

Google already runs much of the digital lives of consumers through email, internet searches and YouTube videos. Now it wants the corporations, too.

RapidScale Cloud Server and Cloud Backup are two products that have been able to increase the scalability and accessibility of server technology for enterprises. Through the utilization of Data Centers across the United States, RapidScale is able to provide a geographically diverse location to store your data. RapidScale will replicate the Data in a diverse location, it will be protected against any natural disasters.

Google has long promoted the idea of cloud computing as safe, secure and productive, but apparently only in its own cloud.

Cloud computing is a term used to describe a variety of computing models that involve a collection of computers housed in a secure facility accessed through a network connection, typically the Internet. However, cloud computing isn't new, in fact it has been around since the early 1950s.

We cover all aspects of designing, building and managing traditional on-premise IT and cloud-based platforms, we work with organizations looking to optimize their on premise infrastructures or build and adopt private, hybrid or public clouds.

Prolexic has the quickest response times to detect and mitigate attacks. It identifies and handles attacks before you even know your network is being attacked. It successfully fight tens of thousands of Distributed Denial of Service attacks each and every year. Not only is Prolexic the most experienced Denial of Service protection provider, they also bring unparalleled expertise and support to the table making your decision that much easier. With some of the most experienced engineers and support teams you get a greater peace of mind knowing your network is protected around the clock, every day of the week.

Education sector telco AARNet today announced that it would provide Box's cloud content and collaboration management platform to Australian universities and other AARNet customers, in a move which has already spurred trials at half a dozen educational institutions located around Australia.

Google, AWS and Microsoft each have both strengths and vulnerabilities, making it difficult to directly compare them on dimensions other than cost.

Level3's Content Delivery Network ensures fast and flawless delivery of your website to online customers with rich high-quality content. It offers a two-pronged solution to this. Firstly, Level3 Edge Distribution caching platform is able to accelerate content delivery as much as 70 percent, providing the maximum security of your content. Secondly, it uses website acceleration technologies to render your site instantly. This is crucial, as a quick page load keeps customers engaged.

Limelight Content Storage is a tool that is employed to speed the delivery of your rich content to the end user and hosts it in the Cloud. Customers today are drawn to media rich websites but these same customers also have very high expectations of websites and do not have the patience to wait for slow video buffering or error messages. With so much business competition out there you need to ensure that your delivery is not detracting clients. If you use Limelight Content Storage your data will have a shorter distance to travel to reach your potential customer.

Rajesh Awasthi, director - Telecom and Cloud Service Provide, NetApp India, says its cloud strategy is to provide enterprise customers with seamless data management and control.

by Sandra Bluben Technical coordinator The businesses in its start-up phase usually prefer to go with shared hosting as they have limited web traffic and small IT requirements. Virtual dedicated server is another cheaper web hosting option which comes with great features, usually preferred by Small businesses.

What is cloud computing? Cloud computing is the access to computers and their functionality via the Internet or a local area network. Users of a cloud request this access from a set of web services that manage a pool of computing resources (i.e., machines, network, storage, operating systems, application development environments, application programs). When granted, a fraction of the resources in the pool is dedicated to the requesting user until he or she releases them. It is called "cloud computing" because the user cannot actually see or specify the physical location and organization of the equipment hosting the resources they are ultimately allowed to use. That is, the resources are drawn from a "cloud" of resources when they are granted to a user and returned to the cloud when they are released. A "cloud" is a set of machines and web services that implement cloud computing.

In a QCon conference presentation on Availability and Consistency or how the CAP theorem ruins it all, Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, examines the tension between availability & consistency in large-scale distributed systems, and presents a model for reasoning about the trade-offs between different solutions.

Cloud services are being talked up as a fundamental shift in web architecture that promises to move us from interconnected silos to a collaborative network of services whose sum is greater than its parts. The problem is that the protocols powering current cloud services; SOAP and a few other assorted HTTP-based protocols are all one way information exchanges. Therefore cloud services aren't real-time, won't scale, and often can't clear the firewall. So, it's time we blow up those barriers and come to Jesus about the protocol that will fuel the SaaS models of tomorrow--that solution is XMPP (also called Jabber) .

Vertebra is Engine Yard's "platform for developing and managing secure cloud applications", and was announced in June 2008. Now, it has finally been released-under the LGPL3.