Webcloud World

Following Animoto’s success story, Entrip, a startup evolving in the online-travel field, relates in the presentation below, how it has been able to scale its infrastructure thanks to Amazon Web Services.

Startups In The Cloud
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An interesting article from RWW about the future of desktop application.
I a few words, the future of desktop = Hosted services + social layers + cloud storage… and, of course browser-based.
Read the full article from ReadWriteWeb

For those of you who would like to embrace cloud computing but are a bit lost, the two following links should help you to choose the best providers, according to your needs :
A guided tour of Amazon, Google, AppNexus, and GoGrid
Comparing the Cloud: Amazon EC2, Mosso, and GoGrid

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Animoto, a succesfull startup enabling people to create dynamic slideshows and spread them trough various social-networks, has managed to deal with its growing server instances thanks to Amazon Webservices : S3 and EC2. Thanks to Amazon, they managed to scale from the equivalent of 50 servers to 2,500 in only three days!
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