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02 Mar, 2009

Whose cloud is it anyway ?

Posted by: admin In: Cloud computing

For those of you who couldn’t assist to the conference, you can watch the video highlights from the roundtables involving  Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff,  Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Ning CEO Gina Bianchini and FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit.If you are interested in watching more, you will find the full event on Techcrunch.

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“The Cloud [...]

Amazon, one of the initiator of the “on-demand” trend has recently showed it still wanted to innovate in this through several major announcements :

Mechanical Turk : the crowdsourcing marketplace is now more accesible to nonprogrammers by offering a Web-based editing tool. People are now able to create a task online get their work done.

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15 Jul, 2008

$15 Million invested in a PAAS provider

Posted by: admin In: News

Engine Yard, provider of a Ruby and Rails deployment platform, announced a Serie B financing round of $15 million, implicating New Enterprise Associates, Inc., Benchmark Capital and Amazon.
Here is the official announcement
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Amazon invests in Engine Yard’s cloud computing
Amazon, NEA Invest in Rails Hosting Startup Engine Yard

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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