Webcloud World

Microsoft Emerging Business Team’s Manager proposes an interesting view, beyond the classical “everything on-demand” in its blog.
A must read!

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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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