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Even as global markets struggle beneath the weight of unemployment, government paralysis, debt crises and Occupy Wall Street, one segment of the economy enjoys explosive growth with the promise of leading the recovery, one job at a time: cloud computing. Cloud computing is no longer at the leading edge of the software world, but rather from the perspective of a growth investor, entrepreneur, or technology buyer, cloud computing IS the modern software industry. This multi-billion dollar, high-growth segment of technology now encompasses hundreds of exciting companies, covering every major segment of the software ecosystem.
Bessemer Cloudscape: A map of the major cloud players — Cloud Computing News
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In a single minute there are over 695,000 status updates on Facebook. That's just one example of the mind boggling scale of online activity. The following infographics show a bunch of other incredible things that happen in 60 seconds (via Barry Ritholtz).
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Dentro del modelo de negocio que hay detrás de los sistemas cloud se suelen contemplar tres tipos de agente: el cliente de los servicios, el proveedor de los servicios y el desarrollador de los servicios (que puede coincidir o no con el proveedor). Consultoría y arbitraje: El broker se encarga de asesorar al consumidor acerca del mejor proveedor para sus necesidades concretas y realiza funciones de intermediación en la definición de las SLA. También se encarga de velar por su cumplimiento y de realizar labores de arbitraje ante cualquier problema que surja entre ambas partes. Agregación: El broker se encarga de ofrecer los servicios de diferentes proveedores cloud a un cliente como si se tratara de un único proveedor, añadiendo un nivel de abstracción que permite a los usuarios finales acceder a diferentes clouds de manera transparente.
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By Michael Eggebrecht As enterprise adoption of cloud computing gains momentum, CIOs will need to take a firmer stance with cloud providers, says Brian Ott, VP of the worldwide cloud program at Unisys. When a vendor dictates the format of its customers' data, CIOs lose control -- and get locked in.
Is Cloud Brokerage the Next Big Thing?
As enterprises struggle to sort out the array of cloud computing options and services, analysts see a growing opportunity for “cloud brokers” to serve as intermediaries between end users and cloud providers. These cloud middlemen will help companies choose the right platform, deploy apps across multiple clouds, and perhaps even provide cloud arbitrage services that allow end users to shift between platforms to capture the best pricing. “The future of cloud computing will be permeated with the notion of brokers negotiating relationships between providers of cloud services and the service customers,” said Frank Kenney, research director at Gartner.
Cloud Brokers: The Next Big Opportunity? « Data Center Knowledge
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Ask Box.net CEO Aaron Levie about his company’s cloud storage business, and you’ll hear a long, excited answer that probably won’t include the word “storage” at all. He’ll talk about sharing, collaboration and universal access — anything but the core storage infrastructure that makes Box’s service possible. He’s entirely right to do so, because backup has been done to death and there’s precious little value anyone can add there, and precious few dollars to squeeze out of it. “This space used to be the lamest category of technology three or four years ago,” Levie jokes, but that all changed with the emergence of Box and competitors such as Dropbox and SugarSync. No longer is online backup enough, companies that want to store files in the cloud have to bring additional value that makes users view them as something else altogether.
Why cloud storage is passé and collaboration is king — Cloud Computing News
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Amazon.com today said it would offer variable pricing for clients of its cloud computing service. The pricing, called Spot Instances , allows users to bid for access to unused compute time for as long as their bid exceeds the current spot price for an hour of computing. The introduction of dynamic pricing is something our guest columnist Joe Weinman predicted this weekend in his post discussing different ways to price services in the cloud.
Dynamic Pricing Comes to Amazon's Cloud — Tech News and Analysis
SpotCloud: It’s a Market, Not a Cloud — Cloud Computing News
Enomaly, a provider of software to create compute clouds, today announced SpotCloud , a brokerage service that allows Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers a way to sell their excess compute capacity and buyers a way to find smaller regional cloud providers for batch jobs. The service, which will help match supply and demand, as well as offer semi-elastic pricing (instead of elastic think of a belt analogy with several pre-cut holes offering a set number of sizes), is an initial step in creating a true auction-style delivery of compute capacity around the globe. However, it’s not there yet.
Enomaly has managed to cobble together between 10,000 and 25,000 servers available on any given day for its SpotCloud cloud computing market, according to CEO CTO and Founder Ruven Cohen. Two and half months ago, Enomaly, a provider of software to create compute clouds, announced SpotCloud , a brokerage service that allows Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers a way to sell their excess compute capacity and buyers a way to find smaller regional cloud providers for batch jobs. I chatted with Cohen this morning ahead of the company opening its beta to more potential sellers wanting to list their unused compute capacity on the SpotCloud market. Cohen said the marketplace can now offer access to servers in more than 40 countries and 100-plus cities, with the total capacity fluctuating between 10,000 and 25,000 servers with about four to six cores each. Cohen says the focus has been on establishing a solid base of sellers before opening the market to a wider audience next month.
SpotCloud Aims to Change Moore’s Law and Cloud Dynamics — Cloud Computing News
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