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This Week in Cloud Computing #30 With David Jilk of Standing Cloud
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On this episode we chat with David Jilk, CEO of Standing Cloud (@standing_cloud)
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News Headlines
1) Box brings scanning to the cloud
Box.net has partnered with Lexmark so you can scan paper documents directly to a Box account, putting document management in the cloud.
Article: http://bit.ly/cPBSQL
Q: Will we see content management move completely to the cloud? What are the obstacles?
2) Microsoft is questioning the cloud computing growth prospects of Salesforce.com
Microsoft is now spending $9.5b / year to provide the infrastructure that will be required for the cloud computing era. By comparison, it says Salesforce.com’s $120 million R&D investment won’t be able to keep pace with the cash rich Amazons, Googles and Microsofts of the world.
Article: http://bit.ly/bPlH7H
Q: Does Salesforce need to move beyond (SaaS) and CRM boxes and focus instead on enterprise apps to drive growth? Do they need to invest in infrastructure for a complete cloud strategy?
3) DAVE POST: the five facts every cloud computing pro should know
1. Cloud computing is not virtualization.
2. Cloud computing requires APIs.
3. Moving to a cloud is not a fix for bad practices.
4. Security is what you make of it, cloud or no cloud.
5. There are no “quick cloud” solutions.
Article: http://bit.ly/bp1S3P
Q: Are we getting to a common understanding of what a cloud really is?
Round was led by Mayfield Fund, which also recently acquired 3Par. This latest round brings StorSimple’s total funding raising to $21m. The appeal is simple: pay as you go storage vs expensive, on-premise physical storage. StorSimple also saves on bandwidth costs with “deduplication,” which cuts down on bandwidth usage by uploading only changes to a file, like a single word updated in a text document.
Article: http://bit.ly/cX4jbX
Q: What opportunities exist with storage in the cloud?
A Chinese group has opened up a site, called IM DDODS, that allows customers to sign in and order distributed denial-of-service attacks. The website claims that only nonlegitimate Web servers — such as gambling sites — can be chosen as the target of an attack.
Article: http://bit.ly/cBgg7p
Q) Does cloud computing provide the underworld with new and better ways to steal?
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A service for easily installing & using open source applications in the cloud
- What users really want from the cloud is an app – but most providers simply give you a server
- How service disruption can become a thing of the past
- How (and why) cloud can move within the enterprise from IT to the people who just need to use an app (the end users)
- How Standing Cloud is being put to work by site owners and independent software vendors
- Why cloud API standards are blue sky and will never happen (here’s Dave’s blog post on it: http://blog.standingcloud.com/2010/08/11/when-to-use-open-source-in-a-cloudy-world/)
