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el 22-Nov-2008 |  A new feature for Amazon's (AMZN) EC2? The cloud computing community is abuzz today over Public Data Sets coming soon to Amazon's cloud.
Here's how it works: The human genome is about 3 GB in size, not counting annotations. Rather than have every scientist on the EC2 working with it upload (and pay for) their own copy, Amazon hosts the genome itself, which any EC2 customer can access. Other data sets Amazon will be making public: The U.S. Census, economic databases from the U.S. Labor department, and 80 GB of conformers from the ChemInformatics toolkit, whatever that is (we got a C- in chemistry).
Makes a lot of sense to us. For very little cost, Amazon could be generating a lot of goodwill among scientists and academics, important customers in the utlity computing market. And if Amazon can make its own public data sets a common reference point for researchers, network effects will make academics prefer the EC2 to other clouds.
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| Amazon's Cloud Comes To Europe (AMZN) | | Amazon's (AMZN) cloud computing service keeps getting bigger. This morning the company announced its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) now has data centers based in Ireland, which should allow better performance for European [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Dec-2008 by Silicon in AMZN
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| EMC's "very massive" storage cloud | | As Amazon struggles today with the first big outage to afflict its popular S3 data-storage service, it looks like it will also soon be facing a big new competitor. The storage giant EMC looks like it's gearing up for a major move into "the cloud." Like other traditional IT component suppliers, EMC sees cloud computing as both threat and opportunity. On the one hand, it could put a large dent into [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-Feb-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| MySpace elbows into the Cloud | | Social netvomit now available wirelessly
MySpace has teamed up with The Cloud to offer UK social networkers free access to Wi-fi hotspots, so they can keep up with what their pretend friends are up to while out socialising.
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| Here comes the "Windows Cloud" | | Amazon and Microsoft are about to be partners - and competitors. Last night, Amazon's Werner Vogels announced that later this fall developers and companies will be able to run Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which up to now has been limited to Linux or other Unix-based systems. Given the broad popularity of the Microsoft operating system, the move [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-Oct-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| The Cloud 20 | | The paperback edition of The Big Switch is making its way into bookstores and, for early adopters, is available now from Amazon.com and BN.com. The paperback includes a new section, "The Cloud 20," in which I profile 20 leading cloud computing businesses. The companies, as I write in the introduction to the section, "together illustrate the impressive breadth of the cloud computing industry, even [..] Read complete article | | Published 05-Jan-2009 by Rough Ty in General
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| Google unlocks its data centers | | The clouds open and . . . the face of Google appears. As long anticipated, Google is now allowing outside developers to write applications that will run on its vast network of data centers. The company's App Engine, now in a closed beta, provides a new cloud-based development platform that will compete with, and perhaps complement, the platforms run by Amazon Web Services, Salesforce.com, and othe [..] Read complete article | | Published 08-Apr-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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