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According to Jerry Huang of Gladinet, whose Cloud Desktop exposes a variety of cloud storage services as mapped drives in Windows Explorer, Google storage is “about 10 times cheaper” than Windows Azure. Since Amazon S3 has similar prices to Azure, I imagine Google undercuts that by some margin as well. Gladinet compares Google and Azure using …continue reading Google storage 10 times cheaper than Azure – but not as cheap as Skydrive In a posting on its forum, Amazon has declared defeat in its disagreement with Macmillan over ebook terms – one most likely influenced by Apple which is offering better terms to publishers for its forthcoming iPad: Macmillan, one of the "big six" publishers, has clearly communicated to us that, regardless of our viewpoint, they are committed …continue reading Amazon gives in to Macmillan thanks to power of Apple Amazon has apparently withdrawn all Macmillan titles from sale (print and electronic) because of an argument with the publisher over the terms of sale. Macmillan CEO John Sargent says: This past Thursday I met with Amazon in Seattle. I gave them our proposal for new terms of sale for ebooks under the agency model which will …continue reading Apple’s proxy war with Amazon over ebook pricing and market Google has announced a new feature – the ability to upload any type of file to its online storage. Over the next couple of weeks, we are rolling out the ability for Google Apps users to easily upload and securely share any type of file internally and externally using Google Docs. You get 1 GB of storage per user, and you can upload files up to 250 MB in size…Combined with shared folders in Google Docs, the upload feature is a great way to collaborate on files with coworkers and external parties. Additional storage is …continue reading Store any type of file in Google Apps – in effect, GDrive Amazon has announced the Amazon Relational Database Service: Amazon RDS gives you access to the full capabilities of a familiar MySQL database. This means the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing MySQL databases work seamlessly with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing …continue reading MySQL comes to Amazon’s cloud. Anyone for Quadruple Extra Large? Just spotted this from today’s Adobe’s LiveCycle ES2 announcement: Adobe is also announcing the ability for enterprise customers to deploy LiveCycle ES2 as fully managed production instances in the cloud, with 24×7 monitoring and support from Adobe, including product upgrades. LiveCycle ES2 preconfigured instances will be hosted in the Amazon Web Services cloud computing environment. This is …continue reading Adobe uses Amazon platform for cloud LiveCycle ES2 The easiest way to make money on the web is by signing up as an affiliate for Amazon.com and/or Google (Disclaimer: I have both). Although most affiliates achieve only small and occasional income, it is possible to earn significant amounts. With Amazon, you can create your own specialist online store and make it a viable …continue reading No more Amazon income if you are in North Carolina. Who next? Yesterday I attended a presentation from NTT Communications, a managed hosting provider, on the plans of 200 CFOs and CIOs from larger UK organizations (500+ employees) with respect to cloud computing. Since NTT would presumably like more companies to stick more stuff on its hosted servers, I presume it was hoping for a strong endorsement …continue reading Cloud Computing survey: more fog than cloud |
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