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Industry Insights: YouTube, Google, and US Mobile Users

Posted on November 13, 2012
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YouTube Pulls the Plug YouTube announced they will be pulling the plug on some of their channels this year. Last January YouTube took their top video sharing cloud platform to a new level, one that was more “tv-like.” Of course the switch over isn’t expected to happen over night, but YouTube is already finding that advertisers and marketers, are [...]

Cloud Computing News Roundup – September 28th

Posted on September 28, 2012
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Concerned you missed a big story? We’ve got you covered. Every Friday we’ll be posting the top five trending articles about all things cloud. So sit back, relax and enjoy the top headlines of the week. Could the cloud be disrupting everyone’s job? Find out what Forbes has to say about the IDC study predicting [...]

Amazon vs iTunes: A Battle for Your Love

Posted on September 19, 2012

I came across this comic the other day by Manu Cornet. Besides my initial reaction of “I hate how I can’t share my instant amazon videos within iTunes”, I then thought – could this be bad for the cloud? In essence, if taken the wrong way, of course. The first thought is any ecommerce, when in the [...]

The Rumors are True: Google Announces IaaS Offering

Posted on June 29, 2012
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 Finally, the rumors can be put to rest. Google has officially announced the release of its new Compute-On-Demand service, matching up to Amazon’s Elastic Compute (EC2).  The tech giant launched their new Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform in hopes of attracting more developers to their cloud platform.  Google’s senior vice president of technical infrastructure said during the announcement, [...]

Will Google be Adding IaaS to their Rapporteur?

Posted on June 27, 2012
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The tech world seems to be at a stand still while waiting for Google to announce the launch  of an EC2 imitator,  at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, and put the rumors to rest.  This week, as I’m sure most of you are aware, it has been rumored that Google will be releasing [...]

Cloud Computing News – May 14th

Posted on May 18, 2012
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Concerned you missed a big story? We’ve got you covered. Every Sunday we’ll be posting the top five trending articles about The Cloud. So sit back, relax and enjoy the top headlines of the week.   1. Is Cloud Computing the new wonder drug for all SMB security and cost issues? Find out what Microsoft [...]

Meet The Top Cloud Computing Companies

Posted on May 17, 2012
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Every industry has its specific leaders, the trail-blazers who make it possible for smaller companies to join the race. It’s important to acknowledge the organizations who lead the way with innovative technology, after all smaller companies need someone to look up to (and models to improve upon). One of the common threads with most “top [...]