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2010-01-14

Storage in the cloud with Google Docs

Clipped from: Google Docs Expands To Allow More Information To Live On The Cloud - PSFK

Google Docs Expands To Allow More Information To Live On The Cloud

Clipped from: Official Google Docs Blog: Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs

Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs

Instead of emailing files to yourself, which is particularly difficult with large files, you can upload to Google Docs any file up to 250 MB. You'll have 1 GB of free storage for files you don't convert into one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations), and if you need more space, you can buy additional storage for $0.25 per GB per year. This makes it easy to backup more of your key files online, from large graphics and raw photos to unedited home videos taken on your smartphone. You might even be able to replace the USB drive you reserved for those files that are too big to send over email.

Clipped from: Google GDrive Launches. Just Don’t Call It That.

Google GDrive Launches. Just Don’t Call It That.

“This is not GDrive” said Google Docs product manager Vijay Bangaru yesterday while showing me something that sure does look exactly like the fabled GDrive.
“How is it different,” I asked.
“That’s hard to say, because GDrive doesn’t exist.”

[...]

Three Third Party Apps Available Now
Three partners have been working with Google to build value add features on top of the new product. The most interesting, Memeo Connect (from Memeo), lets users sync files between the desktop and Google Docs.
Syncplicity is offering businesses an automated backup and file management application. And Manymoon, an online project management application, is also now integrated with Google Docs file storage.

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2009-12-08

Intel's Single-chip Cloud Computer

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Intel working on a 48-core computer

Intel recently announced a single-chip computer that will hold 48 cores. The chip is called a single-chip cloud computer (SCC) because it resembles cloud datacenters.

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Tera-scale Computing Research Program

The Intel® Tera-scale Computing Research Program is a worldwide effort to advance computing technology for the next decade. future applications more compelling and immersive.

"Tera" means 1 trillion, or 1,000,000,000,000. Our vision is to create platforms capable performing of trillions of calculations per second (teraflops) on trillions of bytes of data (terabytes).

Tera-scale Computing architectural vision animation
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Single-chip Cloud Computer

Inside the Single-chip Cloud Computer

The name “Single-chip Cloud Computer” reflects the fact that the architecture resembles a scalable cluster of computers such as you would find in a cloud, integrated into silicon.
The research chip features:

24 “tiles” with two IA cores per tile
A 24-router mesh network with 256 GB/s bisection bandwidth
4 integrated DDR3 memory controllers
Hardware support for message-passing

In a sense, the SCC is a microcosm of cloud datacenter. Each core can run a separate OS and software stack and act like an individual compute node that communicates with other compute nodes over a packet-based network.

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Google's Open-Source Chrome OS

Clipped from: Google joins battle with Microsoft with Chrome operating system - Times Online

Google joins battle with Microsoft with Chrome operating system

Google Chrome OS is a development of its “Chrome” web browser. The search giant initially aims to put the new system on small low-cost computers known as “netbooks”, which have been selling better than more powerful PCs. Google said that it believed the software will eventually be used on PCs as well.

Clipped from: Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

The Official Google Blog - Insights from Googlers into our products, technology and the Google culture

[...] today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
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Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

Clipped from: Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome.

Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome.

[...] This is Google dropping the mother of bombs on its chief rival, Microsoft. It even says as much in the first paragraph of its post, “However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web.” Yeah, who do you think they mean by that?
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What Google is doing is not recreating a new kind of OS, they’re creating the best way to not need one at all.

So why release this new OS instead of using Android? After all, it has already been successfully ported to netbooks. Google admits that there is some overlap there. But a key difference they don’t mention is the ability to run on the x86 architecture.

Clipped from: Gizmodo - Google Chrome OS for PCs: Look Out Windows and OS X - Google Chrome OS

Google Chrome OS for PCs: Look Out Windows and OS X

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Still, Windows and OSX will always have a spacious home in the computer world, undoubtedly. Some apps will always require native architecture, and the businessmen, code-monkeys, graphic designers, video editors and other connoisseurs of nuanced computing would be foolhardy to try and work strictly in the cloud.
But the final hurdle for Google to overcome is easy, accessible online storage. Will they be able to go after Amazon's S3 cloud servers? And perhaps more importantly, will they be able to offer the service for free? If they can let us really extend our hard drives into the cloud, look out. Chrome OS will be a force to be reckoned with.

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2009-03-31

Storage in the Cloud

Clipped from: ParaScale software clusters servers into enterprise cloud storage | Crave - CNET

ParaScale, a start-up that develops cloud-storage solutions, announced Monday the availability of its ParaScale Cloud Storage (PCS) software. The software, once installed on any standard Linux platform, enables the server to be linked with others to act as one massive file repository that offers high parallel throughput.

(While this solution is available only for the enterprise market, regular users can also participate in similar clustering cloud storage using their home computers with Wuala, another online storage service that LaCie acquired awhile ago.)

Clipped from: ParaScale Cloud Storage Software – Build your own cloud storage

ParaScale Software, Powering Cloud Storage

ParaScale cloud storage software clusters tens to hundreds of servers together to act as one giant file repository with massive capacity and parallel throughput for a variety of applications. Deployments can start at several terabytes and it is easy to scale the cloud capacity and performance by adding commodity hardware. Having shared access via a standard network and protocols, a single administrator can easily manage hundreds of servers, with the system automatically balancing out hot-spots and capacity utilization across the various nodes. ParaScale software enables the enterprise or service provider to build enormous storage pools on commodity hardware at an affordable cost.

Clipped from: ParaScale Cloud Storage Software - Digital Content Storage Management

ParaScale Products Overview

PCS changes the storage landscape by offering several unique benefits:

Slashes storage costs by leveraging commodity hardware
Increases read/write throughput by allowing parallel data transfer
Accelerates performance and load-balances capacity across all nodes, by using automatic data migration and replication
Simplifies deployment by allowing incremental expansion, one disk at a time.

Clipped from: Wuala - The social online storage

Wuala, the social online storage

Voilà, here comes Wuala! Securely store and back up files online, access them from anywhere, and share your photos, videos, and music with friends and family.

Clipped from: Wuala - Why Wuala?

Why Wuala?

This need for online storage hasn't gone unnoticed: search for 'online storage' and you will find dozens of services. So, the obvious question, why Wuala? Wuala is unique in many ways and we believe it's the best application for a wide range of tasks. In addition to an array of convenient and distinguishable features, there are three core principles which make Wuala really stand out:

1. Security and privacy
Wuala is secure and protects your privacy: In contrast to many other services, all data you store in Wuala is encrypted on YOUR computer before it is stored online.

Convenience

2. Bridging web and desktop
Wuala is neither a website, nor a classical desktop application - it bridges web and desktop, combining the best of both worlds.

Technology

3. Economic technology
Wuala is based on a novel technology that reduces our costs so that we can provide you with a better service for free.

2009-01-27

GoEverywhere A Cloud-Based Workspace

Clipped from: Symantec Launches GoEverywhere – Cloud-Based Workspace | CloudAve

Symantec Launches GoEverywhere – Cloud-Based Workspace

Symantec corp is launching their GoEverywhere beta product, an offering that they’re describing as;

a secure SaaS-based workspace that allows users to access their preferred third party web-based email, IM, office and other online applications from one central online location

Clipped from: Your Cloud Workspace - Symantec GoEverywhere | AzureJournal - Windows Azure Blog

New things you will be able to do with goEverywhere:

Connect to and work from the internet on the same desktop from any computer
Log into any location on the internet with one user name and password
Access to many free applications and services on the internet
Sharing of data, documents and photos
Keep your data in one, secure and shareable location

Things you won’t have to do if you use goEverywhere as your desktop:

Choose between a PC and Mac, your can use either or both
Buy common software titles and utilities
Install & update software applications
Backup your files (if you use the storage service)
Upgrade your OS
Migrate to Vista

Clipped from: Advantages - Your Personal Online Workspace-- Symantec GoEverywhere

Advantages

Personal Online Workspace

Advanced workspace navigation

Zero Management

No need to backup,install,update or reboot.

Online Application Collections

Easy access to free software titles & rich media content

Single Secure Password

One password for all your online applications & storage

Clipped from: YouTube - Personal Cloud Computing

Personal Cloud Computing

Clipped from: YouTube - Introduction to the goEverywhere workspace

Introduction to the goEverywhere workspace

Clipped from: YouTube - Introduction to Open Places

Introduction to Open Places

Clipped from: YouTube - Setting up & using Safe Places

Setting up & using Safe Places

2008-12-27

About Cloud Computing

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rPath delivers "Cloud Computing in Plain English," an irreverent and instructive look at cloud that will make sense to techie and non-techie alike.

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Cloud Computing in Plain English

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Cloud computing

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cloud computing refers to the delivery of computational resources from a location other than your current one. In its most used context it is Internet-based ("cloud") development and use of computer technology ("computing"). The cloud is a metaphor for the Internet, based on how it is depicted in computer network diagrams, and is an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it conceals.^[1]

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The cloud computing landscape

In recent months, there's been an explosion of investment into cloud computing and related infrastructure. This massive investment indicates that there is demand for virtualization of resources inside the cloud.

2008-10-20

The ThinLinX $100 Thin Client Computer

Using “cloud computing” technology, and processing and data storage handled by remote servers in a separate location two Australians have developed computers, which cost $US100 and are tiny, even compared to laptops.

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Aussie couple take on computing giants

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Time to Ditch Your PC for a Hot-E?

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Two Australians are taking on the computer giants by developing a range of PCs that fit into a user’s palm.

John Nicholls and his wife Jeanne from the Sunshine Coast have developed “Hot-E” computers, which cost $US100 and are tiny, even compared to laptops.

Using “cloud computing” technology, the PCs use processing and data storage handled by remote servers in a separate location. The couple’s company, ThinLinX, has spent five years developing the device.

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Thin Clients

What is Thin client Computing?

Thin Clients are devices that receive software and data from network servers. The central storage and automated distribution of data and applications dramatically reduces costs and eases manageability. It also allows users to access the same set of data and applications from anywhere through multiple devices.

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Hewlett-Packard’s version of a so-called thin client and monitor, top, and the Hot-E device from ThinLinX, above.

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2010-01-14

Google Docs Expands To Allow More Information To Live On The Cloud

Three Third Party Apps Available Now

2009-12-08

Intel working on a 48-core computer

2009-07-08

Google joins battle with Microsoft with Chrome operating system

2009-03-31

ParaScale Products Overview

Wuala, the social online storage

2009-01-27

Personal Online Workspace

Advanced workspace navigation

Zero Management

No need to backup,install,update or reboot.

Online Application Collections

Easy access to free software titles & rich media content

Single Secure Password

One password for all your online applications & storage

Personal Cloud Computing

Introduction to the goEverywhere workspace

Introduction to Open Places

Setting up & using Safe Places

2008-12-27

Cloud Computing in Plain English

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2008-10-20

Time to Ditch Your PC for a Hot-E?

Thin Clients

What is Thin client Computing?