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A new report out from Forrester takes a chart-filled look at cloud computing, offering the analyst firm’s own definition of the cloud and attempting to dispel three myths they have noticed. Since we at GigaOM buy pretty heavily into two of these so-called myths — namely that a cloud is comprised of

Open-source giant Red Hat has upped the ante in the PC desktop virtualization market with its acquisition of Qumranet, Inc. in a $107-million deal announced this week. This acquisition clearly ups the ante in the race for Desktop Virtualization Infrastructure (VDI) solutions.

A new report out from Forrester takes a chart-filled look at cloud computing, offering the analyst firm’s own definition of the cloud and attempting to dispel three myths they have noticed. Since we at GigaOM buy pretty heavily into two of these so-called myths — namely that a cloud is comprised of

Last week Jeff Barr from Amazon Web services came up with a great new term to describe the need to handle sudden and extreme spikes in demand by enabling a hybrid cloud computing model which combines both private data center resources and remote cloud resources such as Amazon Ec2. He called this model "cloudbursting".

Amazon is running their second Start Up Challenge - I entered last year with my brilliant idea for a web service that would allow schools to quickly setup and scale emergency websites using Amazon S3 and EC2. I think it was a bit too niche-y, but I did get $25 in AWS credits, so that’s been a nice pile of money to play with and learn more about the system.

All this browser innovation (not just Chrome, but also Snowl & Ubiquity from Mozilla) are great, but how quickly can this really move.. after all we still have IE. If we don’t see the innovation from IE, can we bridge it somehow to allow it to gain mass market? IE plugins? Chrome uses WebKit.

Over at Pistachio HQ we’re a big fan of Amazon Web Services, and we’ve been using SimpleDB since day 1. However, for one reason or another we’ve needed to export our data and it turns out there’s no tools that do that… until now! It does exactly what we want it to.. get our data.

cloud computing, Web Services, amazon Philip Jacob wrote: Earlier this week, Amazon announced an important new feature in its cloud computing Web service offerings that should further cause those of us who work in technology to consider the way in which we build software systems.

Filed under: Business, News, Web services, web 2.0At the beginning of the summer, a new sales tax law went into effect in New York State, requiring online retailers who have some sort of presence in the state (like shipping centers or affiliate programs) to charge sales tax on any item shipped to New York residents.

A new version of the RightAws gem, 1.8.0, has been released and contains full support for Amazon's new Elastic Block Store (EBS). Via the RightAws::Ec2 module, users can create and delete EBS volumes, attach and detach them from instances, snapshot volumes, and list the available volumes and snapshots.