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Since the whole internet finds it incredibly important — Google now allows to deploy not only all of your data, but also all of your code on their proprietary, tightly controlled, fully integrated and infinitely scalable platform. As far as I understand it’s inferior to Amazon offering in every way, but one — it has [...]
In the end the Clowd track contained a lot of talk and little useful information. Amazon was the most interesting in the end.
Google guy talked about a unified Atom-based API to their services. It is a nice feature, but there was little real information to add to that description.
Yahoo showed off the pipes. It was [...]
Amazon web services is an offering to host your data and software at Amazon with massive virtualization and an interface over web services.
The first part of the talk is about S3 file hosting, which is done through a Firefox plugin (which I mistook for FireFTP first). You can upload files, assign ACLs, get the URL [...]