by Jason Wilk on September 24, 2009
- Dropbox, the file sharing service which makes it easy to sync your files across multiple computers and the web, has announced that it has reached two million registered users, just four months after reaching one million users (TC). What’s to blame? Dropbox unleashed a brand new redesign of its web interface, and new search as well as many other features recently. Keep an eye out for their iPhone app, which is coming soon.
- Dropbox was one of the finalists for TechCrunch50 one year ago. It was originally a Y Combinator all star that won a seed round based on CEO Drew Houston’s application (Read here: Dropbox’s summer 2007 application). The company, currently based in San Francisco has raised $1.5 million from Sequoia Capital.
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by Jason Wilk on December 10, 2008
- Amazon today has announced they will broaden their Amazon EC2 virtual storage service to include European markets. Statements:
“With today’s launch, European developers and businesses with European customers can take advantage of the latest features for Amazon EC2 including multiple Availability Zones, Elastic IP addresses, and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). In the near future, Amazon EC2 will also add support for Windows Server and SQL Server in the EU which is a new feature that was recently introduced on Amazon EC2 in the U.S.”
- What’s so great about EC2? Well, EC2 users rent servers and pay per instance-hour of power consumed. Basically, users only pay for how much they use as opposed to trying to guess if you have too little or too much storage. In the US, an instance-hour costs around $0.10. The price will be equivalent to $0.13 in Europe.
- This is good news for Europan startups looking to flex the power they uses. Companies like Pownce and Justin.tv are both using EC2 here in the US. We will see reports soon what kind of adoption EC2 will receive in Europe. TC
by Jason Wilk on October 21, 2008
- Lala scans your iTunes library and puts all your music onto an identical looking music player online.
- You can now stream your songs from any computer in the world. The best part of the service is the ability to download songs for 10 cents. Huh?
- The catch is they are only web downloads, so you can stream the song an unlimited amount of times online but have to pay the rest of the dollar to download it to your computer or another device.
- Cool service nonetheless and getting a lot of hype around the sphere.
Will iTuned ever go into the cloud?
TC
by glu on September 4, 2008
- Dell’s new lightweight, $350 laptop only has 4GB of storage.
- Isn’t that less than my iPhone?
- Yes, and it’s because they have integrated the Box.net cloud storage application on the computer
- All your files can be dragged or saved directly onto your Box app, which will store everything online and give you easy access to them when you need it.
Anyone going to be switching to this computer?
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by John Jorgensen on September 3, 2008
- Steven Hodson expands on fellow Mashable writer Mark Hopkins’ earlier post, which explained that Bill Gates has been talking about what we now refer to as “cloud computing” for two decades.
- Hodson says that in fact, cloud computing goes all the way back to the days of dumb terminals and mainframes, when “some programmer remotely compiled a program on some gigantic DEC or IBM server.”
- Hodson states that the cloud computing of the past was about “making it easier for the workers to access their data.”
- Although the client/server concept has stayed the same, now “it is all about companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon … find[ing] new ways to lock their customers in and make a fortune doing so.”
- Hodson says it won’t be long until the companies mentioned above begin charging for their currently free services, using all the peoples’ data they now control as leverage in order to pay for their quickly rising database costs.
- Concludes: “It’s the same greedy pigs just with a new coat of make up … one generation’s client/server is another generation’s cloud computing.”
Do you agree? Where do you see the future of “cloud computing” going?
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