
Relevance Of Open Source In A Cloud Based World: Boto And Google Storage
The Clouderati are still busy debating whether open source has any relevance in the cloud based world. This video is one such debate which you might be interested in watching. As I have told in the past, there are two schools of thoughts. One, lead by folks like Tim O’ Reilly, advocate the importance of […]

CloudBerry’s Scare Tactic Backfires.
I have been using Amazon’s S3 product for a while now to manage gigabytes of my company’s information. Naturally, in this time I have been looking for a tool which will assist me to accomplish this task with minimum fuss. A few months ago, I came across a new tool called CloudBerry Explorer. Upon first […]
Amazon Uses Old Fashioned Technology To Deliver Clouds
Amazon just announced that they are offering a new service as a part of their AWS offering called AWS Import/Export. This service will help users move large amounts of data on to or out of Amazon S3. Even though we are in an era of Cloud Computing, our infrastructure is broken. The broadband speeds in […]

Sun Microsystems Plans To Compete With Amazon Web Services
Image via Wikipedia Sun Microsystems will be making some announcements on Wednesday regarding their Cloud offerings. Here at Cloud Avenue, we got a chance to talk to the folks at Sun, in advance, about their announcement and I am going to share it here on this post. So far Sun has been talking vaguely about their plans […]

Managing EC2 Instances On the iPhone
Image via CrunchBase Ever since I bought my iPhone, I wanted to have an app that will help me manage Amazon EC2 instances through it. After I bought my iPhone, I have stopped taking my laptop and data card everywhere to manage any emergencies in any of the servers I manage. I use pTerm application […]

Living in the Clouds – S3 and Jungledisk
Image via CrunchBase, source unknown In this edition of Living in the Clouds Series, I am going to talk about two apps, one web app and a desktop app. The combination of these two apps is a very potent tool for anyone wanting to backup their data on the Clouds. Amazon S3 is the cloud […]

Amazon S3 Storing 29 Billion Objects
Jeff Barr from Amazon Web Service reports that Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is now storing more than 29 billion objects, an increase of 7 billion from the previous quarter: As one of the S3 engineers told me last week, that's over 4 objects for every person now on Earth! Our customers are keeping S3 […]

Crushing Bandwidth – One Cloud at a Time
Here at CloudAve we're constantly looking for new case studies that justify our love of all things in the cloud. I came across a really interesting post (by the way – big ups to Diigo who we use for our collaborative sharing tool) that is an excellent case. Heavy is a ad revenue company that […]