By now, you’ve probably heard of Google’s plans to compete with Amazon.com’s S3 cloud storage service. Google Storage for Developers, as the new offering is called, gives developers direct access to Google’s scalable storage and networking infrastructure as well as authentication and data sharing mechanisms. Not to be outdone, Amazon.com has come up with its own twist: a new
Monthly Archives for May 2010
28 May 2010
Cloud storage is already showing signs of Phase Two (see our post on the cloud storage maturity model), as a new set of solutions arrive in the marketplace. These solutions are referred to as cloud gateways, on ramps, cloud clients, edge devices and other exotic names. For ease of discussion, lets use “cloud client” to