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IBM on Monday will begin offering businesses a basic “cloud computing” email service at a price that undercuts a plusher offering by Internet giant Google.

IBM unabashedly pitched its new LotusLive iNotes as an alternative to email service Google has been promoting as part of a campaign to win businesses over to using applications hosted as services on the Internet.

“Email and other collaboration services are the right entry point for many companies to realize the promise of cloud computing,” said IBM Lotus Software general manager Bob Picciano.

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HostedFTP is currently using Amazons EC2 and S3 hosting technology.

So we feel that providing our users with a better understanding of EC2 and S3 and how it works would be
beneficial to your business.

Analysts predict that Cloud Computing and SaaS will be a $160 Billion dollar industry by the year 2015.

A frequently asked question regarding the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform is how well their storage system (S3) performs with their computing platform (EC2).

As a file sharing solution that runs entirely within the AWS cloud, HostedFTP.com has, based on our internal performance data, created this report to discuss the performance you can expect when storing and retrieving files between an EC2 instance and S3.

We will also be reporting on how the AWS infrastructure performs over time. Each month we will publish updates to the data to give you an insider’s view on how well AWS scales as they continue to add capacity and customers.

A quick summary of the results reveal:

10 to 12 MB/second when storing and receiving files

140 ms per file stored as a fixed overhead cost

To read the 1st report click here
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Our focus at HostedFTP.com is on two things: saving your business money and improving your network security. Here’s how we do it.
We eliminate these direct costs from your business by providing a complete file sharing solution whose only requirement is a web browser. Couriers and other expensive ad hoc solutions Your business will need to share files at some point. Make sure that you have a solution like HostedFTP.com in place so you can avoid costly alternatives such as couriers and other ad hoc solutions.

Improve network security by..

Replacing FTP servers
Our FTP server includes encryption to ensure your username and passwords stay safe from snooping. In addition, by running an FTP server you are forced to open your network up to the public Internet, this can only lead to security problems.
Choosing a solution backed by Amazon.com
We aren’t in the infrastructure business – but Amazon.com is. Our service, along with your files, are 100% completely hosted in their secure infrastructure, the same infrastructure they run their business on on a daily basis.

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