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As hard as I tried I couldn’t resist the lure of doing some type of year-end/new year type cloud blog. However, I decided to forgo the route of giving you a recap of what happened this year in cloud computing or attempting to guess where the rapidly expanding and changing cloud market is going via a list of 2010 cloud predictions. Instead, I’ve decided to give you my very own 2010 cloud computing wish list. Mind you, the things on this list aren’t predictions for what’s going to happen, nor is it made up of items that have a direct tie to any particular offerings. This is simply a list of what I’m hoping to see happen in the cloud computing space over the next year.

1) Application-centric cloud platforms: This is something I wrote about earlier in the year and truly believe is necessary for adoption in the PaaS segment to continue to grow. In many PaaS offerings today, things like servers and application containers are the primary resources that users configure and provision into a cloud. In reality, these resources are many times just a means to an end, which is the hosting of applications and services. A higher level of value would be realized if users could define an application along with it characteristics and dependencies and then have a PaaS solution provision the necessary infrastructure under the covers based on the application profile. In this way, platforms are truly rendered as a service.

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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
To subscribe to future reports click here

HostedFTP.com is pleased to announce that developers can now access the file sharing functionality of HostedFTP.com through our API.

The HostedFTP.com API consists solely of simple FTP “get” commands – making it very easy for scripting and other batch processing.

For more information click here