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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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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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

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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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Now tell me, how you share your files over internet, How you handle it especially when your business grows and need a really professional tool for this job? Well before deciding a FTP file sharing service to start with, you must assure and test the service on three vital aspect of a FTP file sharing service:

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The AIAP is pleased to announce a partnership with HostedFTP.com to provide you with access to HostedFTP.com’s file sharing solutions at a 20% discount. HostedFTP.com offers photographers a cloud file sharing solution that is secure, reliable and easy to use. HostedFTP is now offering AIAP members a 20% discount on all fees for their service for as long as you have an account. Hosted entirely within the cloud computing infrastructure that Amazon.com uses, HostedFTP.com offers unparalleled security for your image files.

“The move to digital photography has created both opportunities and challenges for photographers. While there is now the possibility to present clients with greater choice and selection due to the reduced cost of shooting digital, photographers must grapple with how to deliver and manage ever increasing numbers of large files. This is where HostedFTP.com comes in,” says Ken Davies, Director of Business Development for HostedFTP.com.

HostedFTP.com provides FREE, no risk trial accounts so you can see for yourself if their service is the right file sharing solution for your business. Please visit the HostedFTP website for further details on their service: http://www.hostedftp.com

Alan Blakely,

Director The Association of Independent Architectural Photographers

www.aiap.net

DURHAM, NC (March 3, 2009) – The National Press Photographers association is pleased to announce a partnership with HostedFTP.com to provide NPPA members with access to HostedFTP.com’s file sharing solution through NPPA’s discounted special offers.

Built to replace FTP servers and remove the need to burn and courier DVDs, HostedFTP.com is a file sharing solution that is secure, reliable, and easy to use. Hosted entirely within the cloud computing infrastructure that Amazon.com uses, HostedFTP.com says that they offer unparalleled security for your files.

“The move to digital photography has created both opportunities and challenges for photographers,” says Ken Davies, director of business development for HostedFTP.com. “While there is now the possibility to present clients with greater choice and selection due to the reduced cost of shooting digital, photographers must grapple with how to deliver and manage ever increasing numbers of large files. This is where HostedFTP.com comes in.”

With no software to install or maintain, HostedFTP.com requires only a Web browser and works on all operating systems and comes complete with an FTP server that works with all the popular FTP clients available today.

“HostedFTP.com provides free, no risk trial accounts so users can see for themselves why it is the right file sharing solution for your business,” Davies says. “Please visit our Web site for further details.

“Customers only need a browser to use the service, so the simple factor is covered, too. Looks like something to look into for SMBs.”

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

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