This Week in Cloud Computing - Rob May, Founder of Backupify
发布时间 2010-06-17 18:42:15 来源
摘要
This week we have Rob May, Founder of Backupify and Steve Larsen, CEO of PhoneTell. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com/cloudcomputing
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NEWS HEADLINES
YouTube has confirmed a free cloud-based Video Editor that makes it simple for anyone to do basic things like trim video and replace background noise with music. You can trim and edit fully high-definition 1080p video.
The E3 gaming conference is currently happening in LA this week, and a number of companies are announcing gaming initiatives in the cloud. OnLive's cloud gaming service hosts all game content on its own centralized servers, doing all the processing remotely so a low-end netbook could be used as a gaming machine. Gaikai and Otay are providing similar services.
Amazon's EC2 creators are launching a cloud computing startup called Benguela next week at the Structure conference. They haven't revealed much about it, but founders Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon claim to have built 'cloud infrastructure software that will revolutionize how enterprises interact with the cloud.' They're backed by Sequoia Capital.
Eucalyptus has announced support for Windows Virtual Machines (VMs), in a major upgrade to its open source software for private and hybrid cloud computing.
Intuit's web sites are being hit by a major outage which started yesterday at 7pm. Intuit isn't providing any details on the cause or estimated recovery time.
INTERVIEW
Guest Rob May, Founder of Backupify.
Discussion on Backupify and ABI Research and more.
APP OF THE WEEK
Steve Larsen, CEO of PhoneTell
Steve discusses CitySearch, BigFix, and we get to see a Demo of the App
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