Friday Cloud News Roundup
Cloud is the Answer to Exabytes of Genomics Data
While technology companies like Life Technologies and Illumina have developed instruments that can fully sequence the human genome in one day, the going question is, how can they make it affordable to store, process and analyze all genomic data?
An article in GigaOM reports the introduction of a cloud-based platform for storing and analyzing genomics data by DNANexus. The company’s founder and CEO, Andreas Sundquist believes that cloud computing will directly adress these concerns:
- Keeping up with exploding data volume
- Sending terabytes of data across the internet
- Paying software licenses
With the popularity of human genome sequencing, the projected data volume of data is 1 exabyte or 1 million terabytes by 2014. Sundquist says that aside from its ability to accommodate such a large volume of data, the cloud generally costs less over time.
Read more on the statistics of increasing genomics demand and how te cloud is believed to resolve the anticipated issues, visit GigaOM now.
Cloud Unified Communications Service
Unified Communication (UC) is the going trend for enterprises in their attempt to increase productivity and simplify communications. However, new issues arise, with the adoption of US solutions comes financial and technological challenges.
AT&T seems to have a solution as they announced the release of their Cloud US services in eWeek. This new system eliminates most hardware integration and installation and help organizations control costs and prevent unpredictable expenditures.
Said to have partnered with cloud hosting provides, SoftLayer, the UC cloud is a user-friendly, single user interface for PC and mobile and has the capabilities to integrate multiple communications and collaboration tools such as:
- Instant messaging/ chat
- VoIP calling
- Web/audio and video conferencing
Read the full article and find out the other advantages that AT&T’s Cloud USC services provide – visit eWeek now.
Audio Books Via the Cloud
An article in Mobiletor announced Audiobooks.com’s new cloud-based audio book service. This step is seen to be revolutionizing the audiobooks industry.
Here are some highlights of the service:
- User-friendly, contractless
- Mobile accessibility
- Cloud-based bookmarking function
- Affordable access to unlimited service
The company is already offering thousands of popular book titles that can be accessed from the internet by Android and iOS devices.
To find out the pricing and other details of this new service, click here.
Cloud Data Storage and Sharing: Alternatives to MegaUpload
With the closure of file sharing site, MegaUpload, users are now looking for replacements. An eWeek article lists down 10 legitimate alternatives that offer the same storage and sharing services.
The list includes:
- Dropbox
- Rapidshare
- Sugar Sync
- Box
- Media Fire
Find out the rest of the sites from the list, visit the article at eWeek now.
Cloud-Based eBook Lending
An article in MPRNews announced that St. Paul Public Library in Minnesota wil begin the formal trial of 3M’s “Cloud Library” system, along with 10 other public libraries in the United States.
This roll-out was inspired by the increasing number of Americans owning e-readers such as Kindle, Nook and iPad. 3M, a company that has a long history of serving libraries will now aid these institutions in building and managing the lending of e-books.
It is expected that e-book lending will eventually account for 20% of book lending in libraries. Here are some advantages of cloud-based e-book lending:
- Cannot be damaged or lost
- No need to physically return the e-book
- No need to physically go back to the library for queued books
Read the rest of the article and find out the other technological initiatives of 3M at MPRnews.
Cloud Computing Survey on SMB’s
A recent cloud computing survey conducted by Business Webhosting Plans to over 500 businesses displayed findings in PRWeb.
Here are the results from the survey:
25% of businesses have been using cloud computing for 2.5 years
75% of businesses have been using cloud computing even longer than 2.5 years
The company said that most of these businesses were already using cloud computing and they were not even aware. Small and medium sized businesses are really the ones that benefitted from shifting a significant workload from their computers to a cloud computing system.
Visit PRWeb to read the rest of the article and find out further results of the survey.
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