IBM opens one Cloud Computing data center in India. Apart from this data center IBM has opened three other cloud computing data centers also. These for new cloud computing data centers will help enterprises, universities and governments test Web-based services and applications. The Society for the Promotion of Excellence in Brazilian Software (SOFTEX) and Vietnam Technology and Telecommunications (VNTT) are some of the early customers for the new cloud computing centers. With these four new data centers IBM has total 13 data centers.

Ponani Gopalakrishnan, vice president of IBM’s India Software Lab, Said

Cloud computing is a relatively new technology, and issues such as usage models need to be studied. The cloud computing model allows businesses and consumers to remotely access computers over the Internet to access services, IBM said. Using shared infrastructure like a cloud computing center allows businesses to manage and provision IT infrastructure dynamically depending on the requirements of business. The new center in India is positioned as an experimental platform for businesses and academic institutions to deploy and test applications.  While the platform would be offered free to academic institutions that IBM partners with, businesses will be charged. There are a number of production-scale applications using cloud computing available. Academic institutions in India are expected to work on using cloud computing for e-government applications and researching deployment models for cloud computing. Inadequate communications bandwidth in emerging economies like India will not be a bottleneck for the adoption of cloud computing. There are a lot of mobile applications built around cloud computing, for example, that run on less than broadband-grade connectivity.

Source : IBM- Cloud computing spreads in emerging countries

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Amazon is planning to launch a Content Delivery Web Service by the end of this year. This new (and as yet unnamed) service will provide you with a high performance way to distribute popular, publicly readable content to your customers all over the world, with low latency and high data transfer rates. currently this web service is in private beta testing and will be latest in Amazon’s cloud computing services.

Amazon’s content delivery web service help developers to focus on their application rather then payment, billing, fulfillment and Web search services, all these services will be provided by Amazon’s content delivery web service.

How Amazon’s Content Delivery Web service Will Work

Start by storing your content in an Amazon S3 bucket and then marking the content as publicly readable. Next you’ll make a single API call to register the bucket. The call will return a domain name that you’ll use to refer to your content in your web page or application. When clients request the object via the returned domain name they’ll be routed to the nearest edge location, for high performance delivery.

Amazon’s Content Delivery Web service Goals

• Allow developers and businesses to get started easily, with no dollar or volume commitments. Like our other services, this one will be pay-as-you-go.
• Be simple and easy to use. In fact, a single API call is all that’s needed for you to start delivering your content.
• Work seamlessly with Amazon S3, for durable storage of the definitive versions of your content.
• Have a global presence, using edge locations on three continents in order to deliver your content from the most appropriate location

Dam Selipsky, vice president of product management and developer relations for Amazon Web Services, said

Amazon Web Services for the past several years has been operating a cloud computing platform that’s meant to remove the need for a lot of companies to run their own IT infrastructure. One of the missing pieces for that has been content delivery for popular content. Our customers have clearly told us that’s a capability they’d like to see in the platform.

Tal Saraf, general manager of the new AWS content delivery service, said

Customers participating in the beta testing program are using the service for a wide variety of tasks, including distribution of podcasts, progressive download of video clips, delivery of photos and serving up of Web site objects like CSS and JavaScript files. They’re using it for a wide spectrum of frequently accessed content that’s distributed around the world.

Source : Amazon Web Services Blog and CIO

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