Love this. Seems like a smart move, and should help give RackSpace some attention on CloudFiles. I don’t know what exactly will happen with JungleDisk in terms of storage options. I’m hoping that it’s the customer’s option for which (or both?) cloud to use for storing their files. Looking at the CloudFiles site, it seems that their pricing has gotten competive with Amazon and that they are leverage LimeLight to provide access to files via their CDN.
Archive for October, 2008
Ylastic is putting a management interface for AWS on the iPhone. Looks pretty cool.
I am familiar with their name, but don’t have any experience with their product. I sort of wish these sorts of tools could be open sourced (and there are some) so that I could run the management service on my own servers and not hand over my AWS keys. Like I said, I don’t have experience with their product, so maybe I’m making an assumption there.
As I’ve said earlier about AWS, it’s an amazing service, but is very much like a raw material. It’s like having someone hand you the keys to a datacenter, and you don’t even know how to turn on the lights. Ylastic fits into the category of management vendors for AWS, and I think that Amazon’s ultimate success will depend on management vendors who extend the web services to the layperson.
CNN’s “Unedited” and “Unfiltered” news site, iReport, is showing a false story this morning about Steve Jobs being rushed to the ER. Apple’s stock price showed a volatile reaction to the news following a pretty decent climb after the market opened this morning. Someone made money on this — criminal. I’m all for citizen reporting, but CNN sends mixed signals by attaching its brand to false news and rumors.
