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Dropbox vs. Google Drive vs. Amazon vs. Skydrive: Which One Is Fastest?

Dropbox vs. Google Drive vs. Amazon vs. Skydrive: Which One Is Fastest?

How Amazon's Rising Headwaters Could Threaten Google

How Amazon's Rising Headwaters Could Threaten Google

Google And SAP: Two Very Different Cloud Strategies

Google And SAP: Two Very Different Cloud Strategies

ReadWriteCloud is dedicated to helping IT managers, software architects, and other technology professionals - as well as individual users - take advantage of the opportunities presented by the rise of virtualization and cloud computing.

Friday, 24th May 2013

Hadoop 2.0: Brace Yourself For This Summer's Big Data Breakthrough

Hadoop 2.0: Brace Yourself For This Summer's Big Data Breakthrough

Hadoop has long been held back by its MapReduce limitations. But that's all about to change.

Cloud Brian Proffitt comments

Waze Mapped As The Billion-Dollar Treasure

Waze Mapped As The Billion-Dollar Treasure

Google is now the latest company rumored to be looking at Waze, for the tune of $1 billion.

Cloud ReadWrite Editors comments

Thursday, 23rd May 2013

Google App Engine Cuts Prices By One-Quarter

Google App Engine Cuts Prices By One-Quarter

Google is coming after Amazon with some significant price reductions for some App Engine tools.

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Friday, 17th May 2013

App Not Working? It Might Be Time To Check The 'Weather'

App Not Working? It Might Be Time To Check The 'Weather'

If you depend on an outside Web service for your own app or service to work, you need to know how to check the API weather reports.

Cloud Brian Proffitt comments

Google Sensors Are Data Mining I/O Attendees - And They Like It!

Google Sensors Are Data Mining I/O Attendees - And They Like It!

The thousands of attendees at the Google I/O developers conference this week are unwitting guinea pigs for the company's latest Big Data experiment. And they don't seem to have a problem with that.

Cloud Mark Hachman comments

Google Is Prepping A Sneak Attack On Microsoft Office With QuickOffice

Google Is Prepping A Sneak Attack On Microsoft Office With QuickOffice

The future of Google Apps lies within the QuickOffice app Google bought last year, Google sources told ReadWrite. And it's coming soon - to be added to the Chromebook Pixels Google handed out at Google I/O.

Cloud Mark Hachman comments

Thursday, 16th May 2013

An Open Source Safety Net For The Cloud: Learning From Xeround's Failure

An Open Source Safety Net For The Cloud: Learning From Xeround's Failure

Given the risk of SaaS failure, is open source a viable back-up plan? Should cloud providers be offering a version of their product as open source so that customers can continue running the service locally if the vendor dies?

Cloud Matt Asay comments

Wednesday, 15th May 2013

With New Photos, Search, and Maps, Google's Cloud Gets Smart

With New Photos, Search, and Maps, Google's Cloud Gets Smart

Google wants your data. But as today's new consumer-facing product launches show, it's applying ever more intelligence to it, tapping into the power of its cloud to do so.

Cloud Mark Hachman comments

Cloud Computing

How Cloud Computing Will Save Hollywood

How Cloud Computing Will Save Hollywood

Cloud computing could help speed production of Hollywood blockbuster movies.

Cloud Robert Jenkins comments

Tuesday, 14th May 2013

Internet of Things

Xively Actually Connects Things In The Internet Of Things

Xively Actually Connects Things In The Internet Of Things

A new cloud platform offers a commercial common ground for letting devices connect to one another in the Internet of Things.

Cloud Brian Proffitt comments

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