by Angela Guess
Graeme Burton of Computing.co.uk reports that cloud storage is on the rise, and Amazon Web Services has the proof. Burton writes, “Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud services unit of the global online retailer, has launched AWS Marketplace, an online store where clients can find, buy and deploy software that runs on AWS. The Marketplace features software from vendors including Computer Associates; Canonical, the producer of Ubuntu Linux; Couchbase, the company behind the open source NoSQL database; security software vendor Check Point Software; IBM; Microsoft; SUSE; Red Hat; SAP and PHP software developer Zend – as well as WordPress, Drupal and MediaWiki.”
Burton continues, “The launch was announced this week by Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels at the AWS Summit in New York. Vogels claims that there are now several hundred thousand businesses across the world running applications, partly or wholly, using AWS. “In the past year and a half, we have seen tremendous growth in enterprises using AWS, and it is in all kinds of industries,” said Vogels. Furthermore, it has enjoyed almost exponential increases in popularity and usage. For example, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), an online storage web service, can boast just over 900 billion stored objects in the first quarter – a nine-fold increase from the 102 billion claimed by Amazon in March 2010 – and will break through the one trillion mark before the end of the second quarter.”
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