Infographic : Hosting to Storage - Why the Cloud is a Big Deal for Small Businesses

Cloud computing helps businesses get off the ground with little upfront investment and operate on a shoestring while accessing technology and applications traditionally reserved for big businesses.

Services like web hosting, hosted storage, and email hosting take the financial strain and workload off of business so they can focus on their core competencies. Take a look at what a big deal the cloud is becoming for small businesses.


Rackspace® — [INFOGRAPHIC] Hosting to Storage: Why the Cloud is a Big Deal for Small Businesses





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Infographic : Healthcare in the Cloud

Cloud computing is changing the way healthcare delivers care. Over 70% of health care providers are planning to deploy cloud technologies like email, collaboration, scheduling, and other systems so they can focus on patient care, not caring for complex IT systems.

The growing healthcare IT industry is in the spotlight this week with National Health IT Week sponsored by Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. In recognition of the partnership between the cloud and healthcare, we took a look at how cloud computing is impacting the healthcare industry.


Rackspace® — [Infographic] Healthcare in the Cloud



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AWS Week in Review - September 3rd to September 9th, 2012

Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week:

Tuesday, September 4	Jeff posted a new AWS Report, Michael Kellen of Sage Bionetworks. AWS announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in Singapore.
Wednesday, September 5	AWS posted a new AWS case study. This study describes how Edmodo uses Amazon RDS to handle 500 database connections per second and 200K web requests per minute. Amazon CloudFront now supports Cookies, Price Classes, and enhanced logging.
Friday, September 7	Jeff posted another new AWS Report, Colin Lazier talks about Amazon Glacier.

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Getting Started with Amazon Glacier

Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions.

Retrieving archives from Amazon Glacier requires the initiation of a job. Jobs typically complete in 3 to 5 hours. You organize your archives in vaults
The quick start video for Amazon Glacier walks you through on how-to use the AWS Management console to create vaults in Amazon Glacier.

To upload the data to Amazon Glacier, users must use the SDKs/APIs provided by AWS for uploading the data.








In case your data is too huge to be uploaded through internet, you can make use of another AWS Service - AWS Import/Export. It accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices (see supported devices) for transport. You can ship your device along with its interface connectors, and power supply to AWS. When your package arrives, it will be processed and securely transferred to an AWS data center, where your device will be attached to an AWS Import/Export station. After the data load completes, the device will be returned to you.

For more information, please visit the Amazon Glacier Product Page and the Amazon Glacier Developer Guide.