Category: Cloud Computing

We’ve done the topic of Amazon’s development of core DAM services to death in various previous posts.  The latest update “CloudSearch” is further encroachment by Amazon on the services which many of their customers are already offering:

“Amazon CloudSearch is a fully managed search service in the cloud. …

If anyone in the software applications business (DAM vendors included) still doubts that AWS are moving in on their patch by providing building block services for integrators to implement, then this tutorial from Amazon about their new AWS Identity and Access Management should remove them:

“In this blog post, …

Amazon today reported that they have introduced SWF, which despite the TLA doesn’t have anything to do with Flash but means ‘Simplified Workflow Service‘.  The facility is available through their Cloud API and allows application developers to track various workflow states:

“Today AWS launched an exciting new …

In this article Nolan Jones at ProPrint examines the implications of cloud computing for printing businesses and how digital asset management may allow printers to not merely use the cloud, but to become the cloud.

“This is digital asset management (DAM), which goes hand in hand with web-to-print storefront. As …

CMSWire.com features an article by Edward Smith from Extensis with the title: “Does Digital Asset Management Belong On Your Server or in the Cloud?”  Despite the disclaimer about his background (Extensis being renowned as ‘on premise’ rather than a Cloud vendor), Edward presents a fairly even handed summary …

As most readers will be aware, last week Amazon’s AWS Cloud service had a major outage that affected a number of popular websites and services.  There has been no shortage of comment from the mainstream media, websites and blogs.  A number of DAM vendors (both pure play Cloud offerings and …

Chris Hoff, writing on his Rational Survivability Blog discusses his contempt for  “Cloudbursting”, this is a corruption of the term ‘bursting’ and refers to a technique where enterprises can increase capacity rapidly for a short period of time by temporarily expanding out into a public Cloud infrastructure:

“Either you …

The National Archives of Australia (NAA) has published an article about the risks of outsourcing data storage to external providers who hold records in the cloud.  NAA have indicated that most of the risks can be mitigated if recognised:

• Regulatory requirements may be broken
• The storage location may create

DAM consultants, Daydream have published a blog post that discusses the risks of Cloud hosting.  They make reference to Wikileaks and the financial crisis as good examples of why you should avoid placing too much trust in Cloud hosting as your exclusive method of delivery:

“I do believe …

In a further significant move for the use of Cloud based storage for Digital Asset Management, Amazon have announced on their web services blog that their S3 service will now handle objects (files or digital assets) up to 5TB in size.  This makes S3 a serious proposition for storage of …

Jinesh Varia writing on the Amazon AWS blog does a good job of summarising the three main types of Cloud licences that are prevalent for applications and services:

1. Bring Your Own License (BYOL) Model
2. Utility Pricing Model with a Support Package
3. ISV SaaS-based Cloud Service

Also included is some advice …