May 20

Amazon’s cloud storage services are going to be getting another major competitor this week: Google.

We hear that this week during its I/O conference, Google will be announcing a new service that is a direct competitor with Amazon’s S3 cloud storage. Google’s service will be called Google Storage for Developers, or ‘GS’. We believe it will be available in a private beta initially.

We also hear that the service will be positioned to make it very easy for existing S3 customers to make the switch to Google Storage.Features will include a REST API, the ability to use Google accounts to offer authenticated downloads, and data redundancy. Developers will be able to use a command line tool to manage their data, and there will be a web interface as well.We’d previously reported that Google was looking to expand its cloud service offerings, but that it would primarily be focused on ‘value-added’ services that took advantage of technology Google has been using internally, like its translation tools and video processing.

We’re hearing that such value-added services will not be part of this launch, but it is highly likely that they will be coming in the future. And that’s the key here — competitors will have a hard time matching the array of technologies and infrastructure Google has spent years developing.

via Google To Launch Amazon S3 Competitor ‘Google Storage’ At I/O.

Apr 29

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Enterprise Service Bus

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SOA Management

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Data Interoperability

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Mainframe Integration

Progress® DataDirect Shadow is a comprehensive mainframe modernization toolset, eliminating the complexity and enhancing the performance of mainframe integration within more modern SOA initiatives.  Shadow streamlines connectivity to mainframe relational and non-relational databases such as Adabas, IMS DB, and VSAM.

Complex Event Processing

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Registry/Repository

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