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SEO Company, Emineer, Boasts 100% First Page Success Rate – Jags Report
Nov 5th
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SEO Company, Emineer, Boasts 100% First Page Success Rate
Jags Report New York, NY, November 05, 2011 –(PR.com)– New York-based SEO company, Emineer, is fast becoming a legitimate contender in the vast SEO arena, and not at the least due to its impressive track record. Since its founding, it has boasted a 100% first page … |
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CloudStack Takes the Plunge: Now 100% Open Source
Aug 30th
Citrix is moving fast since acquiring Cloud.com in July. After less than two months with Cloud.com, Citrix has decided to bet heavy on the open cloud by merging all code into the open source release of CloudStack.
CloudStack is similar to Amazon EC2, but it allows organizations to run a private cloud rather than depending on managed software from a provider. But CloudStack has a number of important differences between EC2 and other proprietary solutions like VMware vSphere.
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First off, CloudStack provides support for a number of hypervisors – and companies can mix and match. You can use CloudStack with VMware, XenServer, Oracle VM, KVM, and others. A newer feature in CloudStack provides bare metal provisioning, allowing companies to provision an OS to a system using PXE right away – no need to pre-install an OS. CloudStack also has a pretty good Web-based management interface.
It also has pretty much the standard set of features you’d expect from any cloud software: monitoring, usage metering, VM sync and high availability features, and so on. The full set of features is on the CloudStack site.
The decision to open source and do so all the way was an easy one to make when we looked at how other commercial open source (open core projects) had fared. We knew that we needed to do this and with the acquisition by Citrix it gives us a lot more resources than we had has a small company and their overwhelming support to do this right way.
The feature set isn’t the big news, though – the move to the GPLv3 is. The project has been open source for some time, but not entirely. The company had kept two codebases – one for the community, one for paying customers. This means that the open source community now has (or will have) all the same features as customers like GoDaddy. Previously, the company held back connectors for proprietary software, such as VMware’s hypervisor and connectors to NetApp storage and F5 load balancers. A preview release is out now, though it’s not considered production ready just yet.
So why is the company going in this direction? Mark Hinkle, director of cloud computing community with Citrix, says that it was a no-brainer. “The decision to open source and do so all the way was an easy one to make when we looked at how other commercial open source (open core projects) had fared. We knew that we needed to do this and with the acquisition by Citrix it gives us a lot more resources than we had has a small company and their overwhelming support to do this right way.”
But they’ve been working fairly quietly, says Hinkle, because of the “unique problem of many customers and huge demand from day one.”
Over time, the company will also be “converging” CloudStack with OpenStack. The plan over the next six months is to release a Citrix-tested version of OpenStack, support OpenStack APIs in CloudStack, and provide a common management interface for both platforms.
The big question here is whether the licensing will matter to enterprise customers. VMware is fairly entrenched in the private cloud space, and Amazon is well ahead in the hosted cloud space. Rackspace and Citrix seem to be betting that the licensing is going to matter a lot to customers. What do you think? Is open source the way to go with CloudStack? If so, is the GPLv3 the right choice?
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Google Adds 100+ Domains, Signals Plans For National Small Biz Push
Aug 25th
Google appears to be readying plans to roll out its “Get Your Business Online” program across the U.S. That’s based on Mike Blumenthal’s discovery that Google has recently added more than 100 domains to its portfolio, with URLs such as coloradogetonline.com,…
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100+ WWDC Session Videos Now Online
Jun 25th
Registered Apple developers who were unable to attend this year’s WWDC can now watch what they missed over on Apple’s Developer Center website. Apple has posted 109 WWDC session videos online, which include both videos of the presentations and the accompanying slideshows.
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The session breakdown is as follows:
- App Frameworks: 32 sessions
- Core OS: 13 sessions
- Developer Tools: 20 sessions
- Graphics, Media and Games: 24 sessions
- Internet and Web: 19 sessions
Of course, in order to access any of this content, you’ll need to be a member of Apple’s Developer Program. If that’s the already the case for you, then go ahead and click here for the Developement Videos page.
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Spotify Raises $100 Million; U.S. Launch Imminent?
Jun 17th
European music streaming service Spotify has closed a $100 million round of funding in anticipation of a launch in North America. The round comes from DST, Kleiner Perkins and Accel.
American consumers who pay attention to the tech and music industries may have a bit of Spotify whiplash. It is coming. It didn’t come. Why didn’t it come? It is going to be integrated into Facebook. The saga goes. With this funding round, reported by AllThingsD, is Spotify finally on the boat across the pond? As consumers, do you even care anymore?
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The funding values Spotify at $1 billion. Free U.S. music streaming service Pandora, which has been going through the IPO tumult this week, is valued at $2.07 billion as of 12:10 p.m. EST, June 17 (these things can change rapidly, that might not be the valuation in an hour). It has raised €83.2 million ($119 million or so by current conversion rates) before this most recent round of funding.
Spotify has signed music streaming agreements with three of the four major U.S. record labels and is reported to be in talks with the fourth, Warner Music Group. AllThingsD points out that Warner Music Group sold for $3.3 billion to Russian billionaire Len Blavatnik in early May.
Spotify’s Facebook integration is not expected to hop the pond when the music streaming service does. It is expected that the business model will not change in the U.S., with free users allowed a certain amount of hourly usage per month and paid users allowed unlimited streaming.
Spotify is going to have to try and differentiate itself to get U.S. users to pony up $10 a month for the service. It is not like they are lacking for options. MOG, Rdio, iTunes (iCloud coming), Google Music Beta and Amazon all have strong offerings on the market.
Does Spotify still excite you? Will you become a subscriber when it finally hits the shores of the New World?
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Google Offers $100 Bribe To Bring Lapsed AdWords Advertisers Back To The Fold
May 5th
Haven’t used AdWords in a while? Here’s $100. Spend it all in one place — your AdWords account. That’s the gist of a new Google effort to reactivate AdWords users who’ve let their accounts grow dormant. The company reached out to these users yesterday with a plea,…
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