Archive for the ‘Cloud Storage’ Category

Amazon S3 Import/Export Options for Big Data Shipments

Backing up data is a vitally important thing to all organizations, including colleges and universities.  With a warehouse full of past and current students’ data it becomes extremely important to keep this information safe and secure.

Amazon recently announced an Import/Export service for S3 that lets you ship or have them ship a hard drive loaded with hundreds of gigabytes or more that would normally take days or longer to backup through even the fastest data connection.  In the announcement Amazon states:

Amazon Web Services has announced the limited beta of AWS Import/Export, a new offering that accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport. For significant data sets, AWS Import/Export is often faster than Internet transfer and more cost effective than upgrading your connectivity. You can use AWS Import/Export for migrating data into the cloud, sending backups to AWS, and interchanging data with others.

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$5 Million in Grants for Universities Towards Cloud Computing Initiatives

This past week it was announced that the IBM/Google cloud computing initiative is giving 14 universities almost $5 million in grants to pick up cloud computing projects.  The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the grant money.

Award Winners

  1. Carnegie-Mellon University
  2. Flordia International Unviersity
  3. MIT
  4. Purdue
  5. University of California-Irvine
  6. UC-San Diego
  7. UC-Santa Barbara
  8. University of Maryland
  9. University of Massachusetts
  10. University of Virginia
  11. University of Washington
  12. University of Wisconsin
  13. University of Utah
  14. Yale

Although these universities will run a range of projects what is most interesting is academia’s excitement and embracement of this rapidly developing and exciting technology.

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