Cloud Computing

The Price of the Cloud

Space Monkey just completed a very successful Kickstarter Campaign, raising almost $350K in just 30 days. With that…

Near the end of November, Google announced a large price cut for their cloud storage service. Two days later, Amazon countered with a price drop of their own. Not to be outdone, Google announced yet another price cut the next day. Microsoft decided they wanted in on the action a week later.

Several major internet sites have had a hard time staying online lately. Yesterday, Twitter went down. This was due to an “infrastructural double whammy” — two data centers that operate in parallel for redundancy both failed. This was the second outage in about six weeks for…