List of All the IaaS from Amazon Web Services(AWS) Cloud Computing

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List of All Amazon Web Service Cloud OfferingsAmazon has pioneered Cloud computing by bringing infrastructure-as-a-service on a global scale to emerging start-ups, corporate enterprises and the public sector. Historically, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provided application developers with access to an innovative IT infrastructure platform on an as needed (or for rent) basis. Amazon’s offerings have expanded in both the infrastructure-as-a-service (Amazon Cloud Compute or EC2) and platform-as-a-service (more value-added applications/features) categories.

For a new project that we’ve undertaken we are going to use Amazon Cloud Offering and during the feasibility research we listed all the IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) offered by Amazon Web Services for Scalable Cloud Computing and here we are sharing the same with our readers as

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Impact of Internet Advertising on Agencies / Other Industries

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Impact of Digital Advertising on Other IndustriesWe previously discussed on How Internet Advertising has Disrupted Traditional Marketing channels such as Paper / TV / Radio. Today, we’ll highlight the impact of Digital A&M on Agencies and other industries.

Impact on Media Owners
The move to online significantly lowers the barriers of entry for new potential competitors. Clearly, the most famous examples involve exciting tech-based start-ups — the Google’s, Facebook’s, Netflix’s of this world. We would also argue that the move by selected larger media conglomerates to own media channels in international markets (e.g. Discovery with Eurosport/SBS) is also perhaps a symptom of the same trend.

This is not a challenge for 100% ad funded media companies, but it is for those media companies that enjoy a dual stream of monetization in an analogue world, (e.g. print newspapers/magazines). For example, a regional newspaper may be able to defend a regional classified model online – this has

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How Digital Advertising & Marketing Disrupted Print / TV & Set to Overtake Offline Budgets ?

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Digital Marketing Advertising Distupting Older ModelsAs the Internet goes mainstream and customers spend more and more time online, marketing dollars continue to migrate to digital channels. This trend is not new and from the earliest days of the commercial Internet, unsophisticated banner ads and then search advertising gained traction and turned into large markets. Over time, Internet Advertising began to cannibalize offline marketing spend in areas such as print, radio, TV and other mediums, although offline marketing continues to dominate the marketing budget and digital channels make up well less than 50% of marketing and advertising spend.

As we look forward, we see a landscape that will ultimately drive digital marketing to be the primary channel, indeed in some countries in Europe and Asia, this is already the case where various

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Why Apple Wants to BUY Beats Electronics / Music ?

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Why Apple wants to BUy BeatsSilicon Valley Innovator Apple Inc is reportedly in talks to acquire Beats Electronics LLC for a potential price of $3.2 billion. Beats is a leading provider of high-end headphones, portable speakers, and subscription-based digital music services. If this deal were to occur at the price reported in the press, it would represent Apple’s largest acquisition to date.

In July 2012 Beats bought MOG, which is viewed in the industry as very valuable, and introduced Beats Music streaming in Jan. While we estimate that current subs are only ~500K, the service reviews have been pretty good. We think if it is preloaded on iPhones that it can solve the low subscriber part of

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Where has SaaS Succeeded ? Where Saas Needs Effort to Move to Cloud?

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SaaS on Cloud SuccessToday, every company is a software company (recent Forbes article) and software is eating the world (entrepreneur Mark Andreessen). The demand for software applications is being driven by the business owners [BO], who historically relied on their internal IT departments who have often failed to deliver on software development projects in a timely or satisfactory manner. These Business owners were first to latch onto SaaS. SaaS not only takes advantage of the ubiquitous web-based client, but is run as a service by the vendor, enabling customers to immediately have access to new capabilities with little up-front investment . These benefits, among others, have enabled SaaS as a category to take share from traditional on-premise software. This ability of SaaS applications to keep up with the requirements of faster-moving business owners have parallels to drivers of cloud infrastructure adoption including agile development.

The ownership of software development is driving

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What is Korea’s Mobile Handset Distribution Act ?

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Kora Handset Distribution ActIN Korea, the Handset Distribution Act is scheduled to be implemented from Oct 1. Basically, the Act aims to prevent discrepancies in handset prices for end-users. Same handsets could have different pricing largely due to the subsidies provided by telcos and handset makers. With this Act, telcos and handset makers will have to provide the regulators with the handset subsidy amount, which will prevent telcos and handset makers providing illegal subsidies.

We view the Act will be a positive for the overall telco sector in that the telcos will not be able to engage in cut-throat subsidy competition. However, in relative terms, we expect SKT to have more to

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Telenor India / Uninor has 16% 2G Data Subscribers

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Uninor India GrowsUninor, the Indian Subsidiary of Telenor is witnessing promising trends in data growth and is now focused on growing data usage. Currently, nearly 16% of its subscribers are active data users, and it plans to continue offering data on the 2G platform as 3G data usage is limited in India.

Telenor India reported revenue of INR 9.3bn, up 8.7% QoQ, led by healthy 13.6% traffic growth on the back of 2.5 mn subscriber additions and a 4.8% MOU increase. MOU has grown 50% over the past 10 quarters, driven by a 27% price cut during the same period. Thus, the company’s strategy has been to drive traffic and improve capacity utilization by undercutting

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Which Game Users Pay & Their Platform Breakup ?

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China Gaming ReportTencent today published a report profiling the attributes of paying gamers within the China gaming market. According to the report, client-based games have the highest payment penetration ratio (14.9%), followed by web games (4.8%) and mobile games (2.9%). Male players accounted for the dominant portion of the total paying gaming users, with 78.5%, 76.3% and 85.9% for mobile games, web games and client-based games, respectively. Paying users are mainly young people, with approximately 65% of total paying players being between 15 and 30 years old. Users who have a high school

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Will Internet Economics in US Shift from Content Aggregrators to Carriers ?

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US FTTH RolloutToday, most US households have access to one or two wireline broadband providers. This suggests owners of last-mile infrastructure enjoy a favorable competitive position other segments of the video value chain. However, there are four potential rival technologies that could upset the status quo: 1) Fiber-to-the-home (Google), 2) Next Generation Satellite (EchoStar/ViaSat), 3) Fixed Wireless (Dish Network) and 4) Next Generation Wireless (Sprint). In this note, we explore FTTH economics. Verizon FiOS has built fiber to about 15% of US households. In these markets a new FTTH builder would likely achieve 33%

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Baidu Controls 72% of Chinese Search Market

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Baidu Search MarketBaidu’s recent development in search maintains solid growth. According to iResearch, PC + Mobile search captured 72% of the overall market. Mobile search underpins the growth of overall search with 160mn DAU (daily active users) in 1Q vs. 130mn two quarters ago. New functions have been integrated into the mobile search home page to provide users a more seamless experience. Customized vertical results on healthcare, eCommerce and education are now available on both PC and mobile. In terms of monetization, Baidu introduced a new bidding system that can target users in specific cities to generate higher ROI. Management expects mobile revenue to surpass PC later this year.

Baidu will continue its investment in five

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