In the Know: 5 Cloud Stories to Review, Jan. 12

Written by CJ Arlotta
January 12, 2015

At the end of each day, Talkin' Cloud pulls out five must-read cloud computing stories from the news cycle for its readers to review in the morning. Today's column features Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Blue Box.

Talkin’ Cloud at the end of each day pulls out five must-read cloud computing stories from the news cycle for its readers to review in the morning. Today’s column features Google (GOOG), Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Blue Box.

Some of these stories have been gathered from Talkin’ Cloud’s article database, while others have been collected from elsewhere. If we missed something, feel free to leave a comment below. We might just add it into the mix.

Here’s today’s list of five cloud computing stories to know for today.

Google Cloud Trace Goes Into Beta. Google Cloud Trace, which was first announced at Google I/O back in June, is finally heading into its beta release. The new tool was designed to diagnose service performance bottlenecks to help ensure applications can run at optimal speed.

Amazon Releases New Encryption Options for RDS. Encryption isn’t always easy to deal with in the cloud (or in any other way, actually), but Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hoping to make encryption simpler for its customers. The company unveiled new encryption options for its Relational Database Service (RDS), enabling additional encryption options for a variety of database services for its customers.

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Friday’s Last Word: Blue Box CEO Matthew Schiltz. Blue Box CEO Matthew Schiltz became CEO of the Seattle-based private cloud as a service (PCaaS) company in May 2014. Blue Box Cloud, the company’s flagship solution, is a managed OpenStack private cloud offering on dedicated hardware available in multiple data centers. Blue Box this week completed a Series B round of financing, bringing the total funding of this round to $14 million. The company has raised a total of $23.1 million in funds since 2012.

Box has another go at IPO after cloud market sweetens. Cloud storage provider Box is taking another shot at its IPO. The updated S-1 filing outlines Box’s plans to sell 12.5 million shares at between $11 and $13 a share.

40 hours later, Verizon says its cloud is back. Verizon over the weekend did maintenance to its cloud to prevent stoppages from occuring in the future. The company says all future upgrades “will now hapen in the background with no impact to customers.”

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