{"id":649746,"date":"2013-03-31T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=625804"},"modified":"2013-03-31T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T15:00:33","slug":"the-week-in-cloud-aws-goes-mobile-google-vows-patent-pledge-cloud-wars-rage-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649746","title":{"rendered":"The week in cloud: AWS goes mobile; Google vows patent pledge; cloud wars rage on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon mobilizes<\/h2>\n

\"android-phones\"<\/a>Amazon Web Services, which has focused a ton of resources on wooing enterprise developers with higher end services is apparently staffing up a broader mobile development effort as well, as evidenced by job posts signaling the creation of a new group<\/a> to be based in Palo Alto, Calif.<\/p>\n

The new group appears to be dedicated to building client-side functionality \u2014 but observers say it\u2019s likely that it will do more than that. Most developers access their AWS goodies from their PCs, but we\u2019ve seen more users of all types supplementing or even replacing their laptop and desktop PCs with smartphones and tablets so it makes sense for Amazon to respond to that trend. (It already lets folks access the AWS management console with\u00a0Android<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>iOS devices.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

And, as GigaOM PRO\u00a0analyst Janakiram MSV had already\u00a0noted in a post<\/a>\u00a0(subscription required) last month, \u00a0AW<\/span>S\u00a0<\/span>already offers many of the building blocks\u2013 Amazon EC2, S3, DynamoDB, and RDS \u2013\u00a0needed to expose mobile backend services. And its Android and iOS software development kits (SDKs) make it easy for developers to consume these services, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Google inks patent non-aggression pact<\/h2>\n

\"Google<\/a>In hopes of staving off the sort of patent litigation that has embroiled the mobile phone market, Google last week unveiled a sort of nonagression pact \u2013 a patent pledge<\/a>\u00a0under which it says developers \u00a0can\u00a0use or sell the technology described in the patents without fear of future lawsuits, as GigaOM\u2019s\u00a0Jeff Roberts reported. The pledge includes a\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>controversial patent issued last year<\/a>\u00a0that covers a form of parallel processing known as MapReduce. That particular patent provoked concern that Google could monopolize tools\u00a0<\/span>like Hadoop<\/a>, which is an integral part of the \u201cbig data\u201d revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n

PayPal caught in cross fire<\/h2>\n

\"dark<\/a>The notion that any large company will completely rip-and-replace one technology stack for another came under the microscope this week after reports <\/a>surfaced that PayPal was doing just that \u2014 yanking out VMware technology in favor of OpenStack. As it turns out, PayPal, a unit of eBay is building out a big project with OpenStack, with help from OpenStack integrator Mirantis, but stressed that it would also continue to use VMware<\/a> \u2014 whether that\u2019s vSphere and associated management tools; vCloud Director; or just VMware\u2019s hypervisor.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting that the clarification came via a VMware blog post by a VMware executive quoting a PayPal exec. Let\u2019s face it \u2014 companies rarely yank any technology that\u2019s working. They usually launch new projects with new technologies and keep running whatever works in tandem. But clearly these reports hit a nerve at a time when VMware is struggling to show that its new \u201chybrid public\u201d cloud strategy<\/a> has legs and when OpenStack appears to be gaining momentum as a cloud platform.<\/p>\n

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