Surya's Tumblr

#SuryaRay #Surya Security and caching service CloudFlare has been down for more than 50 minutes due to a DNS issue. As the service adds a layer between 785,000 websites and their users, all of those websites are currently affected — 4chan is one of them. CloudFlare generates so many pageviews that it would be the tenth website in the world. Its downtime shows developers that relying on a third-party service is not without any consequence. Developing… http://dlvr.it/31zdwJ @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya SiSense won the Audience Award at the Strata Conference this week with its record-breaking claim that it can analyze 10 terabytes of data on a $10,000 Dell server in 10 seconds. Records are meant to be broken, so this is not the first or the last claim of superiority we will see from an ambitious startup. http://dlvr.it/31ThWk @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya Amazon Web Services has once again dropped its pricing. This time the decrease is for two of its services:  Simple Queue Service (SQS) and the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). According to AWS, SQS offers a scalable, hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers. Developers can  move data between distributed components of their applications that perform different tasks without losing messages or requiring each component to be always available. Amazon SQS is designed to make it easy to build an automated workflow, working in close conjunction with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and the other AWS infrastructure web services. http://dlvr.it/31Swt3 @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya tc_5min code=”517684909”] At the Strata Conference this week, Marck Vaisman, a freelance data scientist, talked with us about the five commandments of data, a set of principles he has developed and written about in a book by O’Reilly Publishing called “The Bad Data Handbook.” http://dlvr.it/31Swsc @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya With big data playing an increasingly critical role in healthcare and with the pervasiveness of archaic infrastructure and lack of data portability in health systems and hospitals, data warehousing startup Health Catalyst sees a big opportunity to help fix this problem. And, at least for now, investors appear eager to buy in. In January, the startup raised a whopping $33 million in series B financing from Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Sequoia Capital and Sorenson Capital. http://dlvr.it/31Hhbj @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya [tc_5min code=”517684965”] The big systems companies are starting to put pressure on the startups in the growing field of data analytics. But the pressure is not as much related to innovation as it is to using their marketing muscle to build software stacks they can sell to retain existing customers. http://dlvr.it/31BmNg @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya Drew Houston, the CEO of Dropbox, said that staying independent was a key part of Dropbox’s strategy; and with mobile being the most important platform for picking up new users, Dropbox was looking for more handset makers and carriers for partnerships along the lines of the one it has with Samsung, as he described his cloud storage company as being in its “Apple 2 phase.” http://dlvr.it/31036V @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya Codenvy (formerly Exo IDE), a cloud environment for coding, building, and testing apps, today announced it has closed $9 million in Series A funding led by Toba Capital with Auriga Partners and a number of angel investors participating. http://dlvr.it/30lLcD @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya Salesforce.com is launching Service Cloud Mobile, a package of four new features, including mobile co-browsing, in-line community support for game apps and a mobile chat capability. A fourth feature, designed specifically for customer service reps, allows agents to use mobile devices to give personalized support by connecting internally to get questions answered through a lightweight activity stream experience. The new features are part of Salesforce.com Service Cloud and demonstrative of what executives say is the company’s plan to “double down” on mobile in 2013. http://dlvr.it/30fGxw @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya Visa is swiftly moving ahead announcing its first partners for its new NFC initiative and push into the wider world of mobile payments — two programs it announced a few days ago that come with a set of APIs to let third parties integrate the credit card giant’s payment services more seamlessly into their own. Visa has named Samsung as its first global NFC partner, and dongle maker Ingenico-owned ROAM as its first mobile payment partner for its Visa Ready program. http://dlvr.it/30W5jr @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya Appirio has launched a new partner program for connecting cloud apps through CloudSpokes, its 72,000 member developer community. Apps increasingly need to connect to offer a workflow that can appeal to an application’s user base. http://dlvr.it/30Vj7G @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya ownCloud is a free software suite, written in PHP, that provides file storage, synchronization, and sharing. It provides the same basic features of Dropbox or Box.net. It also provides a whole lot more. http://dlvr.it/30NZRP @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya Microsoft will refund Windows Azure customers impacted by an outage last week caused by an expired SSL certificate. In a brief blog post, General Manager Steven Martin cited the scope of the attack as the reason for refund. http://dlvr.it/30LjdB @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya Google Glass  is here but not quite here yet. What it will do to the way we live and work sometimes feels like a page out of an illustration of a man with a mechanical eye, who works according to a vision of what appears in the medium in the display he sees, entirely programmed by software. http://dlvr.it/30Khj3 @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya Y Combinator-backed Vimessa launched in late 2011 with a free video voicemail app for the iPhone that allowed users to send high-def video messages to any cell number or email address. The idea was to make video messaging work on any mobile device or desktop. But, despite the early buzz around the product, rules are rules: 90 percent of startups fail. http://dlvr.it/2zyx6G @suryaray