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  1. Amazon EC2 introduces new Cluster Compute Instance cc1.4xlarge - 33.5 ECUs (2xNehalem X5570), 10G network, US East only http://bit.ly/cHkoI6
  2. New @GoGrid US East data center added to cloud speedtest and monitoring http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest http://cloudharmony.com/status
  3. RT @GoGrid: PR: GoGrid Continues Expansion with New East Coast Data Center http://tinyurl.com/2aq4v6t
  4. New blog post: Cloud Server Benchmarking Part 5: Encoding & Encryption http://bit.ly/cF2pBD
  5. RT @TTintheCloud: Another set of #cloudcomputing benchmarks from @cloudharmony hit the 'net - http://bit.ly/cIXwW9
  6. InfoWorld: Confessions of a cloud skeptic: Cloud has gotten way more attention than it deserves. Has the hype peaked? http://bit.ly/cLgYAJ
  7. New blog post - Cloud Server Benchmarking Part 4: Memory IO http://bit.ly/c4vVUi
  8. IBM announces sunset of free IBM Development & Test Cloud Beta and new pricing:0.17/hr for 2GB Suse (Suse or RHEL only) http://bit.ly/cJL1L4
  9. Podcast Interview with @randybias, CEO of cloudscaling - good insight on the status of cloud computing #IaaS #PaaS http://bit.ly/99oriW
  10. Accounting SaaS Quickbooks Online down for 20 hours and counting (along with most other Intuit websites) http://bit.ly/cWoE7M
  11. Linode increases ram by 42% on all node sizes http://bit.ly/aGiHgw
  12. New CloudWatch Metrics for EC2 EBS Volumes (e.g. read/write volume) http://bit.ly/asUXBY
  13. RT @eekygeeky: The first comprehensive, vendor-neutral #cloudcomputing benchmarks are in the wild. read more: http://j.mp/a0Gov5
  14. Added graphs to cloud server performance blog post #2: Disk IO Benchmarking in the Cloud http://bit.ly/cO1Hl7
  15. Added graphs to cloud server performance blog post #1: What is an ECU? CPU Benchmarking in the Cloud http://bit.ly/9MvSxp
  16. @HawkHost Cloud Server Benchmarking Part 3: Java, Ruby, Python & PHP blog post has been updated to include graphs http://bit.ly/ckixzs
  17. New cloud server performance blog post: Cloud Server Benchmarking Part 3: Java, Ruby, Python & PHP http://bit.ly/ckixzs
  18. AppEngine outage? We observed a 2.8hr undocumented outage at 21:11PDT (6/11) w/503 Service Unavailable HTTP response http://bit.ly/aTlLtD
  19. Got our Google Storage account today! Ran some network tests & wrote a blog post: Google Storage, a CDN/Storage Hybrid? http://bit.ly/9ZKbSf
  20. Amazon adds API for interaction with S3 Import/Export (import/export files to/from S3 by sending Amazon a USB drive) http://bit.ly/dpkbG5