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As cloud use grows, it becomes more and more difficult to track resources. Sure Amazon has its AWS Management Console, but this can only go so far – until now.

File Sharing and Sync (FSS) is a hot topic, and a technology many believe is best done in the cloud (although there are those that think on-premises is far safer and with files more accessible).
CodeLathe is in the former camp having just announced the release of FileCloud for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Vembu Technologies, which just released Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) for AWS, also has File Sharing and Collaboration aimed at businesses. Now the company is offering a free version of its Vembu FileShare, just as DropBox has a free low-end version.

Cloud Technology Partners, a firm that helps IT shops transition to the cloud and exploit services, now has $9.1 million more to play with. This is thanks to a new round of financing from Oak Investment Partners and the Pritzker Group. This brings total investment to some $14 million. The firm plans to use the new dough to buttress its delivery, marketing and sales.

Everyone knows the cloud is on the move – but AWS vendor Cloud Cruiser wanted to know just how much IT is mixing the public cloud with private.

Despite that fact that myriad third parties have tools for backup and archiving, Amazon itself pushes its own solution – Glacier. This storage service is primarily aimed at backup and archiving, not for frequent access.

The beauty of the cloud is its ability to scale. But this is often easier said than done. Unless you’ve paid for gobs of excess capacity and have a way to automatically exploit it, scaling up can still take work.

Amazon is trying to kick start AWS use with a free 12 month trial, the AWS Free Tier, but the AWS owner is not the only vendor with this goal.

Amazon AWS has a ton of third party support in broad categories such as storage and performance. But it also has a burgeoning base of supporters who bring vertical expertise and solutions to the AWS platform.