Steinberg Cubase 7

Steinberg Cubase has a long and storied history in the music industry, first appearing on the Atari ST more than two decades ago before migrating to Macs and PCs. The latest version, Cubase 7 ($499.99 direct), is a powerful, ultra-flexible recording environment. It's particularly well suited for MIDI composition with virtual synthesizers?and is, in our opinion, the smoothest of the major DAWs at this?although it's also a capable audio and post-production tool overall. Its new mixing console is exceptional; just plan on setting it up with a big monitor to get the most out of it.

System Requirements and Copy Protection
For this review, I tested Cubase 7.0.3 on a quad-core 2.93GHz Xeon Mac Pro running OS X 10.7.5 (Lion) and a quad-core MacBook Pro 15-inch running OS X 10.8.3 (Mountain Lion). I also personally own older versions of Cubase (up to version 4) and have had no trouble getting them all running on various machines over the years; Cubase tends to just work, in my experience, which is a good thing indeed.

Unlike Avid Pro Tools 10, Steinberg Cubase 7 is a full 64-bit app, which is a godsend when using plug-ins with large sample libraries. Another thing that's great about Cubase is its relative consistency when it comes to audio drivers (ASIO) and plug-ins (VST) over the years. This makes for easier compatibility with third-party hardware and software. As these are such widely used standards, you never have to wonder if you're using a particularly weird or untested combination.

Steinberg's copy protection scheme is more annoying than it needs to be. Cubase 7 uses a USB dongle, which automatically puts it at a disadvantage next to Cakewalk SONAR on the PC and Apple Logic Pro 9 on the Mac. Steinberg goes a step further, though, and uses eLicenser, which only works with Korg, reFX, and Arturia plug-ins. Most plug-ins requiring USB dongle protection, including industry-standard ones from Waves, EastWest, Avid, and iZotope, employ PACE iLok, a competing standard. If you buy Cubase 7 and plan on purchasing any major plug-ins, you'll end up with at least two USB keys, which isn't a situation you'll usually encounter when using other major sequencers. On a laptop with just two USB ports, such as with any MacBook Pro, it can be a huge annoyance?especially since many audio interfaces and other peripherals prohibit the use of a USB hub in their user manuals, and since moving the laptop with the dongle attached risks breakage each time.

Another downside: While you can buy SONAR and Logic Pro as online downloads, Cubase 7 requires a retail store or mail-order purchase?plus an optical drive in your machine. That rules out all recent Ultrabook PCs and MacBook Airs, at least without an external optical drive attached.

User Interface and Workflow
With all that out of the way, let's dive into the main program. Cubase 7's strong MIDI roots are evident right from the beginning. The Key Editor is simply wonderful. You can do just about anything during playback, including switching editing tools, deleting notes, and adjusting other notes. The Inspector offers transpose, quantize, length, and other useful tools that are easier to access here than in competing sequencers. A lane across the bottom makes it virtually instantaneous to edit volume or other MIDI control data. The floating Transport Bar is fully customizable; you can pop in or out individual modules as needed. The new harmony tool helps out with putting together chord progressions, which is a useful idea I bet other DAW manufacturers will soon copy.

By switching between cursor tools using the number keys, and by using Cubase's various shortcuts that make workflow more quickly, I find it easier to play in, lay down, edit, and arrange MIDI clips with Cubase more than any other DAW. Dedicated buttons let you turn scrolling during playback on and off, and even whether you want the view to stop scrolling when you start editing. Just about anything you can do to a note is intuitive.

Cubase 7's Score Editor is another winner, with enough notation tools that many people could get by with this program alone and not need a separate notation program. In addition to comprehensive symbol support, it also supports lyrics, drum notes, guitar tabs, and lead sheets, and can import and export XML files. The Drum Editor and List Editor also do their job well for editing rhythm and MIDI events, respectively, though the main Key Editor is so good that I rarely find myself bringing these windows up.

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Israel Film Festival: April 20-25 - Montreal Gazette

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Yariv Horowitz?s Rock the Casbah, about a group of Israeli soldiers caught in the middle of Gaza, opens the festival.

Photograph by: Israel Film Festival

MONTREAL -? ?I cannot tell you that I am a big fan of movies,? said Eran Bester. ?It?s just a coincidence that I found myself in this situation.?

Bester is founder and director of the Israel Film Festival (IFF), the ninth edition of which presents 10 recent films from the country, Saturday to Thursday. A resident of Tel Aviv, he had the idea for the event while working in Montreal a decade back.

?I lived here for a few years, representing an Israeli Bank in Montreal,? he said. ?I decided I would like to show Montrealers and Canadians a broader face of Israel than you see in the media. The media usually just talks about the conflict; but you cannot define Israel only by the conflict, just like you cannot summarize Montreal by its horrible winters.

?Israel is so much more than the conflict, and the best way to show that is through films. Cinema is a very good means to show how people live.?

Bester prides himself on the variety in the fest?s modest lineup. He hand-picks the films himself from the 30 or so movies released annually in Israel. And so, while there are films on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there are also films on other parts of day-to-day life in Israel.

?We have three films which deal with the conflict,? Bester said. ?Each one is from a very different angle. The first, which opens the festival Saturday night, is (Yariv Horowitz?s) Rock the Casbah, about a group of Israeli soldiers caught in the middle of Gaza.

?It?s not a war movie, but it?s about the relations between soldiers and civilians, and about the soldiers themselves. It?s a nice film, that shows the complexity of the situation. It?s not black-and-white, with good guys and bad guys. You find out that nobody is bad or good, but that the situation is impossible.?

Director Yariv Horowitz will be in town to present the film and answer questions following the screening.

Michael Mayer?s Out in the dark is a Romeo and, well, Romeo-styled gay love story between a Palestinian PhD student at a Tel Aviv University and an Israeli lawyer. Social norms on both sides are questioned as circumstances conspire to keep the two men apart.

Jonathan Segal?s Lipstikka tells of two Palestinian women living in London, who look back on their shared past ? specifically, a night in their teens when they crossed paths with a group of Israeli soldiers.

?They?re both from Ramallah, and each one remembers the story differently,? Bester said. ?Memory fools them, as they each have their own version of events.?

Shemi Zarhin?s The World is Funny was the No. 1 film at the box office in Israel last year. The episodic storyline features multiple narratives, which emerged as the result of a writer?s workshop in Tiberias. Another crowd-pleaser is Doran Eran?s hugely popular Melting Away, which Bester is bringing back after it became a hit at last year?s festival. It?s a story about a father who disowns his son after he finds him dressing in women?s clothes, and his wife?s attempt to track the boy down four years later.

The IFF boasts a few documentaries, two of which close the festival on Thursday evening, with representatives from each film on-hand for a discussion.

Tamar Tal?s Life in Stills follows the fight of a 96-year-old widow, with help from her grandson, to preserve the life?s work of her late husband, Rudi, a former state photographer. The building containing all his work ? including images of many of Israel?s defining moments ? is slated to be torn down to make way for a residential development project.

Dani Menkin and Yonatan Nir?s Dolphin Boy tells of a boy from an Arab village in Israel?s north who is traumatized following a violent incident at school. Faced with sending him to a mental hospital, his father opts for an alternative treatment involving dolphins in Eilat.

?It?s a beautiful film about the power of nature to heal people,? Bester said. ?It?s very optimistic. I decided to finish the festival with an uplifting film.?

Both Toronto and Montreal editions of the IFF have had to find new venues, after Cineplex announced this year that it could not host the event. The Montreal edition will now be held at Guzzo?s Mega-Plex Sph?retech in Ville St. Laurent.

Montreal?s Israel Film Festival takes place Saturday to Thursday at Mega-Plex Sph?retech, 3500 C?te-Vertu Blvd. For tickets and scheduling information: 514-937-2332, israelfilmfestival.ca.

The Festival de films de l?environnement de Montr?al (FFEM) has bigger backing this year. Greenpeace has stepped on board as the official sponsor and will have representatives present most films, Saturday to Thursday at Cin?ma du Parc, 3575 Parc Ave.

Craig Scott Rosebraugh?s Greedy Lying Bastards opens the fest. As the title suggests, the documentary explores big business?s ongoing campaign to thwart political action on climate change.

Emma Goude?s In Transition 2.0 details the transition movement, travelling to communities around the world that have found innovative ways to make the world a better place, from printing their own money to growing vegetables anywhere and everywhere.

Naturopolis: New York, la r?volution verte, looks at attempts to reintroduce green space to the Big Apple.

For more information on the FFEM, visit cinemaduparc.com.

Peru sabe: la cocina, arma social. After screening as part of the Latin American Film Festival last weekend, Jesus M. Santos?s documentary Peru Sabe begins a run Friday at Cin?ma du Parc, 3575 Parc Ave.

Hosted by world famous Spanish Catalan chef Ferran Adria and Peruvian chef Gaston Acurio, the film examines the way Peruvian cuisine is sparking social change in the country. Buen provecho.

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China says investigating human-to-human spread of bird flu

By Sui-Lee Wee

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is investigating the possibility of human-to-human transmission of a new strain of bird flu that has killed 17 people and is examining "family clusters" of people infected with the virus, a top health official was quoted as saying.

Authorities have slaughtered thousands of birds and closed some live poultry markets to slow the rate of human infection. But many aspects of this new variety of bird flu remain a mystery, particularly whether the H7N9 strain is being transmitted between people.

China has warned that the number of infections, 82 so far, could rise. Most of the cases and 11 of the deaths have been in the commercial capital Shanghai.

Feng Zijian, the director of the health emergency center at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters on Wednesday that "we are paying close attention to these cases of family clusters.

"(We) are still analyzing in-depth to see which has the greatest possibility -- did it occur first from avian-to-human transmission, and then a human-to-human infection, whether they had a common history of exposure, were exposed to infected objects or whether it was caused by the environment," Feng said.

His comments were reported in a statement posted on the website of the National Health and Family Planning Commission.

One of the families that China is studying is made up of two brothers and their father who died of the virus, Feng said.

"This family cluster case still doesn't change our understanding of the characteristics of the disease in general -- that it is transmitted from birds to people and there's no evidence of human-to-human transmission," Feng said.

CONTACT WITH POULTRY

Efforts to determine the nature of the H7N9 virus are also hampered by a lack of accurate information from the victims on whether they have had contact with poultry, Feng said.

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that a number of people who have tested positive for the new strain appear to have had no contact with poultry.

The WHO had previously reported two suspected "family clusters", but the first turned out to be a false alarm and the second was inconclusive.

Zeng Guang, chief scientist in charge of epidemiology at the China Disease Prevention and Control Centre (CDPCC), said about 40 percent of human victims had no clear history of poultry exposure, the Beijing News reported.

Feng said that not all patients "can recall the history of exposure. Just like with the H5N1 avian influenza, 50 percent of the patients knew exactly their history of exposure, the other 50 percent can't recall it at all."

He was referring to a an especially virulent strain of bird flu that had raised the threat of a global pandemic in 2003.

Feng said that as most patients were in critical condition, the government was encountering delays in obtaining information about their exposure to poultry.

The WHO said a team of experts going to China soon would examine whether the virus can be spread between people, although there was "no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission".

The state-run China Daily newspaper, citing an unnamed source, said the team's talks with Chinese representatives would be held on Thursday. The experts would then visit affected areas.

(Editing by Ron Popeski)

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Haiti cholera mutations could lead to more severe disease

Public release date: 16-Apr-2013
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Strain is evolving to be more like virulent 1800s cholera

CHICAGO --- The cholera strain that transferred to Haiti in 2010 has multiple toxin gene mutations that may account for the severity of disease and is evolving to be more like an 1800s version of cholera, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.

The strain, "altered El Tor," which emerged around 2000, is known to be more virulent and to cause more severe diarrhea and dehydration than earlier strains that had been circulating since the 1960s. This study reports the altered El Tor strain has acquired two additional signature mutations during the past decade that may further increase virulence.

In addition, these newly discovered signature mutations documented in the study further link the Haitian cholera epidemic to the strain from Nepal.

The paper will be published April 16 in the journal mBio.

The new Northwestern study suggests the strain with multi-signature toxin gene mutations may trigger a unique pattern of infection accounting for the severity of disease noted during the Haiti cholera outbreak.

"The cholera strain from the 1800s epidemic did the same thing," said Karla Satchell, the senior author of the paper and an associate professor of microbiology-immunology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "That strain also modified its toxin genes and the cholera got worse."

Satchell has spent her career studying a single toxin of the bacterium that causes cholera, MARTX, which helps the bacteria block the body's immune defense so cholera can colonize the gut. She closely followed genomics research conducted to track the Haiti epidemic, curious to see how her toxin was affected. She was shocked to see it had completely mutated out of existence.

"Oh, my!" she recalls thinking. "My toxin has been booted out of this key strain." She postulates that this may have affected the behavior of the mutated strain in disease.

Satchell and colleagues analyzed publicly available genomic sequencing data and found this new cholera strain had accumulated some curious genetic changes during its global spread. First, the main cholera toxin that causes the diarrhea acquired genetic changes that converted the toxin to a form similar to that produced by strains prevalent during the historic cholera epidemics of the 1800s.

Surprisingly, this new strain next acquired a genetic lesion that inactivated the MARTX toxin, previously recognized to be important for evading the immune system. A third as yet uncharacterized genetic mutation in the cholera toxin followed, suggesting a mutation emerged in the cholera toxin to compensate for the loss of MARTX.

These mutations occurring in the same strain indicate that the bacterium interacts differently with the immune system than previous strains.

"Perhaps this results in the bacterium more successfully evading early detection after a person accidently drinks cholera infected fluids," Satchell said. "Interestingly, these multiple mutations in important proteins that specifically contribute to disease could explain why this strain is causing more severe disease, although the contribution of each mutation to human infection remains to be studied."

Previously published research on the Haiti cholera strain noted the change in the bacterium's DNA and tracked its origin to Nepal, but scientists didn't ask how the changes affected the bacterium's function. In addition, scientists had believed the bacterial strains responsible for the "new wave" of cholera that engulfed Haiti and first began spreading in 2000 were functionally identical to most other strains prevalent in the environment.

Satchell's finding further confirms the strain infecting Haiti likely originated in Nepal, consistent with the conclusion from the whole genome analysis and public health studies. Strains with this unique signature of a cholera toxin with three genetic changes coupled with loss of MARTX has spread only in a very defined geographical area including India where it was first detected in 2007. It has spread through Bangladesh, Cameroon, Nepal and then into Haiti and the Dominican Republic in 2010. Even though other strains are nearly identical and barely distinguishable at the genetic level, only this very small group of isolates share this unique signature, verifying from a functional viewpoint that the strain that moved to Haiti likely originated in Nepal.

"What we discovered is that the bacterial strains responsible for the 'new wave' of cholera are not all functionally identical with minor modification as previously thought, nor are they similar to most other strains prevalent in the environment, but, in fact, the strain with multi-signature toxin gene mutations may instigate a unique pattern of infection accounting for the severity of disease noted during the Haiti cholera outbreak," Satchell said.

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Strain is evolving to be more like virulent 1800s cholera

CHICAGO --- The cholera strain that transferred to Haiti in 2010 has multiple toxin gene mutations that may account for the severity of disease and is evolving to be more like an 1800s version of cholera, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.

The strain, "altered El Tor," which emerged around 2000, is known to be more virulent and to cause more severe diarrhea and dehydration than earlier strains that had been circulating since the 1960s. This study reports the altered El Tor strain has acquired two additional signature mutations during the past decade that may further increase virulence.

In addition, these newly discovered signature mutations documented in the study further link the Haitian cholera epidemic to the strain from Nepal.

The paper will be published April 16 in the journal mBio.

The new Northwestern study suggests the strain with multi-signature toxin gene mutations may trigger a unique pattern of infection accounting for the severity of disease noted during the Haiti cholera outbreak.

"The cholera strain from the 1800s epidemic did the same thing," said Karla Satchell, the senior author of the paper and an associate professor of microbiology-immunology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "That strain also modified its toxin genes and the cholera got worse."

Satchell has spent her career studying a single toxin of the bacterium that causes cholera, MARTX, which helps the bacteria block the body's immune defense so cholera can colonize the gut. She closely followed genomics research conducted to track the Haiti epidemic, curious to see how her toxin was affected. She was shocked to see it had completely mutated out of existence.

"Oh, my!" she recalls thinking. "My toxin has been booted out of this key strain." She postulates that this may have affected the behavior of the mutated strain in disease.

Satchell and colleagues analyzed publicly available genomic sequencing data and found this new cholera strain had accumulated some curious genetic changes during its global spread. First, the main cholera toxin that causes the diarrhea acquired genetic changes that converted the toxin to a form similar to that produced by strains prevalent during the historic cholera epidemics of the 1800s.

Surprisingly, this new strain next acquired a genetic lesion that inactivated the MARTX toxin, previously recognized to be important for evading the immune system. A third as yet uncharacterized genetic mutation in the cholera toxin followed, suggesting a mutation emerged in the cholera toxin to compensate for the loss of MARTX.

These mutations occurring in the same strain indicate that the bacterium interacts differently with the immune system than previous strains.

"Perhaps this results in the bacterium more successfully evading early detection after a person accidently drinks cholera infected fluids," Satchell said. "Interestingly, these multiple mutations in important proteins that specifically contribute to disease could explain why this strain is causing more severe disease, although the contribution of each mutation to human infection remains to be studied."

Previously published research on the Haiti cholera strain noted the change in the bacterium's DNA and tracked its origin to Nepal, but scientists didn't ask how the changes affected the bacterium's function. In addition, scientists had believed the bacterial strains responsible for the "new wave" of cholera that engulfed Haiti and first began spreading in 2000 were functionally identical to most other strains prevalent in the environment.

Satchell's finding further confirms the strain infecting Haiti likely originated in Nepal, consistent with the conclusion from the whole genome analysis and public health studies. Strains with this unique signature of a cholera toxin with three genetic changes coupled with loss of MARTX has spread only in a very defined geographical area including India where it was first detected in 2007. It has spread through Bangladesh, Cameroon, Nepal and then into Haiti and the Dominican Republic in 2010. Even though other strains are nearly identical and barely distinguishable at the genetic level, only this very small group of isolates share this unique signature, verifying from a functional viewpoint that the strain that moved to Haiti likely originated in Nepal.

"What we discovered is that the bacterial strains responsible for the 'new wave' of cholera are not all functionally identical with minor modification as previously thought, nor are they similar to most other strains prevalent in the environment, but, in fact, the strain with multi-signature toxin gene mutations may instigate a unique pattern of infection accounting for the severity of disease noted during the Haiti cholera outbreak," Satchell said.

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In Shell win, ruling limits jurisdiction in foreign rights cases

By Lawrence Hurley

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a closely watched ruling that left questions unanswered, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday that federal courts do not have jurisdiction to hear lawsuits against foreign corporations accused of aiding in human rights abuses abroad.

In one of the court's biggest human rights cases in years, the justices ruled unanimously that a federal court in New York could not hear claims made by 12 Nigerians who accused Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell Plc of complicity in a violent crackdown on protesters in Nigeria from 1992 to 1995.

The ruling immediately sparked another debate, not least in concurring opinions written by justices in response to Chief Justice John Roberts' majority opinion, about exactly what claims can still be made under the Alien Tort Statute. The 1789 law had been dormant for nearly two centuries before lawyers began using it in the 1980s to bring international human rights cases in courts.

What is clear is that the ruling is a major win for such non-U.S.-based multinational companies as Royal Dutch that do business in the developing world and become embroiled in local political controversies. Those companies, which are still subject to suit in foreign courts, fear U.S. courts because of the possibility of large damage awards.

The decision also means that U.S. corporations could find it easier to defend themselves against similar types of claims, although it could depend on the extent to which the alleged conduct was directed from the United States.

The ruling is likely to affect other cases, including those involving similar claims against Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Plc over its conduct in Papua New Guinea and against Exxon Mobil Corp over its activity in Indonesia.

Esther Kiobel, the named plaintiff in the Royal Dutch case and now a U.S. citizen, brought her lawsuit in 2002 on behalf of victims of the crackdown in Nigeria, including her husband, Barinem, who was executed in 1995.

Chief Justice Roberts in the majority opinion wrote that a presumption against extraterritorial application of federal laws applies to the Alien Tort Statute.

The court did not decide the question originally before it in the case: whether corporations can ever be liable under the statute.

DIFFERENCES OF OPINION

Although all nine justices concurred with the outcome, only four agreed with the chief justice's reasoning. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a separate opinion in which he was joined by three other justices.

"Nothing in the text of the statute suggests that Congress intended causes of action recognized under it to have extraterritorial reach," Roberts wrote.

He also said the ruling leaves open some lawsuits under the Alien Tort Statute, including against corporations, as long as there is a sufficient connection with the United States. The claims must have "sufficient force to displace the presumption" against extraterritorial application, he added.

Addressing liability of companies that are either based in the United States or have considerable interests there, Roberts said, "It would reach too far to say that mere corporate presence suffices."

Justice Anthony Kennedy and Justice Samuel Alito wrote separately in agreement with Roberts, with both making clear that the court had not resolved for good the question of under what circumstances individuals and corporations can be liable.

In his concurring opinion, Justice Breyer said he would not have applied the presumption against extraterritoriality. Regardless, he said, in the Shell case, "The parties and relevant conduct lack sufficient ties to the United States."

Sandy Weisburst, one of Royal Dutch's lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, said the ruling was a "vindication of Shell's primary position in this case." Future cases against other defendants would, he said, determine "when is there sufficient U.S. conduct" to give U.S. court's jurisdiction.

Paul Hoffman, the lawyer representing the plaintiffs, said it "seems pretty clear" that corporations are covered by the statute and "there will be corporate cases in the future" in some circumstances.

Marco Simons, a lawyer with Earthrights International who represents plaintiffs in human rights cases, said that although it was clear a presumption against extraterritorial application would now apply, the court is not "suggesting that no cases can be brought where abuses happened abroad."

He noted one of his group's own cases, against Chiquita Brand International, in which plaintiffs claim that the company made decisions in the United States about funding paramilitaries in Colombia, as a possible example of a claim that could go forward because there was a sufficient U.S. nexus.

That case is currently before the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. John Hall, a lawyer for Chiquita, declined to comment, saying he had not had a chance to review Wednesday's ruling.

Rio Tinto's appeal of a ruling in favor of the plaintiffs in the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is pending before the Supreme Court, as is a separate appeal from the same court brought by Daimler AG concerning alleged abuses in Argentina. In the Exxon case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held off on deciding whether to rehear it while the Shell case was pending.

The case is Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 10-1491.

(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley and Jonathan Stempel; Editing by Howard Goller, John Wallace, Steve Orlofsky and Cynthia Osterman)

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Investment Firm Expects AWS Will Hit $20 Billion In Revenues By 2020

Bernstein Research has issued a research report saying it expects AWS will have an estimated $20 billion in revenues by the end of the decade. In a separate report, RW Baird & Co.?projects $10 billion in revenue for AWS by 2016 and up to $40 billion in losses from the traditional IT market. The estimates reflect Wall Street’s growing confidence in cloud services and the need that analysts see in letting their customers know that a shift is underway that will lead to continued flat revenues or even losses for enterprise companies and systems integrators. In times of disruption, something like AWS may actually exceed investment analyst projections. Conversely, AWS success is not a certainty. Technologies may advance that will flatten AWS advantages or Amazon can’t scale the group’s services fast enough to keep its edge. These are the factors that investment research houses consider when making corporate financial projections. Overall, Baird and Bernstein cite a number of reasons that account for why AWS will do so well. The reasoning is sound but not without weaknesses, such as why AWS success will be harder to come by with large enterprises. A Turning Point The public cloud reached a turning point last year. As Baird states in its report, the top 10 cloud providers grew 37 percent while more traditional technology companies grew by 2 percent. AWS does not break out its revenues. Bernstein, based on its own research, estimates that AWS grew 100 percent year-over-year. Bernstein estimates AWS is worth $24 billion, 13 times its approximate $1.8 billion in revenue (Amazon does not break out revenues for AWS). ?In contrast, Bernstein reports that Rackspace, as of April 1, trades at about 5.3 times 2012 revenue. Its revenue grew 28 percent compared year-over-year. Its public cloud service revenues of $309 million account for 23 percent of total revenues. Rackspace, it should be noted, has aggressive expansion plans of its own and has been one of the founders of OpenStack, the open cloud effort. Developer interest has grown consistently in OpenStack since its unveiling. Google is a more concerning foe with Google Compute Engine and Google Apps. And Microsoft’s Windows Azure puts the company in position to compete in the cloud space. How The Market Breaks Down Enterprise Software: Baird Analyst Steve Ashley, quoted in the AWS report, “views client/server vendors like… SAP and BMC as most likely disintermediated, and SaaS companies

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Deal of the Day: Cruzerlite A2 TPU Case for Samsung Galaxy S3

The April 15 ShopAndroid.com Deal of the Day is the Cruzerlite A2 TPU Case for Samsung Galaxy S3. These flexible cases are made from a shock absorbent TPU that are slim-fitting and provide great protection against day to day use and drops. The back of each case features a print of Andy the Android and they're available in a variety of colors to choose from.

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