There have been a few major updates this week, a sizable portion of which emerged from the Node Summit gathering in San Francisco.  SiliconANGLE has been attending and covering the gathering extensively across our different channels, including the newly launched DevOpsAngle. We’ve also been reviewing other news from the cloud ecosystem, and the following rundown sums up some of the most interesting developments that popped up throughout the week.

SoundCloud 10 million strong

The first highlight comes from SoundCloud, a German music streaming startup that recently announced it now has over 10 million users worldwide. The update is notable from several angles: it’s yet another indicator of the growing chunk of web traffic media content is accounting for, and, provides a new point of view on the SOPA/PIPA buzz, which will soon be reaching its climax. It’s also very good news for the company.

AWS opens the cloud gates

Over in the PaaS space, Amazon has come up with yet another way to take over the cloud market. Cloud Gateway is the newest AWS offering, and hooks up on-premise apps with Amazon storage, providing it a very good way of tapping companies running legacy IT environments. For now however, the traditional storage market is doing just fine.

EMC, VMware are killing it

EMC’s latest earnings call revealed a lot of growth for the storage behemoth, indicating among other things that its cloud strategy has been living up to expectations. It’s also a sign that IT spending is not on the decline just yet, something that both Oracle and Juniper Networks suggested.

VMware in turn has also seen quite a bit of growth. The virtualization provider plans on fastening its pace, and the first step in this quarter was the launch of the VMware Solution Exchange. The online catalog has the potential of giving the company’s ecosystem – both partners and customers – a big boost.