Posts Tagged with ‘cloud-computing’

It is invariably entertaining to watch Microsoft trying to ensure some online presence for itself when all such attempts look mostly like the company is the last to realize internet is actually a serious business and decides to do something to catch up when others are already heavily competing in the field.
The current Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles is a great example of this trend with yesterday’s presentation of Windows Azure, the attempt to get to the cloud [...]

Earlier today at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Microsoft has provided details on what we should expect from its promised cloud operating system.
The offer that was revealed today was initially referred to as Red Dog or Windows Strata or Windows Cloud at different times. Today we know the real name and it is Azure. The community technology preview of the new platform is already available to developers while the commercial version of the new operating system will not be available [...]

Well, not exactly Windows as we know it now, it is something dubbed “Windows Cloud” (will most certainly have a different name) - a new operating system to be officially announced by Microsoft in the end of October that is intended to serve as a platform for various web applications. Microsoft seemingly takes the approach it already is familiar with by offering an OS other developers should write applications for instead of writing applications of its own and competing with [...]

There’s a very thought-provoking article in the Guardian today about the dangers of cloud computing that resulted in quite an animated discussion in the blogosphere making people forget the tech companies stock valuations for a moment and try to figure out if we are really locking ourselves up in a trap of the much-hyped cloud computing.
True, cloud computing is obviously one of the most hyped terms these days and everyone thinks it is kind of hip and cool to rely [...]

As you may remember, LongJump is a platform as a service provider that allows a business to run a whole suite of enterprise office and business applications on the platform to bring their marketing/sales/customer service processes completely online with the most distributed teams producing coordinated results in all the aspects of a business operation. The online applications running on LongJump platform are seamlessly integrated with traditional desktop office applications so that all the information a business stores in LongJump suite [...]

The speculations about what HP, Intel and Yahoo are supposed to announce this morning started after a post on Techcrunch yesterday inviting the readers to guess what the announcement will be. It was obvious that it will be some research initiative for processing of large volumes of information but of course we could only guess.
Now we have the clarity - the three giants will be working on a joint initiative to research the potential of cloud computing. The [...]

First came the Tweets: is such-and-such down? Can anyone else get into Google App Engine? Then came the blog posts and the endless discussion of "giving up your app to the cloud."
The simple fact is that web sites will go down. All web sites will fail to work at some point, because 100% uptime just doesn't exist. Software will be buggy. Hardware will fail. And the best anyone can hope for is that the site is large enough and [...]

In a rare case of actual advance financial planning on the web, Google has announced the price structure for its Google App Engine offering.  Granted Google is not necessarily the best example of financial planning in an online company, since they are all about the Benjamins with their AdWords, AdSense and other monetization strategies. It's just that it is so rare to see any company with a business plan online it stands out when it happens, like Sasquatch sightings.
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Cloud computing is one of the latest buzzwords to circulate through social media circles. Cloud computing could be the key to a true global society and economic growth, but international politics is holding it back. Defining cloud computing to someone who doesn't live and breathe the heady air of the Web 2.0 bubble can be difficult. Explaining why it is affected by international borders and political issues demands an understanding of what cloud computing is.
Cloud computing is [...]