Monthly Archives: February 2009

Can he live in the cloud for more than one week?

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Don’t know about you guys, but I’m looking forward to see what Christopher Dawson will write after he spends one week living in the cloud and if he will remain in the cloud or return to his normal e-mail client and word documents saved in his hard drive. This is an interesting experience because he will tell us, from his experience, if the online scaled down versions of software like Office and others are sufficient (and maybe even better) for most documents we write.

Dark clouds in the sky Tuesday morning – Gmail outage

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Apparently the Gmail outage was due to a problem in their code.  Accordingly to  Gmail official blog,  the code that tries to keep data geographically close to its owner, was unable to deal with a routine maintenance in one of  Google European datacenters.

We easily accept that this kind of code can be very complex, and also, that could be very difficult to track its bugs.  Nevertheless, I think that problems like this one, and also the one that occurred  last month, can  be damaging to the Cloud’s reputation. So, it’s important that Cloud techs work hard to reduced these situations as  much as possible.

We must also continue the work in technologies like Gears or HTML5. If I had activated the off-line support on Gmail, released by Google last month,  I would’ve been able to continue accessing my emails. Consequently, problems like this one wouldn’t be so important.

Zoho CloudSQL: Access Business Data in the Cloud Through SQL

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Zoho CloudSQL is a technology that allows developers to interact with business data stored across Zoho Services using the familiar SQL language. In addition, JDBC and ODBC database drivers make writing code a snap – just use the language construct and syntax you would use with a local database instance. Using the latest Web technology no longer requires throwing away years of coding and learning.

Benefits

Zoho CloudSQL allows businesses to connect and integrate the data and applications they have in Zoho with the data and applications they have in house, or even with other SaaS services. Unlike other methods for accessing data in the cloud, CloudSQL capitalizes on enterprise developers’ years of knowledge and experience with the widely-used SQL language. This leads to faster deployments and easier (read: less expensive) integration projects.

cloudsql.wiki.zoho.com