Author Archives: Maria Spínola

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Futurist - Researcher - Strategic IT Marketing And Innovation Adviser - White Paper Copywriter http://www.twitter.com/MariaSpinola

Cloud Computing Views: Week 20 to 26 July 2009

This list is a summary of Cloud Computing news that I posted during the past week on Twitter Continue reading

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White Paper: An Essential Guide to Possibilities and Risks of Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is quite possibly the hottest, most discussed and often misunderstood concept in Information Technology (IT) today.

In short, Cloud Computing proposes to transform the way IT it’s deployed and managed, promising reduced implementation, maintenance costs and complexity, while accelerating innovation, providing faster timeto-market, and the ability to scale high-performance applications and infrastructures on demand, but…

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Cloud Computing Briefings about Research, Companies, Key Players and Platforms

Cloud Computing Briefings about Research, Companies, Key Players and Platforms Continue reading

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IBM Cloud Computing Use Cases Group Releases Draft White Paper

The first draft of IBM Cloud Computing Use Cases Group White Paper Continue reading

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The Day the Cloud Died

This may sound “bizarre”, but it actually has to do with real death’s … Continue reading

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In your opinion, it’s positive or negative to know where Google Data Centers are located?

In the last days, some news were released about the location of Google Data Centers, like for example the Google container data center tour video and the Revealed: where Google’s data centres are around the world article Continue reading

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Cloud Computing: The “low cost” arrived to IT business?

The low cost products and services are here, either at supermarkets, airlines, holidays, automobiles, hotels, food-chains, etc., and we use them because, sometimes, we really don’t need all the features of the non low cost products and services. In my … Continue reading

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