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EuroSaaS and Cloud Applications survey

Recently I found in LinkedIn a post in the SaaS University group from Rick Chapman where he was asking for help to spread the word for his EurosSaaS and Cloud Applications survey. We (EuroCloud Portugal) decided to help him not … Continue reading

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Cloud responsibilities

New applications developed under the all-in-one cloud umbrella (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) have several responsibilities that are often referred by IT specialists: They need to be more agile, create new markets and reach far more customers, help lowering Total cost … Continue reading

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Interesting Articles from this week

Interesting articles I’ve read this week: Cloud computing and the return of the platform wars: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=303&tag=nl.e539 How enterprise software giants separate you from more of your company’s money: http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/10/23/big-software-has-duped-us-for-decades-part-i/ SaaS Competitive Advantage – SaaS Economics 101 e-Book: http://chaotic-flow.com/2009/05/04/saas-competitive-advantage-saas-economics-101-e-book/ The emerging … Continue reading

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Cloud antivirus

Panda Security launch a Cloud Antivirus (in beta). Do check their blog. It has a video explaining how it works.

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Jolicloud – web operation system for netbooks

I’ve never been a fan of netbooks (the small keyboard always threw me off) but after seeing Nuno Godinho using one at the CloudViews conference I’ve started to get curious on these little fellows. Now I’m getting even more curious … Continue reading

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Cloud Computing Conference 2009

This conference was great and filled with interesting sessions showing different views about the cloud. Thanks Paulo for organizing it! It was your effort that made this conference a success!

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Mobile widgets

A Vodafone R&D Group (Betavine) launched a Widget Competition. The interesting think about this competition is that is launched by a global telecommunication operator and not by a mobile phone manufacture insuring a larger reach for the technology they are … Continue reading

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