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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…
Posted in Basic Views, CloudViews, IT Departments, Interoperability, News, Technical
Tagged ASP, Cloud Computing, IaaS, IT Departments, PaaS, SaaS, Security, White Paper
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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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Tagged Cloud Computing, Companies, Key Players, Platforms, Research
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The CloudOS’s
I never truly believed that true cloud OS could “appear” and specially be truly usable. Jolicloud was already mentioned here (although I do not consider it a true cloud OS), but what make me a believer was g.ho.st and specially … Continue reading
“Give me some confidence” …
For the majority of companies, the possibility of buying computational power, disk storage, collaboration, application development resources, programs, etc. on demand is very compelling. After all we can say that Cloud Computing is: No Hardware, No Software, Don’t Hire No One …
But until the major Cloud Computing providers don’t have clear answers, to the legitimate questions entreprises have about security, scalability, performance, availability, reliability, etc.
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Cloud computing: changing the way we work
Quoting an article in the ACM TechNews, Monday, April 20, 2009, bulletin: «Cloud computing has the potential to create irreversible changes in how computers are used around the world, says David Carrera, director of the Cloud Computing (CC) research team … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud, computing, upc
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EaaS: Everything as a Service – The next big buzzword?
When we try to use or promote technologies or technological paradigms we must start by digging up all the information about it. This is almost mandatory and it’s the basis of all the work done by the majority of us. … Continue reading
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Tagged Grid Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Ubiquity Computing
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Can we trust the Cloud?
In his article about the risks to privacy, presented by the Cloud Computing paradigm, Saul Hansell ends it with this quote: “Don’t put anything in the cloud you wouldn’t want a competitor, your government or another government to see”
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