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

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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 business managers know that in spite of the benefits of every new technology/business model there are also risks and issues (like for example: trust, loss of privacy, regulatory violation, data replication, coherency and erosion of integrity, application sprawl and dependencies, etc.) and that rushing things when it comes to Cloud Computing can be a very bad decision, but blowing off Cloud Computing all together because you think you can secure your own stuff better than a service provider or because many claims, made about Cloud Computing, have lead you to the point of “irrational exuberance” and unrealistic expectations, isn’t smart, either.

The goal of this White Paper is to provide a realistic perspective of the possibilities, benefits and risks of Cloud Computing; what to look for, what to avoid, and also some tips and best practices on implementation, architecture and vendor management strategies. It is important to consider all those aspects before you decide either to move (but without putting the carriage before the horse) or not to move your systems, applications, and/or data to to the “Cloud”, in a “hype free” approach.

Click here to download the White Paper (or click on the image at left side)

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EaaS: Everything as a Service – The next big buzzword?

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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. The information obtained must help create a clear and broad view about the new field of work. And consequently, the resulting view would help create solutions, products or promotional work.

This is fundamental and without it you won’t be able to create solutions with the most basic feature – interoperability. Without it, we (IT members, entrepreneurs, etc) will also loose the ability to vertically scale up our ideas in our company, or even to be successful when trying to obtain clients, financing, etc. Furthermore, we end up loosing the ability to talk with each other.
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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.

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The Internet command prompt and (maybe) the Internet clipboard

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With the Cloud Computing Paradigm, at least until recent developments, we have only worked with already existing technologies. Most of all, what Cloud Computing paradigm adds is the great feature of concentrating everything in a articulated and integrated way.

To be able to add real value to the Cloud Computing products and solutions we must innovate,  not only in the infrastructural technologies, but also in those who will have direct impact in user experience.  In the time being we already have interoperability technologies,  Identity Management and authorization platforms, great developing tools and deployment platforms, etc, etc.  And what about new functionalities, features that will add real value and will be able to create new kind of user experience? In a recent post Pedro has introduced interesting points about how the Cloud will expand or grow, but I think that we could start by simpler examples.
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