Category Archives: Technical

Is the Cloud as the vendors are claiming?

IT news from Australia is presenting a work made by the UNSW School of Computer Science. In this study they try to verify if the Cloud is as the Vendors are claiming that it is: elastic, reliable, dynamic, fault tolerant, … 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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Google Chrome OS – more thoughts about it

I have to admit that this type of short post could transmit the idea of a follow-the-hype initiative, but that was not the intention. So following some feedback on the Google Groups I’ve decided to clarify some of my initial … Continue reading

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Google Chrome OS – The so expected and speculated (Cloud) OS

A couple of months ago I have written a short post about how amazing the new Palm WEB OS is and how their engineers (marketeers, developers, etc ) have captured so well the essence of the Cloud Computing Paradigm (http://www.cloudviews.org/2009/01/squeeze-the-cloud-to-fit-into-your-hand/). … Continue reading

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Increasing the control over the Cloud – Reducing the EDoS danger

As it has been discussed in the Cloud Computing Google Group (Cloud Forum), the Cloud Computing paradigm has an ever growing underlying attachment. As I’m sure you can guess, I’m talking about the security threats that have emerged, one of … Continue reading

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Amazon Elastic MapReduce – The power of the Grid and the elasticity of the Cloud

Amazon has recently introduced its Elastic MapReduce service. With it users will have the power of the Grid Computing together with the elasticity of the Cloud Computing paradigm. Having access to computing power able to perform data-intensive tasks like financial … Continue reading

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Cloud Gaming, would it be possible? – I believe it will!

In a recent post, JC Fletcher talks about the service promoted by onlive.com gaming platform. In this post he talks about some subjects on which the Cloud Gaming could have problems, namely the video encoding process and the latency on … Continue reading

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