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Is the Cloud as the vendors are claiming?

Posted on August 28, 2009 by pcalcada

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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Amazon introduces the AWS Private Cloud, and the question that arises is if this new service enables the deployment of real Private Cloud..

Posted on August 26, 2009 by pcalcada

Amazon has introduced today the new AWS Virtual Private Cloud service, more details on it could be found here: http://aws.amazon.com/vpc On the follow up of this new service, some doubts have arisen about the real type of the cloud built … Continue reading →

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

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Maria Spínola

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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IBM, Amazon and Microsoft in the clouds

Posted on February 17, 2009 by acc

Quoting a ZDNet article: «If there were any lingering doubts about whether Amazon Web Services were enterprise ready they dissolved this week once IBM became a partner. And now that Amazon and IBM have teamed up a picture of multiple … Continue reading →

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