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Interesting Articles from this week

November 1, 2009 in CloudViews, News by hugo.mag | No comments

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 case for open business methods:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=218

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

July 19, 2009 in Basic Views, CloudViews, IT Departments, Interoperability, News, Technical by Maria Spínola | 1 comment

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)

Thanks and please let me know how I can help you.

P.S. And of course your comments, feedback’s and thoughts are always welcome.

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Cloud Computing Briefings about Research, Companies, Key Players and Platforms

July 5, 2009 in Basic Views, News by Maria Spínola | No comments

I just found this nice resource about Cloud Computing (it’s owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
http://www.technologyreview.com/briefings/cloud/

There we can find information about Research, Companies, Key Players and Platforms – click on the Cloud Scene “blue image” and see by yourself :)

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Cloud Computing: why not just call it WEB 2.0

December 29, 2008 in Basic Views by pcalcada | No comments

WEB 2.0 (or Read-Write-Web, or…), being most of all a boom in technology development and a change in the users’ behavior, that’s far from the whole, Cloud Computing brings what was missing: users’ interface homogenization, interoperability, better access control and Identity management, business models, etc. All this things are part of other paradigms, concepts and technologies, but Cloud Computing tries to group everything in a concise and clear way.

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Cloud it or not to Cloud it?

December 19, 2008 in IT Departments, Interoperability by pcalcada | No comments

Cloud it or not to cloud it, will be for certain one of the major questions that the IT departments will have to face in the 2009/2010 period. They are always confronted with the need to reduce their platform costs and to increase the performance. In the upcoming times they will have to confront these necessities or challenges more than ever. With all the experts (if we forget the existing skeptics) saying that with Cloud Computing we will increase availability, performance, security, and despite that, we will be able to reduce the costs, I’m sure that all the IT departments should have to start questioning themselves – Cloud it or not to cloud it?

It’s obvious that its not clear that Cloud computing is the IT department’s salvation, but, I think that this paradigm will help the IT experts move forward and get better results from their efforts.

For more numbers and opinions you can read some thoughts  about it:

(this is an old text and it’s already result of our 2008 review)

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8199

-By 2012, 80 percent of Fortune 1000 enterprises will pay for some cloud
computing service and 30 percent of them will pay for cloud computing
infrastructure.

-Through 2010, more than 80 percent of enterprise use of cloud computing
will be devoted to very large data queries, short-term massively
parallel workloads, or IT use by startups with little to no IT
infrastructure.

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Preparing cloudviews.Org – Ubiquitous Computing Vs Cloud Computing

December 12, 2008 in CloudViews by pcalcada | No comments

When I was preparing the cloudviews.org site and was talking with Hugo about its objectives, he immediately confronted me with the question “what about Ubiquitous Computing? Doesn’t it have the same goals and definition as Cloud Computing?”.
Ubiquitous computing is a concept that I’ve already give some attention to, but Hugo’s question made me recognize, one more time, that Cloud Computing  must give credits to a great number of visionaries. His question made me  also get my bookmarks and give more time to this subject.

The concept of Ubiquitous computing was presented for the first time by Mark Weiser, in his text on Scientific American, September 1991. It is a 17-year-old concept, older than the Internet itself (the Internet as we know it nowadays, at least). It describes a computer not as a self contained object, but as multiple objects that are everywhere (hence, the ubiquitous), and are part of our daily life from the most simple tasks to the most complex ones. Ubiquitous Computing  is responsible for a great and valuable number of developments in multiple areas. We can look at some examples in the Ubicom2008 conference.

As for Cloud Computing, I can say that it doesn’t have the intention to break with traditional computing in such a radical way. With Cloud Computing  a computer will continue to be an object that groups tools with a given functionality, allowing communication between those tools, and allowing interaction with the users as well. It will continue to be a place to work, play, or “surf”. With Cloud Computing the change is in the organics of this object (computer). Its simple and solid structure (the operating system) will be transformed into a more dynamic structure (the Internet), enhancing the capability to communicate and collaborate. Cloud Computing doesn’t put the computer everywhere but, instead, it gives access to it everywhere.

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Hello world!

December 11, 2008 in CloudViews by admin | No comments

Welcome to CloudViews. Org, a cloud computing daily views site.

This site is under construction so, please be patient. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. You can also read the About page.

Thanks

Paulo Calçada

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