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- Cloud
- A network infrastructure. Clouds generally refer to wide area networks WANs such as the Internet, but can also be used to depict local networks LANs. A cloud-like symbol...
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- Zoho's CloudSQL: a real step forward
- Zoho just can't stop churning out software. Today it is launching the Zoho CloudSQL. Put simply, this is the first step to providing a cloud based integration framework that allows developers to pass data between Zoho applications and their own. This is exciting stuff. For the...
- Tags: SQL, Cloud, Zoho, Smb/Sme, Databases, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- It's different, developing to the cloud
- Platform-as-a-service dramatically it changes the development process. But don't take it from me - Microsoft's cloud platform Windows Azure was itself developed in the cloud, and its developers learnt a lot of new tricks. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Cloud, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Phil Wainewright, Developer, Platform, Podcasts, Collaboration, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Making clouds a move forward
- For a decade I've been writing about Web sites, about e-commerce companies, and about Web 2.0 outfits that hit a wall of scaling. When users "rush to the rail" even systems like Twitter can slow down or crash. The real promise of clouds is to end this fear. by Dana...
- Tags: Web, Cloud, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Construction, Web Site Development, Internet, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn, Cloud Computing
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Salesforce to partner with Facebook
- At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, and Steve Fisher, senior vice president of the platform division at Salesforce, demonstrate a recruiting program made possible by making Force.com's platform compatible with Facebook. When it comes to things like job recommendations, social networks are...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Sales Force Management, Sales, software, platforms, SaaS, cloud, computing, compatible, applications, Dreamforce
- Videos 2008-11-04
- Cloud-computing zombies for $299 per month
- RSA says cloud-computing crimeware means networks of zombie machines can be hired to steal online-banking details for as little as $299 a month. Cloud-computing crimeware means networks of zombie machines can be hired to steal online-banking details for as little as $299 (£185) per month....
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., Network, Fraudster, Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Productivity, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Networking, Nick Heath silicon.com, Adware & Malware, security, malware, Trojan, RSA, cloud, zombie
- News items 2008-11-03
- Gallery: Microsoft takes wraps off Windows Azure
- At Microsoft's PDC 2008 conference, the company's chief software architect Ray Ozzie took the wraps off Windows Azure which is an operating system that lets developers write programs for Microsoft's data centers instead of individual pieces of software for business servers. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Andy Smith, Cloud, windows, PDC08, Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia, David Thompson
- Image galleries 2008-10-29
- Making the cloud accountable
- Enterprise IT folk will like CohesiveFT's new VPN-Cubed secure infrastructure for cloud deployments. It hands them back control over security and privacy, and lets them bridge across clouds for resilience. So who says cloud users are stupid? by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Cloud, Security, Strategy, Management, Phil Wainewright, Cloud Computing, Server Virtualization, Financial Accounting, Servers, Hardware, Finance
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Microsoft becoming a SaaS company
- Azure's management system can enable software and data to escape a hardware failure. This requirement actually hurts Microsoft in the short term. Services must be run on pre-designed templates. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Microsoft Corp., Azure, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn, Hardware Failure, Cloud, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Why 'Azure'?
- How did Microsoft end up going from "Red Dog" to bright blue Azure in naming its just-unveiled cloud operating environment? by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Mary Jo Foley, Cloud, Microsoft Corp., Azure, Storage, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Gmail outage: Not enough reason to avoid the cloud
- In case you didn't hear, Gmail had an outage yesterday. I wasn't affected personally - the company said it affected only a small number of people. And even though it was rumored that the outage could last close to 24 hours, apparently the problem was relatively short-lived and quickly resolved....
- Tags: Google Gmail, Basement, Information Technology, Outage, Cloud, Manufacturing, E-mail, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Online Communications, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- The Future looks very Cloudy
- I've just attended the one day, highly-focused executive 'Cloud Summit' conference. The Cloud—used to describe everything from internet-based computing utilities to Software as a Service — was examined and its future impact explored within the highly appropriate venue of the Silicon Valley Computer History Museum. ...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Trend Micro Inc., Information Technology, Cloud, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Egnyte: enterprise in the cloud
- A screenshot walkthrough of the powerful Enterprise 2.0 application, Egnyte, which enables more economical storage at a cheaper price to hardware on-site alternatives. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Zack Whittaker, Egnyte, Enteprise 2.0, Cloud, Storage, Hardware, Web 2.0, Economical, Sharing, Collaboration, Version Tracking
- Image galleries 2008-10-14
- The cloud finally comes to education
- Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...
- Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Ballmer: Moving closer to the cloud
- At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gives his definition of cloud computing, which is moving information outside of the firewall and putting it on storage systems that are shared with other companies. Ballmer adds that Microsoft will offer more details about the company's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Firewalls, Cloud Computing, Storage, Storage Management, Networking, Hardware, Churchill Club, Cloud
- Videos 2008-09-26
- Hey, you, get onto my cloud!
- More important than in past vendor sporting events, the business model rules. The cloud model that wins is the "preferred cloud model" that gives IT shops in enterprises high performance at manageable complexity and dramatically lower total costs. That same "preferred" cloud attracts the platform as a service developer crowd,...
- Tags: Information Technology, Boundary, Standards, Cloud, Quality, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Skytap making a home in the clouds
- I've been remiss in posting about Skytap. They spent some time with me prior to my trip to Citrix's bash in Scottsdale, AZ, and I've not found time to post about that interesting conversation about their new Skytap web services API. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Skytap,...
- Tags: Application, Environment, Cloud, Sales Channel, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Will one company control the cloud?
- At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, tech executives question whether a few global companies will control all of cloud computing with a single set of standards, or if trust and the desire for data portability will mean many small clouds. Speakers include Barry Lynn of 3tera and Vance...
- Tags: Cloud, Quality, Business Operations, Office 2.0, mozy, 3tera, monopoly, cloud computing
- Videos 2008-09-08
- 1,500 ships to fight climate change?
- According to UK and U.S. researchers, it should be possible to fight the global warming effects associated with an increase of dioxide levels by using autonomous cloud-seeding ships to spray salt water into the air. This project would require the deployment of a worldwide fleet of 1,500 unmanned ships to...
- Tags: Droplet, Vessel, Cloud, Ship, Wiki, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- Cloud Studio (zip)
- Cloud Studio is a cross-platform visual tool designed to make the development of applications for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) more convenient. Developers or someone responsible for applications deployment can effortlessly create and destroy instances, manage security groups, keypairs, and allocate and assign IP addresses. Studio also supports Amazon Simple...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Cloud, Cloud Studio, Productivity, Security
- Software downloads 2008-09-04
- Hyperic gets on Google's cloud
- Hyperic CloudStatus is now available to users of Google AppEngine cloud. The program was already available to users of Amazon's Web Services cloud. Hyperic principal engineer Jon Travis said the integration with Google is even "tighter" than with Amazon, but the two clouds serve different customer...
- Tags: Google Inc., Monitoring, Cloud, Hyperic CloudStatus, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
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