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At Pixily, Cloud Computing Quenches the Downpour of Paper (1)
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startups, Software, cloud computing Wade Roush wrote: I am not a David Allen disciple, but the one practice I did adopt after reading his time-management bible Getting Things Done many years ago was to start a filing system for the stacks of papers that used to cause a distracting mess around my home and office. As a result, I’ve got about six boxes full of neatly labeled file folders—most of which I will probably never ...Shared by Jacob (28)Contribute comment -
Clouds on Vista's horizon to be dubbed Strata? (4)
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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops When Ballmer dropped a few sprinkles of information about Vista's successor, he dubbed it "Windows Cloud," but said the real moniker would be unveiled at the Professional Developers Conference later this month in LA. That show's agenda was recently posted, and interestingly contained a number of sessions under the header "Windows Strata," leading many to believe that it's the true name of Redmond's next offering. That the section was quickly changed ...Contribute comment -
Amazon Cuts Prices on S3 (3)
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Amazon announced today that it will cut prices for its Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) offering on Nov. 1. The company is essentially offering people who use more storage significant volume discounts. For folks using up to 50 terabytes of storage, the price cuts don’t make much of a difference. In the U.S. they pay 15 cents per gigabyte; in Europe, 18 cents. If you go above 50 terabytes, the price declines by a penny ...Contribute comment -
Post-modern IT: Question #1 (1)
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Posted by Chris Howard and Mike Rollings This is the first of four questions posed to my team from a recent press inquiry. The subject was generally around SaaS and the cloud, but with specific questions around the future of the IT organization. We ended up describing what I call post-modern IT: IT that has been broken apart, re-examined, and re-assembled to meet the needs of the modern, global organization. The "flat world" thesis is ...Shared by Paul (17)Contribute comment -
Everybody’s putting integration services in the cloud | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services (2)
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Both Pervasive Software and Cast Iron Systems told me recently of fairly pure cloud offerings. In this, they’re joining Informatica, which started offering Salesforce.com integration-as-a-service back in 2006. So far as I can tell, the three vendors are doing somewhat different things. I get the impression Informatica is still Salesforce-only, e.g. from this price [...]Shared by jeff hammerbacher (41) Michael (116)Contribute comment -
GoDaddy.com Launches New Hosted Microsoft Exchange (2)
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Here we go: This is, I believe, the first reasonably priced hosted Exchange service. Here’s the official press release: GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain registrar and largest hosting provider in North America, and Microsoft Corp. today announced that GoDaddy.com is delivering mobile and group e-mail plans with Microsoft Outlook, powered by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) improve worker productivity and communications regardless of physical location. The new e-mail plans ...Shared by James (23) Wes (23)Contribute comment -
Interesting stuff from around the web 2008-10-06 (1)
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The map is scaled to the number of radios in each territory. The most radios per person are in Norway - at more than 3 per person. Lots and lots of clouds Stephen Fry explains the principles of cloud computing and recommends a few services Clever man Stephen Fry, perhaps he could write a piece on OpenID next. Richard Stallman on Cloud Computing: “Stupidity” [autonomo.us] “I’m very supportive of [Stallman's] concern about cloud computing, and ...Shared by Rick (20)Contribute comment -
Making EDA programming simple with JeeWiz (1)
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Event Driven Architecture (EDA) is becoming more popular these days, as the drive for loosely coupled and scalable architecture forces us to break our systems into components and integrate them through some sort of workflow. Having said that, thinking in asynchronous events is not a trivial concept to deal with, seeing as we used to thinking and programming in a synchronous manner.Space-Based Architecture lends itself very nicely to EDA, because it provides a means to ...Shared by codeslinger (26)Contribute comment -
Enomaly: An Open Source Cloud For the Enterprise (3)
onEnomaly is trying to sell big business on its open-source cloud management and provisioning software by renaming it and packaging it with enterprise-level support, a model popularized by Red Hat. The software, formerly known as Enomalism, will now use the Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform as its new moniker. The software sits between the servers and applications, allocating virtual resources to programs when they need them. Others offering similar management software include RightScale, Elastra and 3Tera. ...Contribute comment
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Nati Shalom's Blog: Is MapReduce going mainstream? (8)
onI'm getting a lot of questions lately about the use of MapReduce: how it compares with other technologies such as Grid, and how the the different solutions that claims support for MapReduce (GigaSpaces included) fit into the puzzle. A good starting point is the intense discussion on the cloud computing mailing list under the topic: "Is Map/Reduce going mainstream?" where I contributed some of my own thoughts on the topic. To summarize the questions on ...Shared by acacio (11) afroginthevalley (12) cansmith (19) codeslinger (26) Ihar Voitka (10) Josh Mize (26) Tom White (2) voidfiles (53)Contribute comment
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Is MapReduce going mainstream? (2)
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Compares MapReduce to other parallel processing approaches and suggests new paradigm for clouds and gridsShared by Al. (18) Thomas Stromberg (20)- Thomas Stromberg said: I'm glad to see that so many people are paying attention to M/R outside of Google, but I don't buy the assertions this article makes about it's place in grid computing.
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Video: Understanding Cloud Computing in Plain English (1)
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Cloud Computing has entered mainstream media…but if you ask people what it is, many can’t really tell you. My job as the Technology Evangelist at GoGrid is to try to help people understand it, whether they be technical or not. We have several channels that we have been trying to communicate what cloud computing is, and each method talks to a different audience. However, I sometimes forget that not everybody is technical or loves technology ...Shared by Piku (15)Contribute comment -
Minnov8 Gang Podcast - Episode 9 (1)
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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson Based upon feedback we’ve received from you and many other listeners, the Gang is increasing the pace of the show and getting to areas of interest in a tighter show format. In today’s show, a few links mentioned include: + Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) Summit + The concurrent UnSummit that occurred for those unable to get into the MIMA Summit + TechCrunch article on the ...Shared by e-strategyblog.com (71)Contribute comment -
¿Qué es eso de “Windows Cloud”? (3)
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Una mención rápida hecha por Steve Ballmer el pasado miércoles está generando bastante intriga e interés: un pre-anuncio de algo que el CEO de Microsoft denominó Windows Cloud, que estaría diseñado para programadores que escribiesen aplicaciones de cloud computing, y que sería desvelado por la compañía en el plazo de un mes. Los detalles, en ComputerWorld o en Slashdot. La reacción más habitual está siendo el escepticismo. ¿Puede Microsoft, la empresa que e mostró incapaz ...Contribute comment -
Who’s Watching Your Collaboration? (1)
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that China is monitoring text-based communications for users of the Tom-Skype service. As the debate continues on whether or not public services are sufficient for enterprise communication and collaboration, organizations ought to keep in mind the risks of using public services, especially without any opportunity to independently validate security and privacy controls.Shared by Mike F (647)Contribute comment -
Death of the database [100-word Version] (9)
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PBS pundit Robert X. Cringely says he realized at last week's MIT Technology Review conference that cloud computing means, in short, "No database." Cringely sees it as the end of Oracle's dominance of information technology. I expect Oracle Cloud any day now. Here's a summary of Cringely's long article, plus the joke about Ellison's sex life, minus Cringely's references to himself: Thanks in part to Larry Ellison's hard work and rapacious libido, databases are to ...Shared by aaron (115) Chris Miller (23) madMilo (20) Nate (9) Ryan Joseph (38) terry (11) Tim (52) tosch (24) Zach Scott (18)Contribute comment -
Microsoft Promises New, Fluffier Version of Windows (1)
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Microsoft has a new version of Windows coming that's meant to capitalize on the "cloud computing" buzz.Shared by carmilevy (30)Contribute comment -
The Cloud (1)
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Welcome to get our of your feedreader weekend! Photo Credit Here in the Pacific Northwest, it appears as though we’ve officially entered into our six months of clouds (that’s right Californians, you don’t want to move here) which got me thinking about clouds even more than usual. Many of you have been hearing about “The Cloud”, “SAAS” (Software As A Service) and “Cloud Computing” for a while, but for those who are uninitiated, it’s the ...Shared by Molly M (8)Contribute comment -
SQL Server Data Services Team Architect Contrasts SSDS with SQL Server Under Amazon EC2 (2)
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Soumitra Sengupta, an Architect on the SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) team posted the following comment in response to my Amazon Adds SQL Server to Oracle and MySQL as EC2 Relational Database Management Systems post of 10/1/2008: A few comments: 1. What Oracle and Microsoft announced with AWS is simply an evolution to hosting. It does enable developers to get to the cloud faster and probably at a cheaper cost. Simple way to think about ...Shared by mca (40) StatisticsIO (47)Contribute comment -
Amazon Adds SQL Server to Oracle and MySQL as EC2 Relational Database Management Systems (1)
onAmazon Web Services announced on 10/1/2008 that Amazon EC2 “will offer you the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft SQL Server … later this Fall.” This capability adds to last week’s announced availability of Oracle 11g and MySQL 5.1 running under *nix operating systems. (See SSDS’s Competitors : Oracle 11g and Sun MySQL on Amazon EC2 of 9/23/2008). The Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server sign-up page to be notified of the public ...Shared by mca (40)Contribute comment
