What The Hell Is Cloud Computing?
2009-08-28 18:19:00 An Easy To Understand Explanation Cloud Computing is the hottest solution for IT businesses these days and i know there exist a good amount of people who did not understand the concept of Cloud Computing at all. The concept is actually simple. Revolutionary ideas are a bit difficult to understand sometimes. The following video will easily ... No related posts.
Cloud computing: Get on the ground floor
2009-08-28 13:00:00 "The term 'cloud computing' is nothing particularly new or complicated; it simply means that instead of having software on your home, office or notebook computer, you run applications over the Internet," explains Gregg Early.In Personal Finance he looks at three plays on this trend: Amazon.com (NA-SDAQ: AMZN); Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM); and Rackspace Hosting- (NYSE: RAX)."It’s the way of the future as computing becomes increasingly mobile. I would point out that I’m writing this article on Google Docs. This document is stored on a Google server farm, not on my office computer. "When I want to access this document -- from my house, office, laptop or mobile phone -- I simply go to my Google account and it shows up. This kind of computing has gone from quixotic concept to ubiquitous reality."From a business standpoint cloud computing is compelling because it means a business doesn’t have to buy softwar...
Cloud Computing
2009-08-25 08:55:00 General term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet is called cloud computing. Recently this term is often used because the trend of web service providers now is providing services with Infrastructure as a service. These services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). These interconnections ...
Is Cloud Computing in your Future?
2009-08-11 14:40:00 Free browser-based applications seem to be picking up in popularity. Microsoft will offer a lightweight version of Office 2010. Then there's Google Apps, the Chrome OS, and others. But some companies see only a small fraction of their workforce as being able to use such applications because of secur
In Cloud Computing, Data is Not Electricity
2009-08-03 14:46:00 From CNET News.com: One of the most common analogies used to describe the forces behind cloud computing is the rise of electric utilities at the turn of the century. The analogy is useful, but the cloud will evolve in some critically different ways. Read the whole article
Is Cloud Computing Detrimental For IT Professional Jobs?
2009-07-24 12:02:00 (Critical editing by Abhishek Kapoor) Nowadays you must have heard about the cloud computing technology that many IT companies have adopted. WATBlog has reported regularly about the whereabouts of Cloud Computing. No doubt its an innovative concept but somewhere it is threatening IT jobs. IDC has predicted that by 2012, investment on cloud service will increase to $42 billion. Analyst firm indicated that as time will pass cloud computing will become more and more prevalent it will replace the jobs performed by IT professionals. There’s nothing to worry, this won’t happen at least for the next few months. As of now SaaS is in and cloud computing is the next level but not its replacement. It is more likely to take five years for any company to switch over. Initially, cloud computing will create new jobs for monitoring infrastructure performance, datacenter operations, shifting to cloud service provider like Google, Amazon etc. According to Mark McDonald, Vice President of...
By: WATblog
Utility Based Pricing for Private Cloud Computing
2009-05-20 21:49:00 We just published our utility-based pricing for private cloud computing.
By: IT|Redux
Cloud Computing, SaaS and Such--Have We Read This Story Before?
2009-05-05 02:30:00 I have this incredible feeling of déjà vu.Cloud computing and Software as a Service is all the rage. In my practice at PJM Consulting, I am very involved in software startup activity. Nearly every new software company that I see today is being built on the Software as a Service business model. It's all the rage--so much so that it appears that any self-respecting software entrepreneur would be embarrassed to start a company using the traditional software licensing model. Even if an entrepreneur was so inclined, good luck finding a VC who would even consider funding such a company. No one wants to look like a dinosaur.It's all well and good--there is definitely a real trend toward SaaS and Cloud Computing, with many good reasons for it. But most high technology trends are initially a bit over-hyped, and tend to get ahead of themselves. In addition, this particular story seems ever so familiar to a tech veteran that's been around for a few of these cycles.The first bit of history t...
More Storms In The World Of Cloud Computing
2008-08-12 03:45:00 For the second time in as many weeks there was a problem in the Google ‘Cloud’. Today’s victim was their Gmail email system, for a couple of hours Gmail was unavailable to what appeared to be a pretty significant number of users. The interesting aspect to this outage was that it did not appear to be ...
Apple in the Clouds
2008-07-13 16:29:00 Arriving fashionably late on the cloud computing scene, Apple’s new MobileMe service appears to be the answer to integrated and unified information across a user’s Apple platforms. Rather than storing data individually on several platforms, it is kept on a single server or ‘cloud’ where it will keep all interconnected devices up to date with ...
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos on cloud computing
2008-05-31 17:20:00 Not to slam our current crop of tech and business reporters, but it’s refreshing to see an interview with a tech CEO done to the point with relevance. Done at the D6 conference, Om Malik Questioned Mr Bezos on how Amazon web services got stated and where it’s going. Om also brought Wall Street’s complete ignorance of the significance of the cloud computing wave into focus. How and when Amazon began its cloud computing effort. Why Amazon has become an innovator with Amazon Web Services and how it relates to their core business of being an online retailer. Whether or not Wall Street recognizes Amazons cloud efforts. Whats next for Amazon Web Services. Whether or not Amazon has plans for a VC fund or for cloud computing startups. (GigaOm)
By: Third Pipe
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By: weiwei's study
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By: weiwei's study
After user generated media, are user generated apps the next wave?
2008-05-19 21:25:00 Entire new businesses and communities have been built around user generated media. While the devoted amateur could always find a way, the declining cost of good production tools along with the ease of web distribution brought UGM to the masses. The blog you are reading now was enabled by a collection of free and easy ...
By: Third Pipe
HP and EDS merge. Is it about the cloud?
2008-05-13 14:53:00 If you’ve been following trends, the next big thing is utility computing in the cloud. It appears HP is interested in improving their cloud position, at least in the enterprise services market. We predict infrastructure on demand from HP is on the horizon, with more cloud based services to come. HP said the deal, which ...
By: Third Pipe
Google and IBM team up in the cloud
2008-05-11 22:44:00 In a joint public statement the search giant and big iron giant announced they are teaming up to offer a broad range of hosted apps and services. The partnership should extend Google’s reach into the enterpriser market and IBM’s reach into the small/ medium business / consumer markets. Over the next year, IBM and Google ...
By: Third Pipe
Google, IBM Join Forces To Offer Cloud Computing Services
2008-05-10 06:00:00 Google, IBM Join Forces To Offer Cloud Computing Services"The cloud has higher value in business," says Google CEO Schmidt.http://www.informationw-eek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?-articleID=207601147&cid=RSS-feed_TechWeb
Tech pundits chime in on ?what is cloud computing??
2008-05-08 14:33:00 Cloud Computing is one of our favorite subjects here at the Third Pipe. If you were to ask any of our contributors to define it, you’ll get a different answer. To me it’s the web itself, but a more timely definition would be anything that extends beyond the delivery of static content. The new ...
By: Third Pipe
Open Solaris takes up residence in Amazon?s cloud
2008-05-06 02:06:00 The speculation about a Sun / Amazon partnership is no more. Sun has announced that it will make Open Solaris available on Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service. Suns OpenSolaris OS will be available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers for free. It is in beta for now. Sun will provide premium technical support ...
By: Third Pipe
Sun follows Amazon into the cloud
2008-05-05 03:22:00 To be fair Sun’s Scott McNealy has been talking up the cloud computing concept since the early days of the internet. Unfortunately, Sun never really did much to convert the lofty idea into a service for the masses like Amazon has. Recently Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz hinted that a deal between Sun and Amazon ...
By: Third Pipe
Google, IBM Join Forces To Dominate 'Cloud Computing'
2008-05-02 01:26:00 Google, IBM Join Forces To Dominate 'Cloud Computing'The companies plan to exploit their common technological world view and considerable talent to build a worldwide network of servers for consumer and business use.http://www.informationweek.-...
FireFox Usage Expands Worldwide
2008-04-28 19:26:00 A nex report by Xiti indicates that Firefox browser has gained market share in most areas of the globe except for the US which had a small drop in March. Biggest gains are int eh New Europe countries like Poland. The most stalwart use being in Australia. According to Xiti, Internet Explorer has lost ...
By: Third Pipe
Growing in the cloud, Yahoo opens more API?s
2008-04-25 16:35:00 We’re seeign more and more signs that Yahoo really does have a clue about computing in the cloud. On thursday, CTO Ari Balogh annouce they are opening more API’s. “We are taking open to a whole other place,” Balogh said. “We are rewiring Yahoo from the inside out with a developer platform that will open ...
By: Third Pipe
Mozilla?s Prism simplifies building webtop apps
2008-04-25 03:38:00 Webtop apps or cloud based apps that run in a browser are the new wave of killer apps. Instead of monolithic applications built for the masses, the masses are building their own mass and micro market apps. New tools continue to make this easier. The Mozilla foundation’s Prizm is one such tool. The following ...
By: Third Pipe
3Tera Introduces Cloud Computing Without Compromise
2008-04-23 22:32:00 3Tera to demonstrate, for the first time, the foundations for its Cloudware Computing without Compromise architecture at the Web 2.0 Expo
Amazon?s Werner Vogels dicusees cloud computing
2008-04-18 19:33:00 New coud computing services with greater frequency with more innovation and variety. The could promises to put fully scalable computing power and storage in the hands of even the the individual as well as the corporation. Werner Vogels recencty described Amazon’s cloud services suite on IT Conversations. These problems affect companies of all sizes and ...
By: Third Pipe
Google / Salesforce team up: a Third Pipe perspective
2008-04-15 23:40:00 While the tech media seems infatuated with a Google / Microsoft cage fight, there’s more to this story than another battle between the tech titans. Salesforce.com upped the ante this week in its battle against traditional software vendors with the announcement of Salesforce for Google Apps. CEO Marc Benioff all but declared packaged software ...
By: Third Pipe
Amazon adds Perisitent Storage to cloud computing service
2008-04-14 18:34:00 Competition is good! With new entrants like Google entering the the cloud computing services area, incumbent Amazon will have to keep responding with more innovation to stay in the game. The new Persistent Storage service works something like an unformatted hard drive with the EC 2 cloud computing platform. People can sign up for an ...
By: Third Pipe
AMAZON ADDS PERSISTENT STORAGE TO CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICE
2008-04-14 17:11:00 It's just like an unformatted hard drive, Amazon.com Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels explained. The difference is that it's in the "cloud" somewhere and you get to it through an API. Amazon Web Services executives on Sunday described a forthcoming persistent storage feature, called EC2 Persistent Storage, which they say will make its hosted computing services more flexible and far more reliable. People can sign up for an early beta test program now before Amazon opens it up for a wider release later this year. The service works with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) hosted server offering. It allows developers to set aside a storage volume online, on which people save files in different file systems. This differs from what is available now with EC2 because once a compute instance is taken offline, the data associated with it goes away. With a persistent storage service, data can remain linked to a specific computing instance. Significantly, people can take a sna...
Free? and Flawed?
2008-04-09 16:00:00 There is an outfit called Joyent that is offering free python cloud computing for developers. All they ask is — “… Joyent only asks that you provide Joyent unlimited access to your customer information and clickstream data. …”. Sounds like a great deal for the developer doesn’t it? We don’t think so – To enter ...
By: Third Pipe
What Cloud Computing Really Means
2008-04-09 06:17:00 Cloud computing is all the rage. The problem is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a different definition.
By: mini wisdom
Google enters utility cloud computing business
2008-04-08 23:32:00 Google may be getting ready to take on Amazon’s online computing and storage services with it’s new App Engine. The lucky developers that were invited to be involved in the initial phase will have the chance to build apps that can be hosted and scaled infinitely on Google’s infrastructure. The App Engine will run in ...
By: Third Pipe
Is Google Prepping A Cloud Computing Platform?
2008-03-31 16:00:00 Data Center Knowledge – There was fresh chatter over the weekend that Google may be preparing to launch a cloud computing platform similar to Amazons EC2 and S3 – and that it might be free. This rumor is being stoked by an oblique post Saturday by Dave Winer, in which a talking pig asks him if hed like to run ... read more
When You Go to the Cloud, Take Your Lawyer with You
2008-03-13 14:14:00 Many companies today are moving back office functions either totally to services like S3 or portions there of. Or they are using the cloud for backup. Thats great and we encourge it. But before you buy into it hook, line and sinker do what most people don’t — talk to your legal council. Unhuh spend ...
By: Third Pipe
Make your own Youtube using Youtube?s infrastructure
2008-03-13 02:50:00 Those savvy enough to build apps are now able to roll our own UGM video sites using Youtube’s systems. The rest of us will have to wait for some OSS projects to appear or maybe a plug in or two to be written. You won’t have to “embed” any longer to post your own ...
By: Third Pipe
DropBox, S3 Storage with a Twist
2008-03-12 16:28:00 A new startup has come out with a product called DropBox. Simple in idea, executed well and it uses the S3 cloud for its storage. DropBox provides full sync capability between your machine and the cloud, open share folder, etc. Its possible success is its dead simple interface. — The idea behind Dropbox, which ...
By: Third Pipe
ThirdPipe of a Military Kind
2008-03-04 18:10:00 Just watch it – Granted it is a pitch by Lockheed for a new UAV multi role vehicle. But if you step back, the very telecommunications technology that makes this possible is ThirdPipe in nature. High bandwidth, wireless, satellite supported, GPS enabled with the intelligence forward placed in the end node (the plane…). I am not ...
By: Third Pipe
Defining utility and cloud computing, the future via the Third Pipe
2008-02-29 17:18:00 We like to throw the terms SAS and cloud computing around often on this blog. For good reason, these are the technologies that will define how the connected world will work and interact going forward. Here’s one related term we have unintentionally overlooked: utility computing. Confused yet? Here’s an excerpt from a great piece on ...
By: Third Pipe
Adobe to enable more apps in the cloud with AIR
2008-02-25 17:40:00 If adobe gets their way, developers with focusing their energies AIR instead of Windows or Mac. There is no stopping the move of apps to the cloud. What is still lacking with all of them is the ability to work without a broadband connection. AIR may very solve that problem while giving developers a ...
By: Third Pipe
Cloud database gets serious with $6.5 million in funding
2008-02-20 19:46:00 A pretty cool little database in the cloud called Blist just received a a big vote of confidence from the tech venture capital community. Touted as being easier to use than Microsoft Access, and currently free in beta. We think it’s the shape of things to come. Blist, a browser-based database management application, ...
By: Third Pipe
Saas, Not Quite There Yet?
2008-02-20 17:30:00 We picked up on some discussion from InfoQ on topics related to Software as a Service. We believe that Saas will be part of the underpinning that pushes ThirdPipe transport. Saas is to Visicalc as ThirdPipe is to the Apple II. Its the demand engine that pushes the ThirdPipe supply chain forward. Listen in to ...
By: Third Pipe
Clem, Jonah! Get the Lantern! We?re Going Gigging for Microsofts!
2008-02-18 19:29:00 In what has to be a feint in the virtual softs vs the shrink wrap softs, Google has enlisted Codeweavers to assist in developing a WINE port for Photoshop. This could have some significant impacts that I will get to – Google recently confirmed in a blog posting that it had paid Codeweavers to help ...
By: Third Pipe
Amazon S3 outage causes outrage or hiccups in the cloud
2008-02-15 23:20:00 We’re big on Amazon’s web services, and truly believe that the cloud is the new engine for all things computing. Having said that, a shadow of doubt was cast on the possibility that S3 may not be quite ready from prime time by a fairly lengthy outage this morning: There are reports that Amazon’s Simple ...
By: Third Pipe
Murdock to Ballmer: watch and learn while I take Yahoo away from you
2008-02-14 08:14:00 Microsoft’s relevance as a technology company is quickly fading away just like those old Polaroid prints from the 80’s that we all thought would last forever. Yahoo was not ready to join the evil empire unless the price was so silly that they could not resist. After all, Microsoft was mostly interested ...
By: Third Pipe
Introducing a more paperless society courtesy of the cloud
2008-02-12 22:41:00 Remember that colossal failure of the 90’s called the paperless office? Big suppliers were aggressively marketing document management systems to the corporate world, with the enthusiastic support of paper hating tree huggers. The problem was the systems were expensive, cumbersome, difficult to implement and many workers used the systems to create even more printed ...
By: Third Pipe
Work Your Own Cloud Dude!
2008-02-11 18:05:00 Not talking a gSpace under your Gmail here. Lets use Amazon S3 in big way. Use a front end service to help with the linkage. Elastic Drive provides that service on top of S3 virtual services. Some key benefits. – ElasticDrive acts as a server to serve read/write block operations to ...
By: Third Pipe
Banking Goes to the Cloud
2008-02-11 17:09:00 Banks first created the teller, and it was considered good. Banks then created the ATM, and it was considered great. Banks then created electronic banking systems and it was considered fanastic. Banks have now created checks scanned to deposit, and it is? Oh, well the jury is still out. Fact the technology is just ...
By: Third Pipe
Software testing goes to the masses via the cloud
2008-02-11 05:12:00 I’m going to coin the phrase cloud sourcing. Remember you saw it here first! Software testing just got a lot easier for business. Now anyone can be involved in software testing, and can even get paid for it. Not only can enterprise level computing be done in the cloud, but enterprise level project staffing can be ...
By: Third Pipe
Google After Microsoft Again
2008-02-10 19:46:00 Google is releasing a new variant of its business software. “Team Edition” is the name. It will lead the lineup for Standard, Premier and Education. The ‘hook’ to provide this teaming is the global domain name suffix that is utilized in the email account. – In a sense the Team Edition is a taste for ...
By: Third Pipe
What is cloud computing?
2008-01-29 11:23:00 In the earlier blog post I wrote about how Wipro is going gung ho about cloud computing. Cloud Computing, what is that? Is it something related to the shepherds who flock sheep whole day and count number of clouds up in the sky to overcome boredom? Please excuse me for my ignorance; I know I am dead wrong, because till then I didn’t stumble on this piece of information from Wikipedia. Cloud computing is a computing paradigm shift in which computing is moved away from personal computers or an individual application server to a "cloud" of computers. Users of the cloud only need to be concerned with the computing service being asked for, because the underlying details of how it is achieved are hidden. This method of distributed computing is done by pooling computer resources and managing them via software (rather than by a human). The services requested of a cloud are not limited to web applications, but may also include IT management tasks, such as requesting of s... |
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