Cloud Computing is reported as set to revolutionise the business environment, particularly, the way we use information technology products and services.Could it be the next stage in outsourcing, which certainly gripped the Information technology arena in the last ten years and saw companies essentially outsourcing all their software development/IT support requirements to off shore and even on shore companies to allegedly reduce cost.Whether these companies derived the so called cost benefits and still maintained quality is highly debatable.Along comes Cloud [...]
Save significant cost on development and test environments using Cloud Computing
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Oct 282011
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Everyday we talk with companies that are evaluating cloud computing capabilities to reduce costs, be more flexible, leverage new technologies or deliver scale. More and more enterprises are looking to cloud computing and are starting proof-of-concepts and migrating real applications to leverage these benefits.A deeper questioning is now happening on how business models will benefit from cloud computing. Most of the recent discussions on the cloud concentrates on the opportunities, questions, and technical challenges that need to be addressed. However, [...]
Where To Get Cloud Computing Education
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Sep 282011
When you want to give your business or company the large internet appeal without having the large internet company behind you, then you need to go to cloud computing class. Cloud computing allows you to rent applications and pay as you go. Therefore, you only pay for the resources that you use. This gives you unlimited resources to use and you can use them at your discretion. Applications are used which are opened through an internet browser and then stored [...]
Sep 282011
When people say “Big Iron” they are referring to those powerful computers or the mainframes. They are generally used in vital applications in big companies usually involved in massive processing of data like census, statistics and transaction processing.One of the biggest benefits of mainframes is their reliability in processing massive amounts of data no matter if one or two systems break down it will continue to function compared to normal computers and their biggest disadvantage falls on the high cost [...]
Challenges Of Monitoring And Profiling Your Applications Running In The Cloud
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Sep 242011
Cloud Computing presents unique opportunities to companies to reduce costs, outsource non-core functions and scale costs to match demand. However, the Cloud also presents a new level of complexity that makes ensuring application performance in the Cloud a unique challenge, in particular with the many different usage and deployment scenarios available. Perhaps the most popular present scenario uses the Cloud to perform certain tasks where additional computational power is unavailable in a local environment, e.g.: running large scale load-tests or [...]
Cloud Computing: What is Google App Engine ?
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Sep 202011
Google App Engine is an online platform to host your web application. It is what is popularly called a Cloud Computing platform to host and enable your web applications on the cloud. Essentially having a cloud platform for hosting your applications abstracts you from worrying about the various platform setup and environment related issues like server configuration, network configuration, bandwidth requirements among others.What languages are supported ?If there is one limitation from the platform it is the language support. Recently [...]
Sep 162011
Cloud Computing has evolved into a large spectrum of services under a broader umbrella and typically all services which include shared resources, software and platforms provided as an ‘On-Demand’ service fall into this category. Cloud Computing however has various flavors of implementation and in this article we will talk about the three major flavors Software as a Service which are (SaaS), Platform as a Service(PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).Software as a Service(SaaS)Software as a Service is a term [...]
Is Cloud Computing Right For You?
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Sep 152011
Wherever you look today, you see the CLOUD. Well! It’s the CLOUD COMPUTING that I’m talking about!Some call it Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), some Software as a Service (SaaS) and others as a Platform as a Service (PaaS). Players like IBM and Google have already positioned themselves strongly in this arena whereas others like Yahoo, Microsoft, eBay and Salesforce.com are not far behind. Everyone is not only talking about cloud but also seriously considering the option of switching to [...]
Sep 082011
Run windows applications on Chrome OSMissing something? Office? Photoshop? Visual studio? Trading platform? Right. So many things that you may miss on Chrome OS. But what if you can use Windows or Linux applications right within the browser? You need just two things. Internet connection and tryVPS. ( Chrome OS cloud provider)
Mobile Software Computing: Mobile Industry on Cloud – What is Cloud Computing?
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Aug 182011
Lately, Cloud Computing was in the gossip news as two technology leaders, HP and Dell, were warring it out to buy a cloud computing company. So, what exactly is Cloud Computing?The hottest wave in the world of technology is the growth of Cloud Computing. While many technologically advanced people are aware of Cloud Computing; it is still a new term for the mass. In this blog, we will be in brief going over what Cloud Computing is and how Mobile [...]