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Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexedHead in the clouds...So, Microsoft "cloud computing" is another huge boon to IT Departments who want to hire more staff? I wonder if anyone will eventually wake up and realize that IT departments can usually be replaced by a dozen temp...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Databases, Windows Azure, Azure, PDC, Microsoft Corp., data center, server, ISV

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Microsoft PDC: Will the real cloud platform please stand up?

Microsoft PDC: Will the real cloud platform please stand up?Its such a mix mash of thingsA lot of the Services/Cloud efforts Microsoft is spearheading seems too conflicting at times. I personally started to use Live Mesh to store documents and other files, yet it does so many of the things...

Tags: Programming languages, SkyDrive, Microsoft Corp., stand-up

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

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Acer announces first Google Chrome OS netbook

ChromeOS as dual-boot optionAlthough not Google's plan, I think ChromeOS would be a great dual-boot option, for existing Windows & Ubuntu netbooks.When you want an instant on, fast, secure & no maintenance OS, for internet access, boot into ChromeOS. When you need a specific desktop application, boot into Windows or...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Google Inc., Google Chrome, Acer Inc., netbook, ChromeOS, Ubuntu Netbooks, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-12-02

Pondering a rogue cloud; Will platform providers cave to business, government interests?

Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain played the contrarian when it comes to cloud computing: Is the cloud really the backbone of the future we want? Do we all want to be slaves to a tethered device? by Larry Dignan

Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Telecommunications, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-12-02

Amazon CTO: Cloud's advantage

At the Supernova Conference in San Francisco, Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels broadly outlines the benefits of a cloud-based infrastructure. He says Web services offer businesses the ability to lower costs, increase agility, and run a more secure platform within their organizations.

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Web Services, Benefits, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Marketing, Amazon, Supernova

Videos 2009-12-01

Ruby on Rails becomes latest open-source offering to run on Microsoft's Azure cloud

RE: Ruby on Rails becomes latest open-source offering to run on Microsoft's Azure cloudI still don't understand what in Azure is different for the better or worst than Amazon's or Rackspace's or other instant-server-on-demand cloud offerings.Interesting. Let's see if fellow ZDNet bloggers will acknowledge this..The more offerings, the better, as...

Tags: Blogging, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, dev, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Rackspace, Azure, open source, Google Inc., Microsoft Azure

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

Ruby on Rails becomes latest open-source offering to run on Microsoft's Azure cloud

For a while now, Microsoft has been courting open-source software makers to convince them of the wisdom of offering their wares on Windows. So it's not too surprising that many of those same apps also are being moved to the Windows Azure cloud platform. The Ruby on Rails framework is...

Tags: Microsoft Azure, Ruby, Microsoft Corp., Ruby On Rails Framework, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-12-01

Does Amazon know where it's going with the Kindle?

Amazon, please ignore AdrianNormally I'm right with Adrian, but he obviously doesn't have a Kindle, which is my favorite device. To Amazon: don't add battery sucking features (like wi-fi), we don't care about multi-purpose (it's a bookreader!), i don't want cr@apps on my Kindle (it's a bookreader!) and I don't...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Does virtualization equal cloud computing?

I would say yesThere is no need to buy 'stand alone' servers any longer in functionality when you can put it in a Blade 'name your flavor' chassis.Virtualization with VMware/RHEL or some vendor is the best way to get it off bare-metal...Doing baremetal rebuilds is time consuming and it takes...

Tags: Data centers, Servers, Utility computing, server, cloud computing, virtualization, cluster

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

The cloud computing battleground takes shape. Will it be winner-take-all?

You can't be a good consultant if you can't even mention MSIf you really think MS is irrelevant in cloud computing then you have some serious bias issues to work out.The fact that throughout your entire blog you can't even get yourself to mention MS or Azure even once is...

Tags: Virtualization, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, cloud computing battleground, Microsoft Corp., cloud computing, Azure, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Larry Augustin's practical revolution at SugarCRM

Dana, what is the trend in the Open Source community?OS started as a software development and delivery model "for the people by the people", i.e. free use enabled by free contributions. Now free contributions are likely drying out. Companies with paid employees are contributing the most significant part of code....

Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Welcome Back, SugarCRM

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Live Webcast: Turbo-charge your SOA

While the value proposition of SOA is no longer the question, achieving maximum returns on SOA investments remains an art. In the new release of the SOA Suite (11g), Oracle has delivered the next generation SOA platform that greatly simplifies the development, deployment, management and monitoring of service-oriented architectures,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Webcast, SOA, Dave, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2009-11-24

Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance

What Salesforce did was pricing, not features...What I was talking about that most people missed wasn't the feature set. Of course that isn't new. Even Benioff pretty much admits he stole the idea from Facebook and Twitter.But at the Techcrunch Real Time Crunchup on Friday Benioff said Salesforce was working...

Tags: Pricing, Sales force management, Marketing research, Strategy, Chatter, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Google goes all-in with an open source cloud

RE: Google goes all-in with an open source cloudGoogle is redifing the marketplace each day with calculated innovation to set the table for their advancement and domination in the future. I can't for the fight that is coming with MS Office next year and Google docs.another nail in M$...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Chrome, Windows 7 market share, Google Inc., open source, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Chrome OS: More questions than answers?

And exactly why....would students be part of the target market or any other particular group for that matter?This is a silly post. Chrome will be lean, cloud based, local caching of data, some and growing off-line capabilities and probably grow in features/capabilities over time. It will NOT be everything to...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Outlook, Wi-Fi, operating system, Google Inc., Chrome, HTML5, Chrome OS

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Microsoft Windows Azure and SQL Azure

Windows Only? You have not done your research...To quote: "Microsoft?s APIs and services are still closed and proprietary. They still assume a Windows-only world.""A Windows-only world" - this is not true in the least... Spend 10 minutes and do a review of the documentation on MSDN. PHP is not "windows...

Tags: Construction, Research & Development, window, Windows Only, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Roku becomes cloud-enabled with new Roku Channel Store and Developer SDK

The new Roku Channel Store, which is being rolled out to all Roku devices, will greatly expand the capabilities of the $99 set-top on-demand streaming device. Late Sunday night, Roku announced that its players would now have a "Channel...

Tags: Developer, SDK, Roku Inc., Roku Channel Store, Managed Hosting, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, Podcasts, Marketing, Internet, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-11-22

Google makes Chrome OS open source today

I like itThe ChromeOS demo looked pretty cool!I'm almost 100% webapp-based already, so I could see myself using a simple, fast & no maintenance OS like that the majority of the time.I like it too, but, for me, I need to compile and run programs locally. I would imagine that...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, open source, Google Inc., Chrome, operating system, ChromeOS

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Google's Chrome OS: Will you give up desktop apps?

I won't ntntI can'tI'm not online 24/7. I need local apps, as does everyone else. Say what you want. But network outages happen... Weather by forces of nature or human error, a network will eventually go down. It's only a matter of time. And knowing Google's past GMail outages, I...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Desktops, operating system, desktop, Google Inc., desktop app, netbook, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19