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Piecing together Microsoft's cloud-computing vision

A new white paper, sponsored by Microsoft and written by the always entertaining consultant David Chappell, provides more clues about what the Softies are planning to unveil at this October's Professional Developers Conference. For anyone looking to understand how and where Red Dog, Zurich, BizTalk Services and SQL Server Data...

Tags: Zurich, Operating System, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Service, David Chappell, Red Dog, SQL Server Data Services, Application Service, EC2, EC2 Customer, Windows Live ID, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Desktop Virtualization, Software As A Service (SaaS), Software, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-08-19

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Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...

Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Amazon on Tuesday launched a public beta of a service dubbed the Amazon Relational Database Service RDS. The main appeal: Allow customers to operate and scale database clusters while leaving pesky tasks like patching and administration to Amazon Web Services. Adam Selipsky, vice president of Amazon Web...

Tags: MySQL, Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., RDBMS, EC2, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle

We DO need to be able to second source our cloud provider in order to keep them honest. I applaud Amazon if they do in fact allow EC2 to become a standard.Just what the world needs...ANOTHER monopoly.:-(Did you read the article? Amazon is allowing it to become a standard, so,...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...

Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

News to know: Gmail outage; VMWorld; Skype; Browsers; Steve Jobs; Google Wave

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Partly cloudy: Google's Gmail goes down; outage chronicled on Twitter Christopher Dawson: Oh sure...4 days in...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Outage, Sam Diaz, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Internet, Software

Blog posts 2009-09-02

A look at On2 Technologies and why Google wants it

It's not very often that Google makes an acquisition and the target inspires a collective "who?" But that's what happened when the search giant bought On2 Technologies, a penny stock trading in obscurity on the American Stock Exchange, for 60 cents a share. And unless you've followed the wonderful world...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., On2 Technologies, Video, H.264, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-05

EURO.calc 2.21 (Mobile)

p.ec {text-align: justify;font-family: Arial,Helvetiva,Verdana,sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 8pt;text-decoration: none;text-align : justify;margin-top: 3px;margin-bottom: 3px;}h1.ec {text-align: left;font-family: Arial,Helvetiva,Verdana,sans-serif;color: #FF5C0F;font-size: 9pt;text-decoration: none;font-weight: bold;margin-top: 3px;margin-bottom: 3px;}td.ec1 {vertical-align: top;}td.ec2 {vertical-align: bottom;text-align: center;}td.ec {background-color: #F0F0F0;vertical-align: top;width: 50%;} Currency Converter, Calculator and Expense Manager Währungs- und Taschenrechner sowie Ausgaben-Manager With EURO.calc you can convert currencies, do calculations and save...

Tags: Sony Corp., Mobile, Palm Inc., Add2Expense, Palm OS, Mobile Operating Systems, PDAs, Handhelds, Mobile Applications, Operating Systems, Wireless And Mobility, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Cloud computing and open source face-off

Cloud computing and open source face-offThanks for the shout outI think your piece adds a lot to the discussion as well.Master Joe Says...Just two questions. The word proprietary is mentioned. Last time I checked, one of the biggest reasons that the open-source idiots, also known as OSI, complained...

Tags: cloud business, open source, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Even more signs your software vendor can't innovate fast enough

Forrester analyst Ray Wang has a list of seven Vinnie Mirchandani adds another seven Here's mine: Channel partners find there is little new to offer the market, start to leave their main vendor. Channel partners thrive on new functionality. If it...

Tags: Software, Software Company, Vendor, Carrot, Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Citrix C3 â€" Where are the partners?

Citrix put some significant new meat on the bones of its Citrix Cloud Center (C3) offering last week but left behind one crucial element. Who are the partners delivering this offering? At its annual customer get together, Citrix Synergy 2009, the company fulfilled our prediction of the true...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Citrix C3 Strategy, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Internet, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Jive Introduce 'Software as a Service' Social Business Express

Jive Software are launching a free for 90 days cloud version of their 'Social Business Software' SBS today - a lighter weight hosted solution for those who are grappling with internal infrastructure and resources challenges but need to get up and running with a collaboration environment. ...

Tags: Tenant, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Software-as-a-service, Marketing, Information Technology, Environment, Use Case, Collaboration Environment, Jive SBS, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Salesforce.com rolls out 'Service Cloud,' eyes social networking connections

Salesforce.com rolls out 'Service Cloud,' eyes social networking connectionsA start at last...Salesforce.com does not lead the customer services cloud spade -- and this is really an SaaS play, rather than cloud as such, where they trail RightNow -- but I share their conviction that social networks are key to CRM...

Tags: Sales force management, IT Services, Salesforce.com Inc., social networking

Discussion threads 2009-01-15

Amazon EC2 launches Web-based management console

Amazon EC2 launches Web-based management consoleElasticfox?While this is good news for hard core IE users we've been really impressed with Elasticfox, a Firefox extension for interacting with Amazon EC2.We've been using this for a while to manage our EC2 usage while building out a Silverlight 2 collaboration application called colaab.Bobhttp://colaab.comThe...

Tags: Web, AWS, Amazon EC2, Amazon.com Inc., Web based management console, Web based Management, console

Discussion threads 2009-01-09

New year fast approaching, and so is the next-generation enterprise data warehouse

This has been one of the most pivotal years in the evolution of the enterprise data warehousing EDW market. Every EDW vendor of note has firmly repositioned its go-to-market strategy around the appliance approach, with some also taking tentative steps into what is sure to be a key theme in...

Tags: Appliance, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., I&KM, MPP, Business Intelligence, Databases, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Pricing, Programming Languages, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Web Services, Management, Storage, Hardware, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, James Kobielus

Blog posts 2008-12-24

Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprint

Moving your infrastructure to Amazon Web Services--or any other cloud platform--sounds like a no-brainer in many respects. You can scale up or down as needed and pay only for the computing and storage you use. The big question, however, is this: How exactly does a company migrate its infrastructure? ...

Tags: Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Infrastructure, Helpstream, EC2, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Services, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-18

Handicapping cloud computing: The big picture

Cloud computing isn't going to dominate the tech landscape, but will raise a ruckus for software vendors. Google and Amazon will be cloud computing winners, but the spoils will be relatively small. And there's a race to deliver a cloud developer stack for both consumers and enterprise customers. ...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Google Apps, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Jeffrey Lindsay, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-12

Techout Partners With rPath and Amazon to Scale Its Monitoring Solution

Techout.com, an internet performance engineering firm, helps companies achieve high availability, horizontal scalability and improved response times for mission-critical web-based business transactions and SOAP/REST Web Services. In the past, Techout.com outsourced virtual and physical instances of its Global Virtual Monitoring Appliance to multiple hosting vendors in order to replicate each...

Tags: Monitoring, Amazon.com Inc., rPath, Engineering, Internet, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Case studies 2008-11-07

Cloud computing: Will the financial geeks give it a boost?

The advantages of cloud computing are commonly known: You don't need upfront infrastructure investment; scaling up is relatively easy; and the service provider is likely to be more efficient than your company. But your friendly neighborhood chief financial officer may not get those arguments. Luckily a recent...

Tags: Financial, CFO, Forrester Research Inc., Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-31

Enterprise readiness of Cloud ratcheting up

It may just be time for enterprise customers to take a serious look at cloud computing. Major announcements in the past few days from Microsoft and Amazon have certainly signaled that the on-demand Internet computing model has staying power. And with a long recession looming there may be no better...

Tags: Windows Azure, Cloud Computing, James Staten

Blog posts 2008-10-28