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| Cloud computing hysteria paralyzed by bolt of reality Compliance? No, we do Cmplynz
Interop 2008 We’ve seen more than enough folks all atwitter and wetting their shorts over cloud computing at Interop 2008 Las Vegas. So it was a bit of a surprise to catch a panel at the show with Google and Amazon reps discussing what keeps businesses from embracing the technology.
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| Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog | Relevance: 15.53 |
| The new economics of computing Are we missing the point about cloud computing? That question has been rattling around in my mind for the last few days, as the chatter about the role of the cloud in business IT has intensified. The discussion to date has largely had a retrospective cast, focusing on the costs and benefits of shifting existing IT functions and operations from in-house data centers into the cloud. How can the clou [..] |
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| Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog | Relevance: 14.86 |
| Alan Turing, cloud computing and IT's future The business computing site Internet.com asked me to write an essay speculating on what the corporate IT landscape may look like ten years from now. The result, "IT in 2018: from Turing's machine to the computing cloud," is available now as a free pdf download - though registration is required. Here's how the essay begins: In 1936, as the clouds of war gathered once again over Europe, a 24-year-ol [..] |
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| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 14.54 |
| Cloud Computing Reality Check: Gmail Goes Down For A Day Take note before jumping on the cloud bandwagon: even relatively mature cloud applications like Google's (GOOG) gmail -- which unlike the many cloud upstarts already has a track record several years long -- still suffer fro [..] |
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| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 13.52 |
Ray Ozzie Gets It...But Mesh Won't Save Microsoft  Will Microsoft's (MSFT) new cloud-computing framework, Mesh, prevent the PC software titan from getting disrupted by the move toward cloud computing? Will Mesh allow Microsoft to kill Google [..] |
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| Nerdblog.Net | Relevance: 13.50 |
| AT&T joining cloud computing field
(CNET) CNET - AT&T is joining the burgeoning field of cloud computing service providers that offer networking and storage services, according to a report late Monday on the Wall Street Journal's Web site. YahooTechNews [..] |
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| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 13.46 |
| Amazon Welcomes Microsoft To The Cloud (AMZN, MSFT) Microsoft's (MSFT) turn to join the cloud game. The company today announced a deal with Amazon (AMZN) to run Windows Server on the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). A smart move for Redmond. Cloud computing mania may be [..] |
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| Nerdblog.Net | Relevance: 13.45 |
| Rackspace IPO: Wall Street does cloud computing
(CNET) CNET - Wall Street gave a nod to cloud computing Friday as San Antonio, Texas-based Rackspace Hosting opened for trading today on the New York Stock Exchange following its initial public offering Thursday. YahooTechNews [..] |
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| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 13.28 |
| Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog | Relevance: 13.13 |
| The Economist tours the cloud The new issue of The Economist features a good primer on cloud computing, written by Ludwig Siegele, which looks at trends in data centers, software, networked devices, and IT economics and speculates about the broader implications for businesses and nations. A free pdf of the entire report is also available. Siegele notes that the hype surrounding the term "cloud computing" may have peaked alread [..] |
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| Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog | Relevance: 12.93 |
| Further musings on the network effect and the cloud Tim O'Reilly, in a comment on my earlier post about how he overstates the importance of the network effect, writes: "... you failed to address my main point, namely that cloud computing is likely to be a low-margin business, with the high margin applications found elsewhere." Let me try to correct that oversight. O'Reilly is here using "cloud computing" in the narrow sense of offering for-fee acce [..] |
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| Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog | Relevance: 12.53 |
| EMC's "very massive" storage cloud As Amazon struggles today with the first big outage to afflict its popular S3 data-storage service, it looks like it will also soon be facing a big new competitor. The storage giant EMC looks like it's gearing up for a major move into "the cloud." Like other traditional IT component suppliers, EMC sees cloud computing as both threat and opportunity. On the one hand, it could put a large dent into [..] |
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| Boy Genius Report | Relevance: 12.23 |
Steve Ballmer announces Windows Cloud OS  “Developers, developers, developers, developers!” Steve Ballmer has just announced limited details about a new Windows Operating System: Cloud. Separate from the upcoming and highly anticipated Windows 7, Cloud is geared toward developers to aid them in writing web-based or cloud-computing applications. While Microsoft has primarily been a desktop-based software company, it is opening [..] |
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| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 12.23 |
| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 11.60 |
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