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Do We Need ODBC for the Cloud?

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It is a good sign that Google has decided to expose their Storage API based on Amazon S3 API. Eucalyptus Walrus Storage API is completely compatible with S3. There has been a discussion on standardizing the API for the Cloud Storage. What fueled this discussion further is a poll that ReadWriteWeb.com ran on their site.While [...]

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Is Private Cloud the Future of IT?

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Cloud Computing can be realized through multiple implementation models. One of the implementations that is gaining a lot of interest is the Private Cloud.  This article attempts to look at the key attributes of an ideal Private Cloud and takes a futuristic view of the Private Cloud in an enterprise from the IaaS perspective. Private [...]

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Cloud Computing – What’s in it for you?

The expectations around Cloud Computing are very high. It is one of the most discussed terminologies among CIOs, developers and IT managers. While there is certainly more hype around it than what it really is, Cloud Computing is definitely promising. Gartner calls the year 2010 as the year of Cloud Computing. No doubt! Cloud Computing [...]

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VMforce – What’s in it for us?

Yesterday, SalesForce.com and VMware jointly announced a new PaaS offering called VMforce. This is a huge announcement that has a very strong impact on the Cloud ecosystem. Let’s see what it means to us. The enterprise application development platform is dominated by two obvious platforms – .NET and Java. I qualified my statement with the [...]

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Cloud App and the Unmanned Aircraft System

According to Wikipedia, an unmanned aircraft system or unmanned aerial vehicle is an aircraft that flies without human crew on board the aircraft. … a UAV is defined as a reusable, uncrewed vehicle capable of controlled , sustained, level flight and powered by a jet or reciprocating engine. So, what is the difference between an [...]

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Cloud as the Meta Platform

I recently attempted running Sun Glassfish and JVM on Azure. I am obviously inspired by Steve Marx who posted his ideas around the same. But this exercise of porting non MS stuff to Azure gave me a whole new perspective of the Cloud that I want to share with you. At a very high level, [...]

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How Sun Missed the Bus to the Cloud

It is a known fact that Java never helped Sun in generating enough revenues to keep it going. Commercial App Server vendors like IBM, BEA/Oracle have benefitted more from Java than Sun. Sun got carried away with the initial euphoria around Java created by the developer community. Though Microsoft came out with the unified language [...]

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Cloud and the Consumer – Part II

The first part of ‘Cloud and the Consumer’ series discussed how to move bookmarks to the Cloud and keep them synchronized across browsers. In this article, I will tell you how to keep your calendar, contacts and email in sync with your phone by moving them to the Cloud. Did you ever lose your phone [...]

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Microsoft, Please Don’t Kill Live Mesh!

I am a huge fan of Live Mesh. I started using Live Mesh (during my stint at Microsoft) even before it was announced to the public. Live Mesh was announced at Mix08 in April 2008 amid fanfare by Ray Ozzie. Ozzie passionately positioned Live Mesh as a “single device mesh”. The Sync culture was brought [...]

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Data on the Cloud – Amazon S3

Storage is one of the key resources offered as a Cloud Service. By moving data to the Cloud, there are quite a few benefits. Some of them include: 1. Illusion of unlimited storage – Unlike hosting, Cloud storage will virtually give you access to unlimited storage. You will never run out of space on the [...]

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