Cloud Computing

This is a good argument to encourage at global level usage of cloud computing, because it is globally a sustainability problem.

"Preview: Chef 0.8 and the Opscode Platform"

"Encrypting Ephemeral Storage and EBS Volumes on Amazon EC2"

"The entry of the Google App Engine into the "Data Stores in the Cloud" arena on April 7, 2008 increases the number of high-profile Storage as a Service (StaaS?) players to three. Here's are brief highlights of the three entrants' features in the order of their arrival as beta versions" [Note: Not updated since 2008-05-06?]

More than a year old, but still useful...?

Exclusive Q&A with Shelton Shugar, SVP Cloud Computing, Yahoo!
Ultimately, we believe that advancement in cloud computing technology will be driven by open source initiatives where large communities of engineers can collaborate and develop new code for the new applications and demands posed by the cloud model

IntelePeer Inc., showcase Communications as a Service (CaaS) Voice 2.0 innovations at the ITEXPO

Google Talk can help you with quick translations, or even translate your chats in real-time!

Communications-as-a-Service (CaaS), a hosted on-demand model for adding communications capabilities to applications and services without up-front capital costs.

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The emergence of the networked information economy is unleashing two powerful forces. On one hand, easy access to high-speed networks is empowering individuals. People can now discover and consume information resources and services globally from their homes. Further, new social computing approaches are inviting people to share in the creation and edification of information on the Internet. Empowerment of the individual-or consumerization-is reducing the individual's reliance on traditional brick-and-mortar institutions in favor of new and emerging virtual ones. Second, ubiquitous access to high-speed networks along with network standards, open standards and content, and techniques for virtualizing hardware, software, and services is making it possible to leverage scale economies in unprecedented ways. What appears to be emerging is industrial-scale computing-a standardized infrastructure for delivering computing power, network bandwidth, data storage and protection, and services. Consumerization and industrialization beg the question "Is this the end of the middle?"; that is, what will be the role of "enterprise" IT in the future? Indeed, the bigger question is what will become of all of our intermediating institutions? This volume examines the impact of IT on higher education and on the IT organization in higher education.