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"aaS Providers Shifting to Commercial VMs. IaaS (infrastructure as a service) providers have focused on open source and internal technologies to deliver solutions at the lowest possible cost. But that's changing. In the past year, there's been a rapidly growing trend for IaaS providers to add support for major commercial VM formats - especially VMware, but also Hyper-V and XenServer. The reason? To create an easy on-ramp for enterprises. As enterprises virtualize (and in many cases, build private clouds), the IaaS providers know that they need to make interoperability, hybrid, overdrafting, migration as easy as possible. The question is whether that will require commercial offerings (such as VMware's vCloud Datacenter Services, or Microsoft Dynamic Datacenter Alliance), or if conversion tools will be good enough. I tend to think that service providers better make the off-premises experience as identical to the on-premises experience as possible - and I'm not sure conversion will get them there."

Imagine that a Singapore-based sales manager is accessing a CRM application which was once local, but is now based in the Hong Kong data center. But it's end of quarter and the peak load on the Hong Kong CRM application is over the specified capacity limit, so the transaction (running on a virtual machine) is transferred via VMotion to the data center in San Francisco, completed and sent back to the Singapore sales office.

Google has long promoted the idea of cloud computing as safe, secure and productive, but apparently only in its own cloud.

#Consumer cloud #Computing has been around for quite some time now but it was back in 2012 that it saw a massive growth in demand. Read this to know why.

#Consumer cloud #Computing has been around for quite some time now but it was back in 2012 that it saw a massive growth in demand. Read this to know why.

Price cuts from Amazon, Google and Microsoft support predictions that the public cloud computing market is a race to the bottom -- for pricing, that is. Customers will no doubt benefit, but cloud providers who aren't one of those three companies should be prepared for a long, hard war of attrition.

Some OpenSocial apps can be written entirely with client-side JavaScript and HTML, leveraging the container to serve the page and store application data. In this case, the app can scale effortlessly because the only request hitting your server is for the gadget specification which is typically cached by the container anyway. However, there are lots of reasons to consider using your own server: * Allows you to write code in the programing language of your choice. * Puts you in control of how much application data you can store. * Lets you combine data from users on multiple social networks. * Enables interaction with the OpenSocial REST API. Setting up an OpenSocial app that uses a third party server is fairly simple. There are a few gotchas and caveats, but the real issues come up when your app becomes successful - serving millions of users and sending thousands of requests per second. Apps can grow especially fast on social networks, so before you launch your next social app, you should think about how to scale up quickly if your app takes off. Unfortunately, scaling is a complex problem that's hard to solve quickly and expensive to implement. Luckily, there are several companies that provide cloud computing resources-places you can store data or run processes on virtual machines. These computing solutions manage huge infrastructures so you can focus on your applications and let the "cloud" handle all the requests and data at scale. This tutorial focuses on a simple photo-sharing app that uses a third-party server to host photos and associated metadata. If this app is going to host millions of images and support many requests per second, we won't be able to run it on a single dedicated host. We'll break the app down and analyze the interactions between the OpenSocial App and the back end server. Then we'll implement the app in the cloud, first using Google App Engine, then leveraging Amazon's S3 data storage service. Finally, we'll look at s

Of course it is quicker to get the short term online loans when your expenses go out of the budget. But meeting the lump sum repayment of these finances doesn't fall under the budget of many individuals.

Does your bad credit often hold you back to avail a loan? In order to keep up with the bills, most of the people rely on taking out short term external cash assistance but end up falling into the debt cycle.

Six years ago, $23-billion (Rs 1.42 lakh crore) German software major SAP, best known for its business software products (enterprise resource planning or ERP in geekspeak), faced a problem: it was still king in ERP but didn't have a strong presence on the cloud, which was seen as the future of computing.

For all intents and purposes the Australian cloud computing market appears to be thriving. But while the pundits continue to claim it's the way of the future, tech infrastructure run on businesses' premises is far from dead.

The Cloud computing and Data Center has increased the amount of information that is being passed across the network, from one location to another. Internet connectivity has always been important, but its importance has increasingly become important, as bandwidth intensive applications have moved to the cloud. Find out the right provider which will best serve the interest of your Data Center and provide you the best speed at the best price for your needs.

Cloud computing is nothing but a system that allows you to access your files and documents from anywhere in the world. Mobile applications have been a part of the revolution, and their presence on the cloud is of significant help to the developers. In this post you will see top 5 cloud based data hosting companies that assist developers in effectively extracting the benefits of cloud based hosting of mobile applications.

Limelight Content Storage is a tool that is employed to speed the delivery of your rich content to the end user and hosts it in the Cloud. Customers today are drawn to media rich websites but these same customers also have very high expectations of websites and do not have the patience to wait for slow video buffering or error messages. With so much business competition out there you need to ensure that your delivery is not detracting clients. If you use Limelight Content Storage your data will have a shorter distance to travel to reach your potential customer.

Parallelism and performance go hand-in-hand. But achieving maximum performance can be a balancing act, as Intel senior engineer James Reinders explains to Dr. Dobb's editor in chief Jonathan Erickson.

Interesting view on depermeterisation. Hoff's view is that the protected assets are in smaller clumps and still have a perimeter.

Informational self-determination refers to the ability of individuals to exercise personal control over the collection, use and disclosure of their personal information by others. It forms the basis of modern privacy laws and practices around the world. [...] At the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC), we have long advocated a strong role for individuals in managing their personal information, not just by exercising their privacy rights under Ontario law, but also by becoming better informed and using privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). [...] This paper explores what will be possible if proper digital identity services are deployed and the full power of Cloud computing is realized.