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

Cloud computing is a term used to describe a variety of computing models that involve a collection of computers housed in a secure facility accessed through a network connection, typically the Internet. However, cloud computing isn't new, in fact it has been around since the early 1950s.

As John Lewis and Waitrose rolls out Google Apps, cloud computing appears to be finally gaining traction in retail. Retail Week looks at what the technology can do.

What's in Google's SaaS Contract with the City of Los Angeles? Part One.

In a QCon conference presentation on Availability and Consistency or how the CAP theorem ruins it all, Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, examines the tension between availability & consistency in large-scale distributed systems, and presents a model for reasoning about the trade-offs between different solutions.

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.

Law Office of Richard P. Goldberg - Legal & Privacy Issues in Cloud Computing

"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."

Towards the end-goal of a thorough comprehension of the field of cloud computing, and a more rapid adoption from the scientific community, we propose in this paper an ontology of this area which demonstrates a dissection of the cloud into five main layers, and illustrates their interrelations as well as their inter-dependency on preceding technologies. The contribution of this paper lies in being one of the first attempts to establish a detailed ontology of the cloud.

Scalr 1.1.0 - getting in touch

One of the barriers to enterprise adoption of SaaS and cloud services in general isn't security or unreliability; it's simply a cultural mismatch in the language that people use.

Hubs, Spokes and Islands in the Cloud. Interesting article about challanges for cloud computing

Hubs, Spokes and Islands in the Cloud

designed to provide an inexpensive, preconfigured environment for IT professionals to prototype solutions using their existing applications and includes technical components required to create a robust application delivery center in the cloud. Initially, lab users will have access to Citrix® XenApp™ alongside key Citrix C3 technologies such as Citrix Access Gateway™ and Citrix Repeater™ in the AWS cloud environment

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.

Learn basic Amazon SimpleDB (SDB) concepts and explore some of the functions provided by boto, an open source Python library for interacting with SDB. In this "Cloud computing with Amazon Web Services" series, learn about cloud computing using Amazon Web Services. Explore how the services provide a compelling alternative for architecting and building scalable, reliable applications. In this article, learn about the reliable and scalable messaging service provided by Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS).

"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...?

Google Inc slashed its cloud computing service prices on Tuesday, seeking to wrest customers from Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp in the fast-growing market of renting computers and data storage to companies.

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