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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.

provides clients with access to development and production instances of IBM DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, WebSphere Portal Server, Lotus Web Content Management, WebSphere sMash and Novell's SUSE Linux operating system software in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Today we are introducing Amazon Elastic MapReduce , our new Hadoop-based processing service. I'll spend a few minutes talking about the generic MapReduce concept and then I'll dive in to the details of this exciting new service.

The Fair Scheduler gives each user a configurable share of the cluster when he/she has running jobs, but assigns these resources to other users when the user is inactive.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

This document is intended to initiate a conversation that will bring together the emerging cloud computing community (both cloud users and cloud providers) around a core set of principles. We believe that these core principles are rooted in the belief that cloud computing should be as open as all other IT technologies.

1,190 nodes installed from bare metal to all done in 15 minutes.

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations by Kevin L. Jackson

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. This article introduces you to the virtual servers provided by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Learn how EC2 can help you configure your applications' computing requirements on the fly and adjust capacity based on demand.

In a web-driven world, datasets are larger than ever before - with "web scale" becoming the term of choice to describe the ultimate size of problems.

Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.

"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...?

What are cloud services uniquely good for and why? After all, CIOs aren't going to leverage online services offered on demand just because they're available, but for compelling business reasons.

Cloud computing is not a complex adoption anymore. Today, it serves as a blueprint for efficient computing via centralized storage, memory processing, and ample bandwidth. It will not be an exaggeration if we say that cloud computing is the next big thing in the IT world.

Fastblue Communications, partnering with RapidScale, provides our clients with best in breed SMB cloud services. Our CloudOffice product will replace your physical IT Infrastructure with Cloud services such as Cloud Server and Cloud Storage. The CloudOffice product can support your business with Office 2010, Microsoft Exchange 2010, SharePoint, and Cloud Servers/IaaS. A Representative from Fastblue is always available to discuss how we can help grow your business and answer any questions you may have about our products or services.

Cloud computing is growing in use at federal agencies, according to a new survey that found that military, intelligence and civilian groups are rapidly adopting the cloud.

US retail giant Amazon will set up a data center to pilot its cloud computing services in collaboration with enterprises in China in early 2014.

Federal Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has released a series of guides for small businesses looking to use cloud-based services.

The Federal Government's Commission of Audit has chastised the Government for being slow to adopt cloud computing and urged the adoption of a mandatory 'cloud first' policy for all low risk, generic information and communication technology services.

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