Archive for the 'PAAS' Category

OnDemand Speed Links 21 December 2009

December 21, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

E-Books in the Cloud
Will the use of the cloud for storage of E-Books  lead to even greater adoption of cloud storage in the coming years?

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Microsoft Makes Windows Azure Push

October 26, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

Microsoft has recently made a strong push into consolidating mind share amongst Cloud Developers with a relaunched Windows Azure Platform developer portal and targeted adverts on LinkedIn and other social networking sites.

Microsoft technical strategist  Steve Marx outlines the  Windows Azure Platform for developers in the following video.

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SaaS Bill of Rights To Be Published

October 9, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

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The Altimeter Group’s Jeremiah Owyang and Ray Wang will publish a SaaS Customer’s Bill of Rights next week. The Bill Of Rights is a collaborative effort that has input from a veritable who’s who of SaaS providers and thought leaders.

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Q&A with Rackspace Cloud’s Emil Sayegh

September 22, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

The Rackspace Cloud

San Antonio based Rackspace is a global web host and cloud provider known for their high end managed hosting and dedicated services. The company delivers managed services to over 16,000 customers from eight data centers worldwide.

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OnDemand Speed Links 26 August 2009

August 26, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

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Amazon Rolls Out Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon today introduced its Virtual Private Cloud Service. This service allows customers to connect resources within the AWS Cloud, to resources within their own your own datacenter using encrypted IPsec VPN connections

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Fed Clarifies Cloud Computing Plans

August 12, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

Up until the Obama administrations appointment of Vivek Kundra as the Federal CIO, the Fed had not presented a comprehensive vision of its Cloud Computing plans. This changes with the General Services Administration (GSA) recently released RFQ (Request for Quotation) for Cloud Computing Services.

The GSA RFQ focuses on Infrastructure as a Service with an emphasis on:

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