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This post was written by Mulah Johnson
Signing up to Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) is simple but integrating it into your corporate computing environment is less so. One of the major drawbacks to Google Docs has to be that you need an internet connection, and a reasonably fast one at that, in order to do anything. If your requirements are relatively rudimentary then Google Apps could be right for your company – but if not – there are other, far better, solutions out there.
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Microsoft Corp. intends its new Windows Azure Services Platform to be a serious cloud computing platform for a broad range of developers and scenarios. There’s a tremendous amount of capability being presented in the Azure CTP (Community Technology Preview), and there’s more to come. It goes beyond simple Web hosting to a flexible architecture designed to automatically enlist additional resources in response to demand. It currently looks a lot like an ASP.Net application, although it has some restrictions and additional features.
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Amazon S3 is dirt cheap. User can transfer files between machines using his/her Amazon S3. There is no limit to the number of computers you can back up using Amazon S3. Amazon S3 may take a little bit of effort to set up, since you have to sign up for an account and find your keys, but the savings is worth the extra few steps. And you’ll never have to worry about data loss on your machines again. Bottom line: recommended.
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Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud isn’t abstract – it’s real and impressive. EC2 enables any developer to leverage Amazon’s own benefits of massive scale with no up-front investment or performance compromises. Being elastic it instantly responds unexpectedly changing computing requirements. EC2 security groups make it very simple to partition your application environment at no additional cost. With EC2 security groups, you can completely isolate every tier, even internally to the cloud. Based on Xen EC2 security relies on VM isolation. There is still a possibility that Xen has security holes that would allow inter-VM communication.
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Zoho CloudSQL is the first technology that allows customers to interact with their data on the cloud, from another cloud application or from an on-premises one through real SQL. You can think of CloudSQL as a linking mechanism for things like QuickBooks or any application that wants to talk to and from Zoho data. Despite being so confident on services, Zoho didn’t go for a wider distribution and a better promotion. But one thing is for sure, it has every potential to offer us with a richer experience.
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Cloud Computing: Web-Based Applications That Change the Way You Work and Collaborate Online by Michael Miller is an excellent introduction to this phenomenon within the software industry. Written using a style that takes the reader on a gentle journey through a “brief history of computing,” explaining where we have been and why we’ll be living and working in the clouds in our future, the book is an excellent introduction. The book is not a deep technical book on cloud-based architectures and how to implement those architectures using .NET or J2EE technologies.
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Apple is expected to unveil a new suite of web-based applications that play off of iWork. They will primarily be extensions of their desktop counterparts not replacements. As Weintraub notes, the entire iWork suite that Apple currently offers, including iMovie, will be given core functionality additions online. The iWork Cloud, and mobile access through devices like the iPhone and iPod touch. Many people believe cloud services are the future of computing, but Apple’s official foray into the modern world of cloud based services, Mobile Me, didn’t paint the concept in a very positive light.
