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by Scott Wilson on March 5, 2010
CEO Steve Ballmer has claimed as much in a speech yesterday at the University of Washington, stating "This is a bet for the company. For the cloud, we're all in."
In light of some of ...
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by Scott Wilson on January 6, 2010
Even as certain parts of the US government move toward adopting cloud computing solutions, other parts are limbering up their regulatory trigger fingers, according to this report from legislative watc...
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by Scott Wilson on December 19, 2009
You've probably already had enough of the dreary definitions debate that has been happening around the sidelines of the new utility computing movements, where dreadfully pedantic pundits spar over...
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by Scott Wilson on December 15, 2009
Amazon is so far ahead of the pack when it comes to the ultimate vision of utility computing that some of their recent moves toward positioning and expanding their Amazon Web Services cloud offering m...
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by Scott Wilson on November 20, 2009
Google has open sourced their Chrome Operating System project as Chromium OS, providing a sudden wealth of detail on the long-feared and revered operating system effort by the Mountain View company. ...
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by Scott Wilson on November 17, 2009
Microsoft launched Azure, it's cloud computing platform entry, today at PDC in LA. No real surprises to the announcement that I can see, although the company took the opportunity to signal its intent...
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by Scott Wilson on October 27, 2009
Amazon announced the introduction of another new addition to the ever-growing collection of Amazon Web Services (AWS) today, a database product called, appropriately enough, Relational Database Servic...
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by Scott Wilson on September 15, 2009
Amazon has been making efforts of late to improve the appearance of security in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing offerings to attract enterprise customers, notably by introducing "Vi...
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by Scott Wilson on September 1, 2009
Following on the announcement last week that they would offer Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) instances for the peace of mind of enterprise customers, Amazon today introduces an additional security featur...
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by Scott Wilson on August 26, 2009
Perhaps reacting to recent intimations that security, or the inability to adequately quantify security, in cloud environments is a substantial block to enterprise adoption of cloud computing services,...
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by Scott Wilson on August 21, 2009
There is a new and somewhat unexpected threat to the growth and adoption of cloud computing services: performance and availability issues. Identified in a recently released study by Australian researc...
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by Scott Wilson on July 15, 2009
Microsoft has released the pricing and SLA commitments for their Azure cloud offering, currently in limited beta testing and scheduled to be generally available for commercial use this November.
The ...
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by Scott Wilson on July 3, 2009
Pretty much every cloud service failure these days results in a predictable volley of coverage; the unbelievers crow over another purported example of the perfidy of over-hyped utility computing solut...
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by Scott Wilson on June 15, 2009
On the first read-through of this New York Times' article on IBM's plans to entice the enterprise with cloud computing offerings, you might be pardoned for simply assuming that Big Blue has de...
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by Scott Wilson on May 22, 2009
Amazon has removed another significant obstacle to enterprise adoption of Amazon Web Services with the introduction of AWS Import/Export to allow easier movement of large datasets in and out of the se...
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by Scott Wilson on April 21, 2009
According to diverse media outlets, VMware is set to fire the next shot in the virtualization wars today by announcing their new VSphere product, which promises to allow businesses to create a "p...
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by Scott Wilson on April 2, 2009
YAAWS... I think it's got a certain ring to it, don't you. At the rate Amazon Web Services are rolling out new products, I feel the need for an acronym to lighten the typing load. It looks as ...
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by Scott Wilson on March 23, 2009
Mary Jo Foley has posted some excerpts of a quick Q&A between herself and Julius Sinkevicius, Director of Product Management for Windows Server on her blog, excerpts which seem to indicate that Mi...
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by Scott Wilson on February 25, 2009
Google's cloud-based application platform, AppEngine, has been in testing with free, but limited, instances available to developers to get a feel for the service and its capabilities for nearly a ...
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by Scott Wilson on February 24, 2009
First, an apology: I am a slave to alliteration. I could also have gone with "Cloud casts its own shadow" or "Clunky cloud crumbles" so really, I think you have to thank me for wha...
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by Scott Wilson on February 13, 2009
There was a lot of commentary on the IBM announcement that it would be offering popular (well, enterprise-popular) server applications via Amazon Web Services (AWS), but I think the rest of us pundits...
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by Scott Wilson on February 12, 2009
IBM announced today that they will be providing packaged EC2 machine images of some of their most popular business software packages, including DB2, Websphere, and Informix Dynamics, for use on Amazon...
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by Scott Wilson on February 9, 2009
Not long after Google went goofy last Monday (although the issue, somewhat surprisingly, continued through the week), reader Shou'Shou brought my attention to the fact that Google has in fact ma...
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by Scott Wilson on January 19, 2009
What with one thing and another last week, I didn't get around to mentioning that Apple finally took a baby step toward the online office applications market by announcing the development of iWork...
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by Scott Wilson on November 25, 2008
In the Cloud Computing Gold Rush of '08, IBM has decided to play the storekeep rather than the prospector, and stick with the reliable business of selling pickaxes to all parties instead of grubbi...
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by Scott Wilson on November 18, 2008
Amazon Web Services today announced the release of Cloudfront, a poor man's global content distribution network deeply integrated with the existing Simple Storage Service (S3) offering from the co...
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by Scott Wilson on October 27, 2008
As expected, during his keynote address at the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) in LA, chief software architect Ray Ozzie unveiled the company's anticipated cloud solution: ...
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by Scott Wilson on October 23, 2008
Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) service, the virtual processing companion piece to its Simple Storage Service (S3), is officially coming out of beta status today, a transition heralded with...
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by Scott Wilson on October 9, 2008
Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service) started out the year plagued with widely publicized outages and provoked a significant dither in the blogosphere over the future of SaaS and cloud-based servic...
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by Scott Wilson on October 8, 2008
I don't know of many companies which don't work very hard to establish a sort of amicable brand identity with potential customers, and Google is no different. But there is a danger in taking t...
