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On July 2nd, the Google App Engine experienced about six (6) hours of downtime in what many would defend as an inevitable reality of Cloud Computing. Even the Apps Engine Status Page was down for atleast four hours, so people looking for an update were left without a confirmation or denial of the problem.
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Clouds Are Still On-Premise (For Somebody)
In: Conferences| General
23 Jun 2009At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference last night, Google showed the picture of a “Real Google Cloud” below. There was no mention of where it is physically located, but the sheer size and scale makes the “Google Cloud” seem really, really heavy (once you think about how many datacenters Google really has).
The Google presentation showed that while [...]
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Enterprises and Cloud Computing - Where do we start?
In: General
22 Jun 2009Say “Cloud Computing” to any random group of people at your organization and you will have enough definitions, interpretations, and expectations to ensure that no one is really sure what it means anymore. It is just “Web 2.0” technologies, hosted environments, virtualization, community and “crowdsourcing”, or just the next step in the continual evolution of the computing?
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- Tags: contribute, digital natives, industry
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Ashish C. Morzaria is a Senior Product Manager at SAP, Business Objects Division. He is responsible for an enterprise product line that leverages emerging strategies such as Enterprise 2.0, collaboration, and decision making. This blog is not endorsed by SAP nor does it constitute any official communication of SAP.
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