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Trust is the Secret to Cloud Computing Success
In: Data
15 Jul 2009Last week had me working long hours with little sleep focusing what companies really care about when dealing with a Cloud based solution. There are of course many objections, misconceptions, and opinions about whether “Enterprise 2.0” is ready for prime time. Ask any CIO and they can probably rattle off a list of obstacles without [...]
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- Tags: Amazon, Azure, Data, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Office Web
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.
Hosting provider Rackspace [...]
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- Tags: Downtime, Google
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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- Tags: E2Conf, EMC, Google, Security
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- Canadian Privacy Commissioner: Facebook Violates Privacy Laws
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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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