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Google Compute Engine prices on par with AWS -- for now
Conventional wisdom has Google and AWS locked in the Price War of the Titans with the launch of GCE, but a deeper look reveals a different truth.
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Amazon, Microsoft introduce search as a cloud service
Amazon CloudSearch and Microsoft Bing vie to nail down search as an important...
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AWS Marketplace offers Amazon EC2 customers one-click cloud
Amazon broadens its cloud services with AWS Marketplace, creating a single-cl...
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Microsoft Azure to undercut Amazon Web Services pricing
Microsoft has told big customers that its Azure cloud-based services will cos...
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European Cloud Computing Strategy (ECCS)
The European Cloud Computing Strategy (ECCS) is an initiative established by ...
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shadow IT (shadow information technology)
Shadow IT is hardware or software that is not supported by an organization's ...
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Cloud Industry Forum
The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) is a cloud computing organization in the Unite...
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Cloud security
Cloud security issues and the risks of cloud computing are not well understood today and are one of the biggest barriers to adoption of these services. This section helps CIOs a... More about Cloud security
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shadow IT (shadow information technology)
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cloud computing
- A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that differentiate it from traditional hosting. It is sold on demand, typically by the minute or the ho... -
cloud cartography
- Cloud cartography is a scheme for pinpointing the physical locations of Web servers hosted on a third-party cloud computing service. The goal of cloud ...
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Cloud costs, management and SLAs
Deployed correctly, cloud computing will save you money, but there are lots of caveats to getting it right. And with on-demand, pay-as-you-go cloud services, it's critical to wr... More about Cloud costs, management and SLAs
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European Cloud Computing Strategy (ECCS)
- The European Cloud Computing Strategy (ECCS) is an initiative established by the European Commission to promote the a... -
Cloud Industry Forum
- The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) is a cloud computing organization in the United Kingdom (UK) that seeks to promote transparency and security in clou... -
sharding
- Sharding is a type of database partitioning that is used to separate very large databases the into smaller, faster, more easily managed pieces called data shards.
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Cloud development
Discover how cloud computing development platforms let you fire up and test the upper limits of an application in minutes and shut it down just as fast. This section covers all ... More about Cloud development
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Amazon CloudSearch
- Amazon CloudSearch is a scalable, developer-friendly, cloud-based search service that forms part of Amazon Web Services (AWS). According to Amazon, de... -
accessibility testing
- Accessibility testing is a type of systems testing designed to determine whether individuals with disabilities will be able to use the system in ... -
static testing
- Static testing is a software testing method that involves examination of the program's code and its associated documentation but does not require the progra...
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Cloud infrastructure
Learn about the infrastructure requirements for building a private cloud, also referred to as an internal cloud versus tapping into the resources of a public cloud, or external ... More about Cloud infrastructure
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Amazon CloudSearch
- Amazon CloudSearch is a scalable, developer-friendly, cloud-based search service that forms part of Amazon Web Services (AWS). According to Amazon, de... -
desktop as a service (DaaS)
- Desktop as a service (DaaS), also called virtual desktop or hosted desktop, is the outsourcing of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)... -
European Cloud Computing Strategy (ECCS)
- The European Cloud Computing Strategy (ECCS) is an initiative established by the European Commission to promote the a...
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Building a private cloud infrastructure
Cloud backup
Cloud computing and virtualization
Data center colocation services
Linux and cloud computing
Networking and cloud computing infrastructure planning
Storage in the cloud
VMware cloud computing
WANs for cloud computing
Network and application performance in the cloud
Public cloud computing services
Open source cloud computing
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Cloud applications
Cloud applications allow companies to eliminate the need to install, run and maintain an application in house by outsourcing it to an application provider in the cloud. The most... More about Cloud applications
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shadow IT (shadow information technology)
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SPI model (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
- SPI is an acronym for the most common cloud computing service models, Software as a Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure a... -
cloud bursting
- Cloud bursting is an application deployment model in which an application runs in a private cloud or data center and bursts into a public cloud when the dem...
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Cloud computing use cases
Undertaking a cloud computing project requires an innate understanding of this technology and the advances it has brought about in IT cost management and responsiveness to busin... More about Cloud computing use cases
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cloud analytics
- Cloud analytics is a service model in which one or more key element of data analytics is provided through a public or private cloud. Cloud analytics appl... -
big data (Big Data)
- Big data (also spelled Big Data) is a general term used to describe voluminous amounts of unstructured or semi-structured data that would take too m... -
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
- The Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, low-cost Web-based service designed for on...
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