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What Is Cloud Computing?

My recent post on how sick I am of people being confused by the basic concept of cloud computing quickly brought out the comments on “what cloud is” and “what cloud is not.” And the truth is, it’s a little

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Amazon CloudFormation: Model Driven Automation For The Cloud

You may have heard about Amazon’s newest offering they announced today, CloudFormation.  It’s the new hotness, but I see a lot of confusion in the Twitterverse about what it is and how it fits into the landscape of IaaS/PaaS/Elastic Beanstalk/etc.

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salesforce.com – Time To Start Caring?

So this week, salesforce.com (the world’s #4 fastest growing company, says Fortune Magazine) bought Ruby PaaS shop Heroku, announced database.com as a cloud database solution, and announced remedyForce, IT config management from BMC. That’s quite the hat trick. salesforce.com has

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Microsoft Azure for Dummies – or for Smarties?

What is Microsoft Azure? Here’s a clear explanation of this new cloud computing product and how it compares to Amazon and Google.

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Cloud Headaches?

The industry is abuzz with people who are freaked out about the outages that Amazon and other cloud vendors have had.  “Amazon S3 Crash Raises Doubts Among Cloud Customers,” says InformationWeek! This is because people are going into cloud computing

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