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Deploying a cloud computing architecture can mean greater server and compute capacity when you need it and without the costs and management headaches of owning all the hardware. But a hosted computing model can bring cost, management and staffing challenges as well. Get news and the latest research on the advantages of a cloud computing architecture to create on-demand compute and server capacity, reducing server hardware costs and maintenance and providing greater flexibility, as well as the challenges of outsourcing computing services, including vendor lock-in and lack of in-house expertise. This topic covers Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon EC2, on-demand computing, Infrastructure as a Service, IaaS, Amazon Web Services, grid computing, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, Joyent, Sun Cloud, HP Flexible Computing Services, IBM Blue Cloud, Bungee Connect, Etelos, Coghead, Salesforce.com Force.com and LongJump.
IN THIS TOPIC:  NEWS (81) , EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE (4) , VIDEO (3) , REFERENCE & LEARNING (4) , DOWNLOADS (5) , DEFINITIONS (8)

  NEWS: 1 - 3 of 81
Are cloud computing vendors ignoring IT pros' concerns?
SearchCloudComputing.com | 04 Dec 2009
ARTICLE - A survey from Forrester shows that uncertainty over cloud computing security and transparency remains strong. Are cloud vendors getting the message?
Verizon offers lessons in cloud computing
SearchCloudComputing.com | 04 Dec 2009
ARTICLE - This week: Verizon offers consultation on moving to the cloud; IBM's Tivoli now available on Amazon Web Services.
Cloud computing is ready for personal health records, healthcare is not
SearchCloudComputing.com | 02 Dec 2009
ARTICLE - Storing healthcare data in the cloud could revolutionize patient management and cut costs, but the disarray of healthcare informatics is one of several obstacles in the way.
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  EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE: 1 - 3 of 4
Protocols for cloud services - Part 2
Submitted By: SearchSOA.com | 03 Jun 2009
TIP - This article takes a look at JavaSpace and Hadoop, two different technologies that distribute computing jobs to cloud computing resources, manage it, and get results back.
Getting started with Amazon EC2
Submitted By: SearchCloudComputing.com | 14 May 2009
TIP - With all the hype surrounding Amazon's EC2 and Web Services, it's hard to find independent advice on how to start out. Here is a primer on stepping into the cloud.
Cloud computing challenges: What do they mean for vCloud, Cloud Center?
29 Apr 2009
TIP - Cloud computing poses challenges, including a lack of definition, common standards, and security. An expert explores these challenges in this tip.
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  VIDEO: 1 - 3 of 3
The benefits of being a Salesforce.com customer
SearchCloudComputing.com | 20 Nov 2009
VIDEO - Jack Miller, the CTO of a real estate brokerage in Austin, Texas, discusses the benefits of working with Salesforce.com.
Jeff Kaplan talks Salesforce Chatter at Dreamforce 2009
SearchCloudComputing.com | 20 Nov 2009
VIDEO - Jeff Kaplan of THINKStrategies gave us a few moments of his time at Dreamforce 2009 to discuss the goals of Chatter, Salesforce.com's new collaboration technology service.
Liquid Web opens 'cloud'-enabling data center
SearchDataCenter.com | 12 Nov 2009
VIDEO - A Web hoster will run Storm, it own cloud computing platform. at its new data center in Michigan. Storm will compete with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and other offerings.
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  REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 3 of 4
Cloud computing management and monitoring primer
Steve Cimino, Assistant Editor | 13 Nov 2009
PRIMER - Organize, outline and oversee your cloud computing services with this guide on cloud management and monitoring.
Cloud Computing e-book
12 Oct 2009
E-BOOK - This e-book examines the case for moving to cloud computing as well as issues involved with using the cloud as an application development platform, test bed and storage solution.
Amazon Web Services product directory
SearchCloudComputing.com | 18 Aug 2009
PRODUCT DIRECTORY - Discover the products, from Amazon and third-party companies such as CA, IBM and Oracle, available in the cloud to Amazon Web Services customers.
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  DOWNLOADS: 1 - 3 of 5
Cloud management pricing and licensing
Published by: SearchCloudComputing.com | 13 Nov 2009
PODCAST - Learn about the costs associated with cloud management tools in part two of our podcast with Andi Mann, vice president of research with Enterprise Management Associates.
Cloud computing management overview
Published by: SearchCloudComputing.com | 13 Nov 2009
PODCAST - Learn about the essentials of cloud computing management in this podcast with Andi Mann, vice president of research with Enterprise Management Associates.
Parallels aims bare-metal virtualization hypervisor at cloud computing market
Published by: SearchServerVirtualization.com | 09 Oct 2009
PODCAST - Parallels goes up against VMware and Citrix in the bare-metal virtualization market with its new Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal hypervisor, which targets hosting providers. (SearchServerVirtualization.com)
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  DEFINITIONS: 1 - 3 of 8
cloud cartography
14 Oct 2009
WORD - 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 cartography is to map the service provider's infrastructure in order to ...
hybrid cloud
15 May 2009
WORD - What is a hybrid cloud? A hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment in which an organization provides and manages some resources in-house and has others provided externally. For example, an organization might use a ...
public cloud
15 May 2009
WORD - What is a public cloud? A public cloud is one based on the standard cloud computing model, in which a service provider makes resources, such as applications and storage, available to the general public over the Internet. ...
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