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• Platform as a Service: Google and Force.com

  Discover how the Force.com cloud, Google's App Engine and other structured cloud computing solutions use cloud middleware and database tools to integrate applications into their platforms. Continue Reading

• The IT clouds: IBM, Microsoft and Sun

  Find out how cloud computing solutions from major IT vendors, such as IBM Computing on Demand, can offer increased compatibility to enterprises already working closely with the vendor's products. Continue Reading

• Cloud computing skepticism: IT security and compliance

  Although cloud computing has many potential benefits, IT pros remain skeptical about the cloud's viability. An expert explores whether security and compliance concerns in the cloud could hinder the viability of cloud computing. Continue Reading

• Amazon's EC2 and the open source cloud projects

  Discover the benefits of the open cloud computing solution, such as Amazon's EC2, and how open source cloud environments like Eucalyptus can provide support for EC2 web services and applications. Continue Reading

• Cloud computing standards: Deploying and scaling services without lock-in

  Once the hurdle of having software enabled as a service is crossed, application interoperability becomes a non-issue, but what happens once a software service is incapable of handling demand with its initial hardware provisions? This inevitably ... Continue Reading

• Backup to the compute cloud

  William Brogden discusses the essential trends involved in the wide range of distributed computing configurations that cloud computing can accomplish.Continue Reading

• Cloud computing challenges: What do they mean for vCloud, Cloud Center?

  Cloud computing is fraught with challenges, including proper definition, interoperability and common standards and security. An expert examines these challenges and how their impact on initiatives like VMware's vCloud.Continue Reading

• How cloud computing will change capacity management

  Capacity management in IT departments has been informed by the limitations of traditional data centers. Cloud computing will change the ball-game, allowing IT managers to deal with the new rivers of data that would overflow the traditional data ...Continue Reading

• Code sample illustrates how to write Azure applications for the cloud

  In a series of blog entries on MSDN, Microsoft's Maor David-Pur has given developers a concrete, step-by-step Azure tutorial geared to experienced .NET developers.Continue Reading

• Cloud computing and application security: Issues and risks

  Contrary to popular belief, moving applications to the cloud won't make your application security responsibilities disappear. Learn more about the misconceptions around app security in the cloud.Continue Reading

• Introduction to Windows Azure for developers

  What is Windows Azure? This introduction to Azure will explain what Microsoft's cloud OS really is, how it's put together and what that means for you as a developer. Learn how to build, test and maintain software as a service (SaaS) using the Azure ...Continue Reading

• Staying profitable in the face of cloud computing, SaaS

  Cloud computing and SaaS will most definitely change the marketplace VARs operate in; you can't afford to ignore the signs. Learn what strategies you can put in place now to avoid obsolescence.Continue Reading