Posts Tagged ‘ Hosting-as-a-Service ’

Confidence in Cloud Computing Expected to Surge Economic Growth

The dynamic and flexible nature of cloud computing, software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service may help organizations in their recovery from the current economic downturn, according to more than two thirds of IT decision leaders and makers who participated in a recent annual study by Vanson Bourne, an International Research Firm[ READ MORE ]

Four Key Categories for Cloud Computing

When it comes to cloud computing, concerns about control and security have dominated recent discussions. While it was once assumed that all computing resources could be had from outside, now it is going towards a vision of a data center magically transformed for easy connections to internal and external IT resources[ READ MORE ]

Zuora Releases Z-Commerce

The first external service (SaaS) that actually understands the complex billing models of the cloud providers (which account for monthly subscription fees as well as automated metering, pricing and billing for products, bundles and highly individualized/specific configurations) arrived in mid-June in the form of Zuora's Z-Commerce[ READ MORE ]

Don’t Underestimate a Small Start in Cloud Computing

Although many predict that cloud computing will forever alter the economics and strategic direction of corporate IT, it is likely that the impact of the cloud will continue to be largely from small projects[ READ MORE ]

Cloud Computing in 2010

A recent research study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project released on June 11 found that most people expect to "access software applications online and share and access information through the use of remote server networks, rather than depending primarily on tools and information housed on their individual, personal computers" by [ READ MORE ]

The Impact of Leveraging a Cloud Delivery Model

In a recent discussion about the positive shift in the Cloud Computing discourse towards actionable steps as opposed to philosophical rants in definitions, .NET Developer's Journal issued a list of five things not to do[ READ MORE ]

What Cloud APIs Reveal about the Budding Cloud Market

Although Cloud Computing remains hard to define, one of its essential characteristics is pragmatic access to virtually unlimited network, compute and storage resources[ READ MORE ]

Cloud Computing Business Models on the Horizon

Everyone is wondering what will follow SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, so here is a tutorial on some of the emerging cloud computing business models on the horizon[ READ MORE ]

Public vs. Private Options in the Cloud

The demand for cloud computing is perpetually increasing, which means that business and technology managers need to clear up any questions they have about the differences between public and private clouds—and quickly at that[ READ MORE ]

A Guide to Windows® Azure Platform Billing

Understanding billing for Windows® Azure Platform can be a bit daunting, so here is a brief guide, including useful definitions and explanations[ READ MORE ]

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud Platform EC2 Gets Windows Server Customers from Microsoft

Amazon has launched an initiative for Microsoft customers to bring their Windows Server licenses to Amazons EC2, Elastic Compute Cloud Platform[ READ MORE ]

Heightening Cloud Security in Your Enterprise

The responsibility of securing corporate information in the cloud falls upon the enterprise, and enterprises, as cloud consumers, can greatly improve cloud security[ READ MORE ]

Media Streaming Added to Amazon CloudFront

Amazon Web Services LLC unveiled media streaming for its content delivery service, Amazon CloudFront[ READ MORE ]

Scaling Storage and Analysis of Data Using Distributed Data Grids

One of the most important new methods for overcoming performance bottlenecks for a large class of applications is data parallel programming on a distributed data grid[ READ MORE ]

Answers to Your Questions on Cloud Connectors

Jeffrey Schwartz and Michael Desmond, both editors of Redmond Developer News, recently sat down with corporate vice president of Microsoft's Connected Systems Division, Robert Wahbe, at the recent Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) to talk about Microsoft Azure and its potential impact on the developer ecosystem at Microsoft[ READ MORE ]

Breaking Down the Fundamentals of Cloud Computing

Following in the footsteps of industry buzz words like utility computing, clustering and virtualization, cloud computing is on the tips of everyone’s tongues lately[ READ MORE ]

Launch of Azure

After months of media and technology buzz, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Azure, often described as “Windows in the Cloud,” would be launched on January 1, [ READ MORE ]

Answers to Your Questions on Cloud Connectors for Leading Platforms like Windows Azure Platform

Jeffrey Schwartz and Michael Desmond, both editors of Redmond Developer News, recently sat down with corporate vice president of Microsoft's Connected Systems Division, Robert Wahbe, at the recent Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) to talk about Microsoft Azure and its potential impact on the developer ecosystem at Microsoft[ READ MORE ]

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