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Cloud Computing
What is Cloud Computing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing


Amazon Offers Windows, SQL Server Cloud Computing Option
Oct. 01, 2008
Starting later this fall Amazon.com will begin letting customers run their Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server database software using its Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud computing service, Amazon said in a posting on its Web site.

The news comes one week after Oracle announced that customers would be able to run a number of its software products on Amazon EC2.

Amazon, which already supports a variety of Unix operating systems, said EC2 customers would be able to configure their instances to run the Windows operating system and use SQL Server as a relational database option. The company said Windows and SQL Server would provide "an ideal environment for deploying ASP.NET Web sites, high performance computing clusters, media transcoding solutions, and many other Windows-based applications."

Amazon is currently operating a private beta of EC2 running the Microsoft software.

While Microsoft has dropped hints about providing SQL Server database hosted services itselfnothing concrete has emerged.

Last week, at the Oracle OpenWorld conference, Oracle said its customers could license the Oracle 11g database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Enterprise Linux to run in the Amazon EC2 environment. Customers could also use their existing licenses for those products on Amazon EC2 without additional fees, the company said. Oracle also announced a cloud computing-based data backup solution called Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module that will utilize the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as a backup destination.
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Cloud Computing or Computing In The Clouds - we hear about it and use it as we go about our lives on the net.
An interesting Q & A about cloud computing with Andreas Bechtolsheim.
9 Jul 2009
Andreas Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and chief development officer of Arista Networks,
a Silicon Valley cloud computing company.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technol ... uting.html
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Google Apps Marketplace
"The first computers using Chrome OS won't have a hard drive.
Internet & cloud computing will perform functions done by Windows."
Google is to broaden its assault on Microsoft's dominance of the market for business software by launching on online marketplace for other companies' enterprise products.

The launch of the Google Apps Marketplace is part of the company's push to offer business and consumers a simplified way of computing.

It will launch its new operating system Chrome OS later this year which will act as little more than a browser does at the moment, meeting the basic needs of most users by supporting a variety of software applications like webmail or word processing.

The company believes that for most people a complicated software system, with its own security issues and updating, is no longer necessary. All these things could be done automatically with a cloud-based operating system such as Chrome.

Microsoft has expanded its own cloud-based computing offerings for consumers and businesses but it still derives the vast majority of its income from its Windows and Office software franchises.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol ... 057229.ece
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I worry a little about cloud computing.
Yes, the cloud means instant web-wide updates and yes, the cloud means fast, cheap and massive computing power for all but surely....
the cloud also means 1 virus infects everyone and.....
everything becomes more hack-able?

I watch and wait.
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