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Cloud Confusion Amongst IT Professionals

June 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Software, UK, software as a service

The findings of a survey by document management software company, Version One (www.versionone.co.uk), has revealed that 41% of senior IT professionals admit that they “don’t know” what cloud computing is. Version One carried out the research with 60 senior IT professionals (IT directors and managers) across a range of UK public and private sector organisations. [...]

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Tim O’Reilly on Open Source and Cloud Computing

August 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Cloud Computing, Open Source, Web 2.0

Just read a very interesting article by Tim O’Reilly on ‘Open Source and Cloud Computing’
O’Reilly highlights the dangers of proprietary  ‘lock in’ to cloud computing service providers such as Amazon’s S3 and EC2, Google’s AppEngine and Salesforce’s force.com.
O’Reilly asks
Why did the WWW end up with hundreds of millions of independent information providers while centralized sites [...]

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