2011 was no doubt a year of cloud innovations and developments. Several cloud services including, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS came in, many failed, many succeeded and many are on their way to be next Amazon. With the start of 2012, it is evident that 2012 will be an year of Cloud Technology. We will see …Read More
We define cloud computing in simplest terms, as follows: A set of pooled computing resources, delivered over the web, powered by software. Cloud computing – not to be confused with grid computing, utility computing, or autonomic computing – is a form of computing that involves the interaction of several virtualized resources, meaning that many servers …Read More
We are always on the watch for the ‘next best thing’ when it comes to technology and the Internet. Certainly no one can doubt that the next generation of the Internet (known as Web 2.0) has had a dramatic affect on how people interact and connect with each other – both from an individual standpoint …Read More
The term ‘cloud’ refers to a large cluster of computing technology, owned by some large business entity. You, the user, might run a spreadsheet program, but instead of it being located on your computer or laptop – it’s located on this large entity’s computers. Generally, a ‘cloud’ is a huge warehouse full of rack-servers.nThe arguments …Read More
Once a term only used by governments, cloud hosting is making its way to businesses both large and small. According to Wikipedia, cloud computing “is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the internet.” Image a multitude of servers that are connected through networks …Read More
You may have already heard of cloud computing; but the question is, do you really know what it means? Google Docs and Apple’s MobileMe are just some of the popular examples of this concept. Another innovation has entered the picture – cloud hosting. Basically a website hosted on clustered servers where online operations are not …Read More
The term ‘cloud hosting’ has caught the attention of web developers the world over. But while the underlying concepts of cloud technologies date back to the 1960s, and even with the term first coming into commercial use in the 1990s, there is still a great deal of uncertainty revolving around the capabilities and benefits of …Read More
Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2 for short, is a network of Amazon’s server hardware that customers may access as a web service. EC2 geographically distributes the resources needed to serve your application, and it is capable of rapidly bringing new server instances online. Customers only pay for bandwidth and space that they actually use; …Read More
