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Hybrid: Mixing Myth and Reality

February 10, 2016

IT, and especially IT vendors, have a curious relationship with language. We tend to hijack existing words and terms and then adapt their meaning for our own selfish needs. The meaning of these adopted words usually starts pretty fluidly and ...

The Forgotten Factor of Cloud Memory Organization

December 11, 2015

With practically unlimited data storage possibilities and access from anywhere you have an Internet connection, does it really matter how cloud memory works? Actually, yes, it does matter. While nobody wants to be forced to dive into the gory detail ...

6 Factors to Consider Before You Migrate a Software App to the Cloud

December 8, 2015

With ‘all-you-can-eat’ compute power at low-low prices, it’s tempting to try to move applications wholesale from on-premises systems to cloud servers. You’ll never run out of processing capacity; system maintenance and upgrades become somebody ...

Joint Venture and Partnership Equality in the Cloud

November 24, 2015

Here’s a new advantage to add to the already impressive list for cloud computing. Yes, you still get scalability, flexibility, reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness. The bonus is equality. While this characteristic might not leap out at an ...

Data Conveyor Belts in the Cloud

November 17, 2015

How we mechanize and automate! Ever since the Industrial Revolution and the first machine-driven textile production, we’ve been looking for ways to save labor in all the things we do. Add Adam Smith’s division of labor and celebrated pin factory ...

From the Biggest Cloud to the Smallest – and Then What?

November 11, 2015

Technologies may have several claims to fame. Exceptional size is often one of them: the biggest airplane ever built, the smallest robot, and so on. Cloud infrastructures can compete in both categories. Scalability is often touted as a key advantage ...

Gaining Exposure With Cloud PR

November 5, 2015

With all that is taking place within the cloud computing industry, it can be very difficult for cloud services and providers to not only capture market share but engage properly with their target audience. Implementing and executing a well-planned ...

Now the Cloud Can Think For You Too

July 30, 2015

As if storing mountains of data, providing oodles of processing power, and cutting costs were not enough, the cloud will now also solve your problems for you. There are still limits, of course, but the idea is to offer ‘Brain as a Service’ using the ...

FASP, Fog and Factoring the Network OUT of the Cloud Framework

July 29, 2015

Which part of the cloud service solution lags all the rest in terms of performance increases? Yes, I’m looking at you, Networking. Where computer processing power and storage capacity increases by a factor of ten, networking performance only goes up ...

When Competition in Cloud and Mobile Computing is a Mixed Blessing

July 24, 2015

In today’s enlightened business world, competition is considered to be good. When monopolies are broken and suppliers are obliged to provide better value for money, customers see the benefit. Suppliers themselves may even do better thanks to ...

Will Everything Become a Cloud Service, Including Backhoes and Fertilizer?

July 21, 2015

Cloud services for data storage and data processing can make sense in many ways: cost, flexibility and scalability are just a few. With the improvements in IT networks and web connections in speed and ubiquity, you can store and process information ...

So What Do You Really Know About the Cloud, Anyway?

July 14, 2015

Depending on the person you ask what is the cloud, you may get startlingly different answers. Although cloud computing has now pervaded many professional organizations and enterprises, as recently as 2013 a survey of Americans found the following: ...

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