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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:52 pm    Post subject: Cloud Computing Reply with quote
A timely update on the concept of "cloud computing." All we need now are faster (WiMax, fiber optics, etc.) and more secure connections from our homes - and telecommuting will again take off:

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2008/tc2008082_445669.htm?chan=rss_topStories_ssi_5

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San Jose (Calif.)-based Sanmina and Google are at the forefront of a fundamental shift in the way companies obtain software and computing capacity. A host of providers including Amazon (AMZN), Salesforce.com (CRM), IBM (IBM), Oracle (ORCL), and Microsoft are helping corporate clients use the Internet to tap into everything from extra server space to software that helps manage customer relationships. Assigning these computing tasks to some remote location—rather than, say, a desktop computer, handheld machine, or a company's own servers—is referred to collectively as cloud computing (BusinessWeek, 4/24/0Cool, and it's catching on across Corporate America.

The term "cloud computing" encompasses many areas of tech, including software as a service, a software distribution method pioneered by Salesforce.com about a decade ago. It also includes newer avenues such as hardware as a service, a way to order storage and server capacity on demand from Amazon and others. What all these cloud computing services have in common, though, is that they're all delivered over the Internet, on demand, from massive data centers.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
MIT Technology Review on Microsoft's foray into "cloud computing," with an OS called Windows Cloud:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/21529/?nlid=1428&a=f
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
MIT Technology Review on Cloud Computing - the key to the "Science Revival":

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/21180/?nlid=1256&a=f
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