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Short Guide To Cloud Computing

By eugenec at 13 February, 2012, 12:00 am

Cloud computing evokes different perceptions in different people. To some, it refers to accessing software and storing data in the “cloud” representation of the Internet or a network and using associated services. To others, it is seen as nothing new, but just a modernization of the time-sharing model that was widely employed in the 1960s before the advent of relatively lower-cost computing platforms. These developments eventually evolved to the client/server model and to the personal computer, which placed large amounts of computing power at people’s desktops and spelled the demise of time-sharing systems.

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Cloud Computing History

By eugenec at 21 December, 2011, 12:00 am

Cloud computing provides the capability to use computing and storage resources on a metered basis and reduce the investments in an organization’s computing infrastructure. The spawning and deletion of virtual machines running on physical hardware and being controlled by hypervisors is a cost-efficient and flexible computing paradigm.

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Programming And Cloud Computing?

By eugenec at 24 November, 2011, 12:00 am

We’ve been promised all kinds of benefits from cloud computing: faster development, cheaper applications. All this is wonderful news for the CIO, but could it be that the cloud is anything but good news for the humble technophile?

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