Cloud Computing News

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The chances are that the use of Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure is not appropriate for your in-house development or system needs. What you need for IaaS Using Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), such as AWS, typically allows a wide choice of … Continued

The tax man attempts to keep up with cloud computing Cloud computing issues are mainstream news. The Washington Post reports on the impact of cloud computing upon state tax revenues: beyond the decisions about which state’s tax rates should apply … Continued

Ruby on Rails 3.1 has been released. As well as the usual round of bug fixes, the latest version of the ever-popular web development framework has seen a few controversial features added (controversial amongst web developers at least): New default … Continued

Cloud computing is the delivery of everything from IT infrastructure to applications and business processes as a service over the internet rather than a product. Instead of having to maintain in-house servers and install software, shared resources are delivered to … Continued

VMware has announced VMware vFabric Data Director, an enterprise database as a service (DBaaS). The first database supported by VMware vFabric Data Director is VMware vFabric Postgres 9.0 (vPostgres) which is PostgreSQL compatible. VMware vFabric Data Director requires VMware vSphere … Continued

Amazon launches Amazon ElastiCache Amazon has launched Amazon ElastiCache, a MemCached compatible web service for in-memory caching. Amazon ElasticCache improves the performance of web applications by using in-memory caching rather than caching to disk. Cloud Foundry all to yourself Micro … Continued

Joyent ports Kernel-based Virtual Machine into its operating system Joyent has ported Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) into its SmartOS operating system. SmartOS, is a fork of the Illumos operating system, which in its turn is a fork of the OpenSolaris … Continued

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications are used to centrally store business information so that it can be shared across a company, helping to manage workflow, hold data about customers and clients, improve sales and marketing functions (often automating many key … Continued

Metropolitan police in the cloud The UK Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is planning to migrate various systems to the cloud. The MPS’s Strategic Cloud Programme is designed to increase collaboration, knowledge management, risk management, information sharing and business intelligence analytics … Continued