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Almost every description of P2P in the context of business infrastructure starts something like this: "P2P is notorious for..." This comes from many years
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of people associating P2P with illegal downloading, to the point that the terms are now almost synonymous. Such an association is inherently unfair, however, because no one equates TCP/IP and crime, despite the fact that TCP/IP is the protocol of choice for many cyber-criminals. Rather than resorting to out-dated and inaccurate definitions, let's start from scratch and consider the following: what is P2P, really? What is it good for? How can we use it to save and earn money? What's in a Name? P2P stands for "peer to peer." Put simply, it's one method of establishing communication between parties. Uploading information to Google Docs to share it with colleagues is not P2P, but sending the same information as an attachment to email is, despite the fact that mail servers are involved. In this context, P2P doesn't mean "serverless commun
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When my posting frequency drops a bit, the usual reason is that I'm flying here and yon and otherwise occupied with goings-on at some conference, meeting,
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or client engagement. The situation in January was a bit different. For the first time in a while, I had some decent blocks of uncommitted time. And I put those to use fleshing out and writing some longer research notes that had been sitting on the to-do list for way too long. Two of these deal with so-called "cloud computing"--the idea that software will increasingly run in the network. These were originally planned as a single paper, but for structural and length reasons, I decided to break out the definitional piece, "Defining Cloud Computing." To tell the truth, I don't typically find formal taxonomies and categorizations especially interesting, but I thought it useful in this case to be clear about the topic under discussion. The main research note, "The Cloud vs. Open Source," focuses on the relevancy of open source in a cloud
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http://conferences.theiet.org/cloud-computing/index.htm
'Implementing, developing and managing the delivery of cost effective, automated applications through on demand cloud computing ecosystems' Welcome This
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unique IT networking and learning opportunity has an immense scope in its programme. Covering technical aspects, it also delves into your organisations silos responsible for customer delivery, finance & budget, operations, contracts & payments and business performance & development to provide a holistic approach. You will have the opportunity to benchmark your progress in this most dynamic time of IT business applications advancement. Meet the complete list of job titles from each part of Cloud Computing's ecosystem. Please note the Cloud Computing conference and master class is a three day event. Yours Sincerely Matt Taylor Event Producer, Multimedia Communications, Electronics & IT The IET © 2008 The Institution of Engineering and Technology. The Institution of Engineering and Technology is registered as a Charity in England & Wales
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/032609-economic-recession-good-or-bad.html
I heard someone assert a week or so ago that Gartner Group had stated that the recession is going to be bad for cloud computing. Since this seems counter-intuitive
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(because offerings that are, at least, putatively less expensive should be more attractive in difficult economic times), I decided to do some searching to find the statement and understand the context. What I found was ... nothing. No evidence that someone from Gartner put forth that opinion. Nevertheless, there is something to be examined in this question: is the recession good or bad for cloud computing? Where you come down on that question depends a great deal on how you think most IT organizations will consume cloud services. By cloud services, I refer to the characteristics of cloud computing (a good definition is presented by the UC Berkeley RAD Lab, which was discussed in this blog posting ); in other words, how will IT organizations achieve an infrastructure that scales easily, can be reconfigured in minutes rather t
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http://news.cnet.com/Year-in-review-The-cloud-soars/2009-7345_3-6248570.html?tag=mncol;txt
Look beyond the tumultuous economic storm and you'll see something else forming--cloud computing, a term and concept that took off in 2008. "If you look
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at Google Trends, 'cloud computing' came out of nowhere in 2008. People were searching for it in the third quarter of 2007, but it went bonkers in 2008," said Frank Gillett, vice president and principal analyst with Forrester Research. Indeed. Not only did the in 2008, so did the number of related news stories. The concept of cloud computing, in which the cloud is another name for the Internet, can also be another name for on-demand computing, utility computing, and software as a service. "2008 is the year that everyone began talking about the cloud, and people felt it was a phrase they needed to know," Gillett said. "It became an industry buzzword this year." Contributing to that end was a book by Nick Carr called The Big Switch . Among the larger cloud computing announcements this year was , which is designed to allow developers to w
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/software/0,39044822,62050739,00.htm
perspective At the end of October 2007, amid a blaze of publicity, Microsoft launched Azure, its cloud computing service. It offers customers the ability
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to deploy applications across the Internet--or 'the cloud' as it has become known--or on servers located on the customer's site, or via a combination of the two. In doing so Microsoft is responding to the competitive challenges put down by Amazon, Google and others who offer similar products. The essence of cloud computing is the delivery of software as an on-demand service, which is available without the customer's involvement with or control over the underlying IT infrastructure. Despite the idea being around for a while-- software-as-a-service goes back to application service providers and their numerous similarities with outsourcing--selling cloud computing to financial services firms could seem problematic. The sector is renowned for its reluctance to give up control over operations, which is exactly what is involved with the clo
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CEO Marc Benioff has promoted his pet idea that traditional application software was destined for obsolescence. He was a few years early, but Benioff understood
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computer history better than his detractors. Most of the hosted on-demand application vendors, or ASPs as we called them back then, crashed and burned. Not only did they burn through money at a frightful clip, but the technology they used was thin, relying on single-tenant, non-scalable computing architecture models that left a trail of dissatisfied customers. In the post-Internet bubble world, however, the proliferation of cheap hardware combined with an abundance of Internet infrastructure created ripe conditions for Benioff and others to figure out how to do it the right way. Oracle, Microsoft and other big software makers weren't in immediate peril, but they caught on to the new reality: More customers were accessing the Internet to subscribe to programs like customer management software With roots in computer clustering an
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http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about.html
Recently, McKinsey & Company published a study on cloud computing as part of a symposium for The Uptime Institute , an organization dedicated to supporting
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the enterprise data center industry. We share McKinsey's interest in helping the IT industry better understand cloud computing, so we'd like to join the conversation Appirio and others have started about the role of cloud computing for large enterprises. There's quite a bit of talk these days about corporations building a "private cloud" with concepts like virtualization, and there can be significant benefits to this approach. But those adv antages are amplified greatly when customers use applications in the scalable datacenters provided by companies like Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com and soon, Microsoft. In this model, customers can leverage hardware infrastructure, distributed software infrastructure, and applications that are built for the cloud, and let us run it for them. This offers them much lower cost applications, and remo
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2343511,00.asp
Google has commissioned a report that unsurprisingly touts the benefits of cloud computing, and offers recommendations for policy makers looking at the
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technology. Google called on lawmakers to embrace full connectivity, open access, security, and privacy when considering cloud-based computing. "It's always tempting to suggest that the next new technology will be disruptive, game-changing, or revolutionary. The Internet certainly was," Bob Boorstin, director of Google's corporate and policy communications, wrote in a blog post about the report. "It remains to be seen whether cloud computing will deliver the same magnitude of changes and benefits (or more), but it unquestionably holds a lot of promise." For users to take advantage of cloud computing, they first have to have access to the Web, according to the report, which was put together by Jeffrey Rayport and Andrew Heyward of the research firm Marketspace. To accomplish this, the government should consider tax incentives for technol
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