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Amazon Web Services outages raise serious cloud questions

The unreliability of Amazon Web Services is causing some cloud-dependent firms to reconsider their options and move their infrastructure onto other platforms. Problems with the firm's Elastic Block Store (EBS) service occurred at an Amazon datacentre in Virginia on 17...

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How The Mobile Cloud Can Boost App Development

With the advent of mobile cloud computing, increasing effort has been put into developing platforms that simplify the development of cloud-based mobile applications. Creating apps for the mobile cloud is significantly different than developing apps for a native...

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How Can Fixing Cars Help Hone Cloud Computing Skills?

Amazon.com (AMZN) Vice-President James Hamilton's schooling in computer data centers started under the hood of a Lamborghini Countach. Fixing luxury Italian autos in British Columbia while in his 20s taught Hamilton, 51, valuable lessons in problem solving, forcing...

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Cloud-based CRM: Beware Bad Data and Silly Object Models

Over the course of too many years, I've said that you can't make a user interface that's too easy for users. But cloud-based software vendors have essentially done just that. System setup is now deceptively simple, and too many sales pitches tell stories of how users...

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Cloud Computing and Enterprise CRM: The Way Forward

CRM cloud computing is a promising field, but it has yet to be efficiently explored by enterprise-level players. Companies still have apprehension over issues such as integration, availability, security and costs. How these concerns are addressed by IT vendors will...

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Google Offers a Wisp of Cloud Printing

Google's new mobile cloud printing service is just a modest first step toward a driver-free, cord-free future. "HTML5 is key to operating Cloud Print on mobile devices running Android 2.1+ and iOS 3+, noted Compuware CTO Imad Mouline. "HTML5 causes mobile apps to...

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Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the Elastic Beanstalk beta, a way to automatically handle the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. There is no charge for Beanstalk and it is initially meant...

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