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How Quickly Will Software Vendors Move to the Cloud?

— There’s an excellent discussion going on over on the Cloud Computing Google Group about the pace of migration of traditional software to a SaaS model. Here I recently went into some of the very real reasons why the migration is slower than some would like, but didn’t really talk about the pace of adoption. There a...

Feb 04 03:45:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 3, 2012

— I'm only here for the HighScalability: 762 billion: objects stored on S3; $1B/Quarter: Google spend on servers; 100 Petabytes: Storage for Facebook's photos and videos. Quotable Quotes: @knorth2: #IPO filing says #Facebook is "dependent on our ability to maintain and scale our technical infrast...

Feb 03 05:16:00 pm GMT / High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.»

Marketing Cloud Computing to Non-Believer CIOs

— Cloud computing is a pretty big deal. It's one of the top priorities for many CIOs. So, it should be a pretty easy process to build a B2B content strategy that helps CIOs make a purchasing decision. Or is it? I subscribe to a lot of newsletters and have a ton of Google Alerts to help me mine for information I use to le...

Feb 03 12:16:00 am GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

At long last, malware scanning comes to Google's Android Market

— Google engineers have unveiled a cloud-based service that scours the Android Market for malicious smartphone apps. Bouncer, as the scanner is called, automatically checks each title in the Google app bazaar to make sure it doesn't match signatures of known malware, Hiroshi Lockheimer, vice presi...

Feb 02 09:26:00 pm GMT / Uptime»

Google Docs offline comes to Android, but no editing allowed

— Google keeps taking tiny steps toward creating a full-fledged document creation and editing experience to users of computers and mobile devices. Recently, Google unveiled an HTML5-powered app for the Chrome browser that lets you read documents offline—but not edit them. Yesterday, Google br...

Feb 02 03:09:00 pm GMT / Uptime»

Storage Efficiencies Redefined

— If you Google storage efficiencies, eventually you will get a Wikipedia definition, which describes storage efficiency as “the ability to store and manage data that consumes the least amount of space with little or no impact on performance, resulting in a lower total operational cost.” Wikipedia also references t...

Feb 01 09:25:35 pm GMT / Hu Yoshida»

Planetary-scale computing

— If you really want to know how to build a cloud, look at how Google architects its data center infrastructure to produce economies of scale at a global level

Jan 31 07:56:06 pm GMT / data center Resources | ZDNet »

New Google reference doc shows comparison of Dart and JavaScript

— Google has published documentation that illustrates how traditional JavaScript syntax compares to that of its new Dart programming language. The page, which they call the Dart Synonym app, shows JavaScript syntax examples side-by-side with the equivalent Dart code. Google developed Dart wi...

Jan 30 10:18:45 pm GMT / Uptime»

Vishing: To Have Your Identity Stolen, Press One

— Of all the terms describing identity theft methods, “Vishing” (which stands for “Voice Phishing”) is perhaps the most ambiguous one. A simple Google query for the definition of the term shows just some of its multiple interpretations: “Vishing is the criminal practice of using social...

Jan 30 02:00:24 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

Google, what happened?

— Google, it used to be I couldn't wait to see your cheery face in the morning. Now I'm not sure I can even get a straight answer from you.When you first showed up out of nowhere, I was charmed like everyone else. You dressed simply. There was nothing artificial about you. You just did what you did better than anyone els...

Jan 30 11:00:00 am GMT / Cloud Computing - Infoworld»

DMARC Promises A World Of Less Phishing

— Some 15 companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal plan to jointly work on a standard for blocking phishing e-mails by verifying that they come from legitimate companies. It seems obvious that trusted, legitimate companies could come together to do this, but it's only started happening in the last ...

Jan 30 09:31:43 am GMT / TechCrunchIT»

Google Has Lost Control Of Android Fragmentation

— Fragmentation allows variety among device makers, but can cause frustration for developers and lower satisfaction among end users.

Jan 25 05:17:00 pm GMT / InformationWeek Virtualization Weblog»

Google Goes MoreSQL with Tenzing - SQL Over MapReduce

— MoreSQL is a cheeky idea Alex Tatiyants invented in NoSQL No More: Let’s double down with MoreSQL advocating that the cure for NoSQL is not less SQL, but even more SQL. Use SQL everywhere, for everything. This is of course creates yet another NewSQL. Hopefully we've exhausted all tasteful var...

Jan 25 05:00:03 pm GMT / High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.»

Bank Chooses to Use Google Cloud Services

— This week Google has announced what could be considered as a breakthrough agreement for its cloud computing services. Spanish bank BBVA has signed an agreement to use Google cloud services internally for its 110,000 staff. This is the biggest single company deal Google has signed. The deal can be considered as a breakt...

Jan 20 05:47:41 pm GMT / Cloud Computing»

Wall Street Beat: Enterprise spending helps mixed quarter for tech

— There were weak spots in the last quarter of 2011 for sector bellwethers Google, IBM, Intel and Microsoft, but corporate demand for technology appeared to remain resilient going into what is expected to be a year of slower growth for global IT spending.

Jan 20 05:34:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Servers News»

Google adds VMware co-founder to its board of directors

— Last week Google surprised many in the virtualization world by naming Diane Greene to its board of directors, filling the 10th seat vacated more than two years ago when Arthur Levinson resigned. In addition to the new board member position, Greene will serve on Google's audit committee.

Jan 17 04:02:56 pm GMT / Virtualization - Infoworld»

BrianMadden.com Zeitgeist 2011

— Taking a page from Google's annual Zeitgeist metrics , we decided to compile some of our own for BrianMadden.com. (Actually we did this a long time ago, though it looks like we haven't since 2004 .) We posted 447 new articles & videos in 2011 (including...(read more)

Dec 30 08:29:00 am GMT / Brian Madden»

Hyder: Transactional Indexed Record Manager for Shared Flash Storage

— If you work in the database world, you already know Phil Bernstein. He’s the author of Principles of Transaction Processing and has a long track record as a successful and prolific database researcher. Past readers of this blog may remember Phil’s guest blog posting on Google Megastore. Over the past few yea...

Dec 14 05:43:25 pm GMT / Perspectives»

CloudBeat 2011: Uncomfortable Choices on the Road to Cloud Computing

— Building a cloud that works like AWS or Google involves a complete rethink of just about every concept considered canonical in enterprise IT for the past 20 years. This is the message Randy Bias and Lew Tucker (Vice President and … Continue reading →

Dec 05 04:00:09 pm GMT / Cloudscaling»

Puppet Labs Scores $8.5M In New Funding From Cisco, Google Ventures And VMware

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Nov 29 04:51:52 pm GMT / Virtualization.com»

Backupify Names Top 10 Cloud Computing Experts to Follow on Twitter

— THANK YOU BACKUPIFY!!!! Thank you for the honor of being on your Top 10 List! Backupify is the leading backup provider for cloud based data, offering an all-in-one archiving, search and restore service for the most popular online services including Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter and more. With one account you get cen...

Nov 15 03:15:00 am GMT / Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson»

Google Translate conversation mode expands to 14 languages

— Google Translate conversation mode, which allows two people to speak in different languages and have their words translated in near real time, is now expanding beyond English and Spanish to 14 new languages. The service is also getting some additional features that help facilitate conversations.

Oct 13 06:00:17 pm GMT / GigaOM � Cloud Computing»

Google Megastore: The Data Engine Behind GAE

— Megastore is the data engine supporting the Google Application Engine. It’s a scalable structured data store providing full ACID semantics within partitions but lower consistency guarantees across partitions. I wrote up some notes on it back in 2008 Under the Covers of the App Engine Datastore and po...

Jan 09 06:38:39 pm GMT / Perspectives»

In Cloud Market, Arming David May Be the Way to Take Down Goliath

— When all is said and done, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com might be battling it out for PaaS (and SaaS) dollars against a whole slew of smaller providers operating within the infrastructural confines of AWS, Rackspace, Terremark and Savvis.

Jun 06 02:00:44 pm GMT / GigaOM � iaas»

Speedy Web

— With Google incorporating a “website speed” factor into site rankings, it has created renewed interests in rendering performance of web sites/apps. As a techie who has spent most of her career around web app delivery & performance, I’d like to highlight some (known) techniques and offer a few insi...

Jun 02 07:57:21 pm GMT / The AppGirl Blog»