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Amazon S3 introduces Requester Pays Model

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an inexpensive service for storing and accessing data on the cloud (or Internet). For a brief and useful introduction to Amazon S3, refer to this post by Amit Agarwal.
By the end of 2008, Amazon S3 introduced a feature named “Requester Pays”. Requester here refers to the user [...]

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IBM Blue Spruce

IBM is working actively on Blue Spruce, a fully browser based application development platform. To be precise, IBM is NOT working on a brand new browser but on a platform for developing and delivering applications through the existing browsers. This is a direct challenge to Microsoft’s Silverlight and Adobe’s AIR platforms, that aim [...]

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Distress on the cloud

This a typical example of one of the drawbacks with Cloud computing. Though Cloud computing is an ideal choice for startups with low capital, it can turn into a nuisance if the problems aren’t noticed by the end customer. Cloud computing platform does nothing but hosting the service. Any problems with the [...]

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Capgemini and Amazon WS collaborate on the cloud

Such a collaboration was waiting to happen. Many of us were right in assuming that Cloud Computing might be the way that the organizations would go, during economic downturn. Capgemini is taking a step in the right direction, by building expertise to deploy enterprise services on the cloud.
Capgemini has announced a collaboration with [...]

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Google Visualization API

It’s a cherry on top of the Cloud Computing paradigm. In short this is what Google Visualization API does:
Google Visualization API aims to fetch data from any data source connected to the Internet and provide useful visual outputs like Graphs, Charts, Dashboards etc. Earlier, the API worked with Google Spreadsheets and now Google [...]

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Force.com – Platform-as-a-service

“Web 3.0 is broadly defined today as the semantic Web. I think Web 3.0 really could be platform as a service,” – said Marc Benioff, Chairman/CEO of Salesforce.com. What he was talking about, is the Force.com platform provided by Salesforce.com.

Force.com is a cloud computing platform, provided by Salesforce.com, for building and deploying enterprise applications. [...]

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Azure – The Cloud Computing Platform from Microsoft

 

The Azure Services Platform (Azure) is Microsoft’s answer to the cloud computing platform.  Azure provides an operating system and a set of developer services, all required to build applications on the cloud. 
As with any cloud computing service, Azure has the following benefits from the Business standpoint:

Reduce the need for Upfront Technology Purchases
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