Unavoidable Shift towards Cloud Computing "It’s no longer a question of whether to use the cloud, but of how and when," Cesar Orosco writes at Forbes. He brings out some statistical facts about the cloud in enterprise, such as "90% of Microsoft’s 2011 R&D budget of $9.6 billion was spent on cloud[...]
A perfect performance, fast page response, and 100% uptime is crucial for online businesses. And what about vendors opting for a cloud computing strategy? Monitoring cloud performance means measuring the level of service that the customer is acquiring from the entire cloud environment, usually from[...]
Telecommunications Company in Korea Expands Partnership with Akamai The leading telecommunications company in the Republic of Korea, KT, announced on March 26th that it will expand partnership with Akamai, the leading cloud service provider, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Based on what you can do with the cloud, i.e. remotely located computers that use an independent server system to store data and run applications, we can describe many cloud services available today. One of which is the Software-as-a-service model, more popularly known as - SaaS. The whole myriad[...]
Pingdom lists the hosting locations of the biggest websites in the world Pingdom conducted a research to check in which cities the most of the world's content is hosted. They have listed 7,936 cities that between them host the top one million sites in the world. The results are plotted on an[...]
If you have experienced using e-mail, you have already experienced using the cloud. Basically, what you are loading on your machine, as an e-mail user, is simply - an application. You log in into a Web Service, and all the programs necessary to actually run the application, are located on a remote[...]
