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Simplifying cloud deployment : readiness assessment
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-07-25 00:35
Like most new technologies, cloud computing can bring significant changes to business processes, application architectures, technology infrastructure, and operating models, and all must be properly understood.
Having a well thought-out strategy can mean the difference between success and failure, so the first step in understanding the challenges cloud computing can incur is by taking the readiness assessment.
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Three Wildly Different Ways SAP Is Bring Mobile And Cloud Together
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-07-19 00:18
Several months ago, I wrote about the Four Ways SAP Is Embracing SoCloMo, i.e. the mashup of Social, Cloud and Mobile technology.
Predictably, one of the ways involved our cloud HR acquisition, SuccessFactors. But there were three other excellent efforts that show just far SAP's progressed beyond R/3.
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iCloud email addresses rolling out via iOS 6 beta 3
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-07-17 00:29
The third beta version of iOS 6 has been handed out to developers running the new mobile OS as an over-the-air update this morning. The new versions of Xcode haven't quite made their way out into the world yet, but they should soon, giving iOS and Mac developers the option to test and build their apps on the upcoming operating system.
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Hidden bugs that made Amazon Web Service outage worse
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-07-04 01:39
Amazon Web Services' prolonged down time over the weekend was caused by lightning, according to the company -- but was lengthened by software bugs in the cloud provider's infrastructure.
The bugs, disclosed by Amazon in an analysis of the failure, show how the size at which cloud providers operate can make them acutely vulnerable to failures in their software systems -- and acts as an object lesson of Google's statement that "at scale, everything breaks."
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Addressing security in a cloud-enabled organization
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-06-26 02:28
The adoption of cloud computing is rapidly gathering momentum, as more companies use this technology to store data and access applications online. However as cloud computing becomes more mainstream, security concerns are being raised.
A recent Robert Half survey of 150 CIOs and CTOs in Asia Pacific revealed that security was the most prevalent concern among the respondents when migrating their technology functions to the cloud.
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