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BotchagalupeMarks for April 9th – 08:15
By John | April 10, 2009
These are my links for April 9th from 08:15 to 10:38:
- Bring On The Open Source Alternatives To SharePoint | Data Driver | Redmond Developer News – Alfresco said it has added 270 enterprise customers such as Federal Express, Fox Broadcasting, the New York Police Department, the State of Kansas, Sun Microsystems and Virgin Mobile.
- Azure Storage – April 2009 – Michael Kennedy – DevelopMentor – A good overview of using Azure storage.
- A Cisco CDN? « Data Center Knowledge – So it’s not a surprising to hear reports that Cisco is leasing space in data centers for a content delivery network (CDN). Dan Rayburn says he has heard from two colocation providers that Cisco has recently acquired space for a future CDN offering for third parties.
- Operating the Cloud: the people and process questions | The IT Skeptic – Cloud computing is a popular topic right now. Some see it as a saviour technology for cost cutting but there is too much thought given to how you will connect at a technical level with a Cloud service provider. Just as important is how you will connect at a process level and at a business level. IT development and solutions staff are prone to waving these considerations away as an issue for the operations people and the “suits”, but the process and business considerations are more important than the technical ones.
- Review: Nirvanix CloudNAS « The Storage Architect – Nirvanix is one of the companies at the forefront of offering cloud computing services. Their key products are based around the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN); data can be stored and retrieved using a number of client applications, one of which is the Nirvanix CloudNAS product.
- SDC Will Strengthen Google’s Position In The Enterprise Cloud – SDC is built around having an agent inside the firewall, which connects to servers inside of Google. This gives Google servers policy-controlled access to data businesses have chosen to expose. Basically, SDC allows secure access to data behind firewall for use in cloud based apps hosted on App Engine.
- The race to a million Twitter followers is on » VentureBeat – This morning the two companies announced a new collaboration between Google Apps and Oracle's Siebel customer care/CRM software. With the new "Oracle Gadget Wizard for Google Apps," it's now easier to port data between Oracle and Google Apps spreadsheets.
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