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BotchagalupeMarks for July 20th – 14:00
By John | July 21, 2009
These are my links for July 20th from 14:00 to 14:58:
- Is the Cloud Ready for the Enterprise? | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com – For every person who touted SOA or SaaS or grid computing as the next phase of enterprise development, you usually had someone claiming these are just fancy new names for the same old technology. The cloud is no different.
- L.A. weighs plan to replace computer software with Google service – Los Angeles Times – Frustrated by a slow and antiquated computer system, the city of Los Angeles is weighing a plan to replace its e-mail and records retention software with a service provided by Google, a move that could allow the Internet giant to retain sensitive records transmitted by the police and other municipal agencies.
- Infosys | Microsoft: Public Clouds,What are the ? – I have taken a stab at comparing the Azure pricing versus value proposition vis-à-vis that of the two major cloud providers in the market today. Let me first call out, although Amazon’s compute services (EC2) are in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) category and folks may argue that comparing it with the likes of other Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers is not really an apples to apples comparison.
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