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Cloudbook: The Cloud Computing Resource Community

Vol 2 Issue 4

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Introduction to the Business of Cloud

by Ilyas Iyoob
Cloud computing is just a fancy way of saying computing via the network. A relatively new concept, made possible by virtualization and advancements in technology, cloud computing provides many benefits. However, organizations must....

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How Data-as-a-Service Enables Accurate Customer Record

Sean O'Leary, CEO for StrikeIron, discusses best practices for putting DaaS to work improving quality records.

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IN the Cloud or ON the Cloud That is the Question
by Michael Sheehan
Building a Private Cloud
by Jay Muelhoefer
What SMEs Should Acknowledge about Cloud Computing
by Jack Wilson
Scaling Your SaaS Business
by Larry Aiken
Calibrations in the Cloud
by Dave Banerjea
Seeding the Cloud
by Alex Krikos
Consumer Cloud Computing
by Sudhanshu Hate
Introduction to the Business of Cloud
by Ilyas Iyoob

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Amazon Web Services Moves Backups to Cloud with New Appliance

January 25 2012 - CIO

By: Mikael Ricknas

IDG News Service — Amazon Web Services has launched a public beta test of AWS Storage Gateway, which allows enterprises to back up application data in Amazon's cloud using a software appliance, the company said on Tuesday. The Storage Gateway appliance is a virtual machine that runs on VMware's virtualization software. It uses an iSCSI interface to integrate with applications. The appliance stores data on local storage hardware, while uploading backup snapshots to Amazon's cloud. This provides low-latency access to data and off-site backups in the cloud, Amazon wrote in a blog post.

EMC Reports Record Quarter, Driven by Cloud Storage

January 24 2012 - The Street

By: James Rogers

Storage maker EMC posted record fourth-quarter revenue and profit, powered by a push in cloud computing. It was the latest technology company to report strong results. EMC, which reported its results in the wake of strong numbers from IBM, Microsoft, Intel and Texas Instruments, brought in consolidated revenue of $5.6 billion, an increase of 14% from a year earlier and just above analysts' estimate of $5.57 billion. Excluding items, EMC earned 49 cents a share on net income of $1.07 billion, gains of 17% and 16%, respectively. The company's earnings were in line with Wall Street's estimates.

Patriot Act Threatens American Cloud Computing

January 24 2012 - Wall St Cheat Sheet

By: Emily Knapp

The PATRIOT Act is generating concern among cloud users around the world, who suspect that the United States government, which now has easy access to any American-made platforms, will access their private data. United Kingdom defense contractor BAE Systems planned to adopt Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud-based productivity platform, but was warned against it by their lawyers. Though BAE Systems would be operating outside the U.S., Microsoft’s headquarters are in the U.S., and the company is subject to U.S. laws.

Microsoft’s New Cloudware Could Cast a Shadow over VMware

January 23 2012 - SYS-CON MEDIA

By: Maureen O'Gara

Microsoft staged a Private Cloud Day Tuesday to herald the coming of System Center 2012 sometime between now and the end of June. System Center 2012 will put Microsoft squarely in the private cloud business and put VMware's teeth on edge because it's cheaper and reportedly has the same bells and whistles as VMware's widgetry. According to IDC VMware will have to start competing on price.

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Article: The Hard Part About Rolling Up Clouds

November 11 2012

By:	Jeff Kaplan - Founder & Managing Director at THINKstrategies, Inc

Oracle's (Nasdaq: ORCL) recent acquisition of RightNow (Nasdaq: RNOW) raises a question: Can multiple cloud companies be merged together to form a tightly coupled suite of solutions like those which were promised but never delivered during the client-server era? On the face of things, it would appear that merging cloud companies together should be relatively easy and straightforward since many of them already interconnect with the advent of application program interfaces (APIs). Alas, not every cloud company is built the same. Like snowflakes, cloud company architectures, programming languages and a myriad of other operational pieces and parts can differ dramatically.

Paper: Compliance Auditing in Future Web-based Infrastructures

June 14 2012

By:	Benoit Hudzia - Sr Researcher at SAP Research Jonathan Sinclair - Research Associate at SAP Research

Businesses today are required to comply with a litany of legislation, regulations and standards. However, with an in- creasing utilisation of the internet for delivering products as services, challenges arise in assessing and maintaining com- pliance. We propose to discuss an architecture that attempts to leverage the dynamism of service-based infrastructures in order to process the real-time compliance state of a system.

Article: Cloud Computing Research: International conferences on cloud computing

January 24 2012

By:	Aditya Thatte - Software Engineer at IBM Research

A brief look at cloud computing from a research point of view.

Article: Amazon DynamoDB: NoSQL in Amazon Public Cloud

January 19 2012

By:	Mitesh Soni - Research Engineer at iGATE Patni

NoSQL Databases are built without relations. But is it really that “good” to go for NoSQL Databases? A world without relations, no joins and pure scalability! NoSQL databases typically emphasize horizontal scalability via partitioning, putting them in a good position to leverage the elastic provisioning capabilities of the cloud. Amazon has announced the immediate availability of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. Lets find more details on it.