Posts Tagged ‘cloud services’
Lots of people fear the cloud because of security and privacy concerns. Christian Baun asks if it’s safe to use cloud services and offers nine common-sense tips for saving your data on and around cloud services…
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Whilst cloud is being sold as the newest most flexible and therefore sensible approach, SME’s who are considering the dazzling benefits of having “technology on tap” would do well to consider where cloud has come from before re-thinking their entire IT infrastructure.
Need more storage? You could buy a new hard disk, SSD or USB drive. But why not migrate to the cloud and make use of Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
Jun
3
The Pogoplug is a Linux-based network file-sharing device that allows secure access to share, upload, download and manage files from within a web browser. Kenneth Hess shares his thoughts…
You need to process lots of data (more than 1 TB)? You want to parallelise across hundreds or thousands of CPUs and you want to make this easy? You need MapReduce for large-scale parallel data processing. You have lower demands? No problem. MapReduce can do that too
Do you enjoy Python or Java programming? You want to write web applications? Try the Google App Engine. And don’t fear, because it’s easy to learn and, of course, it’s free…
If you need network services, there is little need to build up your own hardware. Try using cloud services and bring your infrastructure into the cloud. You need an in-house infrastructure? Try Eucalyptus…
Mar
12
Various categories of cloud services exist. This column brings light into the darkness…
