- 117GB of working memory? You must be joking!Posted 139 days ago
-
Movie special effects are all made in the cloud
If you have been mesmerized by the animation sequences and the special effects in the movies you have been going to lately, you have to thank cloud computing and some very talented people for this. While special...
- Posted 361 days ago
-
Cryptography will get new capabilities with Cloud Computing
Most of us are quite satisfied with 256 bit encryption used in all online financial and other secure transactions. However the fact of the matter is that recently a team of researchers in Japan from Fujitsu Labs,...
- Posted 361 days ago
-
Major energy and carbon savings due to cloud computing – a report
A recent Google post describes how cloud computing is reducing energy costs. Data compiled by Google shows that web mail (they discussed Gmail obviously) is 80 times more energy efficient than traditional, self hosted mail. A typical...
- Posted 364 days ago
-
Secure inter-enterprise Cloud relationships
The world is still recovering from the severe economic crisis that has taken almost all industry sectors by storm but this doesn’t mean that the overall number of business partners and business opportunities between enterprises has been...
- Posted 367 days ago
-
Service outage at Amazon has a cascading effect
There was a service outage at Amazon Web Service’s US East data center on June 15, 2012 and the center was disrupted for a couple of hours. Heroku, a platform as a service provider that runs itself...
- Posted 367 days ago
-
Cloud based email archival – safe, effective and efficient
There are a large number of reasons why corporate email has to be reliably archived. The most serious of them all is compliance while others such as business continuity, litigation, record of activity etc are nearly as...
- Posted 367 days ago
-
Cloud computing resembles the early days of Open Source
When the Open Source storm hit the IT scene, many dismissed it as a fad. How long could you last giving away source code for free? Many ‘experts’ felt there was a scam and simply waited for...
- Posted 368 days ago
-
NASA moves from OpenStack to commercial Cloud Platforms
Not many may know that NASA has been a pioneer in research on cloud standards and has worked extensively with Rackspace on the OpenStack initiative. Now it appears that NASA is leaving the development work to specialist...
- Posted 370 days ago
-
Virtual Bandwidth?
There are many applications that demand extremely low latency. A typical application is the stock market. You cannot afford to let transactions queue up and new software based trading systems can buy and sell several times a...
- Posted 370 days ago
-
Indian IT major offers tips on cloud migration
When you are getting ready to move to the cloud, you can always benefit by some advice. Here are some battle tested tips offered by Indian IT major HCL Technologies. When you are planning a move to...
- Posted 372 days ago












