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| Cloud Computing as a Disruptive Technology |
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| How cloud computing has all the markings of a disruptive technology | |
| by Alex Krikos | |
| This story describes how cloud computing has all the markings of a disruptive technology. | |
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| Introduction to Cloud Computing |
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| (In about 1,000 words) | |
| by Timothy Chou | |
| When someone asks you what cloud computing is, it may seem difficult at first to explain it. But by the time you finish reading this, you should be able to explain it to your Facebook friends. | |
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| Taking the First Steps Towards Cloud Computing |
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| by J Bruce Daley & Alan Rudolph | |
| Cloud computing today appears distant and different from every perspective, but its benefits should be clear to even the most casual observer. By making better use of hardware, software, and people, cloud computing saves money. Although it is based on some interesting technologies, the real innovations in cloud computing are in pricing. | |
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| The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing |
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| by Tim Grance & Peter Mell | |
| This is the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Information Technology Laboratory's definition of cloud computing | |
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Email encryption process in Hosted Exchange |
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| April 24 2013 |
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| The blog post describes the email encryption basics in Hosted Exchange. |
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Cloud Computing: Introduction & Overview  |
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| February 07 2013 |
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| An Introduction to Cloud Computing |
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| Demystifying The Cloud |
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| September 07 2012 |
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| This 55 page guide explains the concepts of Cloud Computing in simple terms. |
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What SMBs should expect from Cloud Computing Services? |
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| August 10 2012 |
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| Cloud Computing is a hype today. But businesses would be interested in unbiased and clear information.The Whitepaper helps small and medium Business who are looking to achieve business growth and efficiency via Cloud computing solutions. Traditional IT services are costly and not flexible. But Cloud computing supports the strategic agility today's businesses need. Learn how cloud solutions effect your business processes and help you to achieve more productivity, stability and on demand scalability.
The Whitepaper provides answers to questions like how to create a reliable network with your team and clients, how cloud can transform you business operations and finally future of cloud computing.
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| Mind Map of Cloud Computing |
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| July 02 2012 |
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| Mind Map of Cloud Computing!!!
Please suggest more so we can expand this Mind Map and make it Huge... |
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| The cloud ecosystem for beginners: A data center view |
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| April 24 2012 |
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| An overview of the cloud computing ecosystem for beginners. |
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| Presentation: Cloud Computing Overview |
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| January 28 2012 |
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| Presentation File (PPT) on Cloud Computing Overview
-Typical IT Environment
-Business Drivers
-Virtualization, Journey towards Clouds
-Defining Cloud Computing
-Cloud Deployment Models, Cloud Service Models
--Use Cases and Service Providers
-Scenarios
-Amazon AWS Overview
-Cost Benefits with examples
-Demo
--Virtualization
--Create Virtual Machine in Public Cloud
--PaaS (Java)
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| What is Cloud Computing? (With Real World Examples) |
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| November 11 2011 |
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| Cloud computing is a disruptive model for enabling on-demand, convenient, flexible access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be quickly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. In the blog, NIST's definition of cloud computing is represented with some real life things which explains it in easy manner. |
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| Embracing the Cloud Disruption |
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| May 15 2011 |
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| Dr. Donald Ferguson knows about IT complexity.
The father of IBM’s Websphere and current CTO of CA Technologies was recently quoted in a BBC interview saying, “IT departments spend 75 to 85 percent of their budgets just to keep existing IT environments running; that leaves little room for innovation.”
Ferguson explains that a primary driver of this cost profile is that modern IT systems are too complicated, over-designed and, in the end, expensive obstacles to innovation.
Cloud Computing = Simplified IT |
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| Cloud Philosophy: An Interview with Randy Bias |
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| May 10 2011 |
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| A podcast interview of Randy Bias with Michael Coté of Redmonk. A PDF transcript is available on the website. It’s a lengthy conversation, so this is a text version, with key comments underlined and bolded.
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| Cloud Computing Is Not Just a Name for Outsourcing |
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| April 11 2011 |
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| I'm guessing many of you are asking if cloud computing isn't just a new name for ASPs, software as a service, outsourcing or, for us older guys, timesharing. While the cloud certainly shares principles with all of them, something more significant is happening, something with the same impact as the generational shift from mainframes to client/server.
Let me explain just how significant it is. |
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| It's No Longer "What", it's "How?" |
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| March 25 2011 |
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| It’s no longer a question of “What is the Cloud?” The conversation is shifting to “How can I use the Cloud?” |
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| Cloud Computing for Dummies Cheat Sheet |
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| March 11 2011 |
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| Cloud computing enables Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Cloud computing means that infrastructure, applications, and business processes can be delivered to you as a service, over the Internet (or your own network).
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| Capitalizing on Cloud Computing: Not If, But When |
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| February 08 2011 |
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| Cloud computing is quickly evolving from a topic of debate to a corporate imperative for organizations of all sizes. While many spent the past year trying to clearly define and understand the value of cloud computing – the ‘what’ and ‘why’ – nearly every market research survey suggests a growing number of IT and business decision-makers are moving forward in 2011 with various initiatives aimed at capitalizing on the potential savings and additional benefits promised by the ‘Cloud’. |
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| Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Talking with Barton George, Cloud Computing Evangelist at Dell |
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| January 05 2011 |
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| In this interview, Dell Cloud Evangelist Barton David discusses:
Just do it - While some people are hung up arguing about what the cloud is, others are just using it to get stuff done.
Evolving to the cloud - Most organizations don't have the luxury to start from scratch.
Cloud security - People were opposed to entering their credit card in the early days of the internet, now it's common. Cloud security perceptions will follow a similar trajectory.
Cost isn't king - For many organizations, is the "try something quickly and fail fast" agility that's drawing people to the cloud, not just cost savings.
The datacenter ecosystem - The benefits of looking at the datacenter as a holistic system and not individual pieces.
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| SaaS and Cloud Computing Industry Presentations |
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| December 01 2010 |
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| THINKstrategies has produced a series of industry presentations which examine why SaaS/Cloud Computing matter; shy established vendors face serious challenges migrating to a SaaS/Cloud Computing business model; and the impact these trends are having on channel organizations. |
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| Grid, Cloud, HPC … What's the Difference? |
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| November 18 2010 |
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| Some view grid as a pre-cursor to cloud while others view it as a different beast only tangently related. This really comes down to a particular TLA in use to describe grid: High Performance Computing or HPC. HPC and grid are commonly used interchangeably. Cloud is not HPC, although now it can certainly support some HPC workloads, Amazon's EC@ HPC Offering. No, cloud is something a bit different: High Scalability Computing or HSC. |
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| The Cloud Disruptive Innovation: Managing the Business Transformation |
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| November 17 2010 |
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| Some innovations are evolutionary and bring about incremental improvements—sometimes even transformational improvements—in productivity, quality, competitive positioning, and market share. Other innovations impact—if rarely—an entire industry and business ecosystem with the disastrous potential of dislodging well-managed and successful companies who are leaders in their markets. In his book The Innovator's Solution, author Clayton Christensen defines a "Disruptive Innovation" as follows:
"An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumer's access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill."
We have seen several disruptive innovations in the past 100 years: |
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Enterprise as a Service (EaaS) - That’s Where BPM Comes In |
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| April 23 2010 |
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| Are you in the Larry Ellison camp and wonder, “What the hell is cloud computing?” And furthermore, do you wonder, “What does it have to do with BPM?” If these are questions you’ve asked in the middle of all the hype around cloud computing, Peter offers some answers. Read his Column for his take on how BPM sets enterprise cloud computing apart from consumer cloud computing and why it will provide a competitive advantage, in the 21st century, to companies that embrace it. |
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| Glossary of Terms for SaaS and Cloud Computing |
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| March 19 2010 |
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| The Managing Director at Montclair Advisors, Kevin Dobbs, shares a set of definitions for basic terms and concepts around Software-as-a-Service and Cloud Computing. |
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| John Qualls Explains Virtualization & Cloud Computing |
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| March 20 2009 |
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| John Qualls explains Virtualization & Cloud Computing |
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| What is Cloud Computing? |
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| February 25 2009 |
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| This Salesforce.com video explains what Cloud Computing is and why it's faster, lower cost and doesn't eat up your valuable IT resources. |
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| A Conversation About Cloud Computing |
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| February 10 2009 |
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| A Conversation about cloud computing between Berkely RAD Lab professors Armando Fox, Anthony Joseph, Randy Katz, and David Patterson. |
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| Dr Werner Vogels Explains Cloud Computing to TiburonTV. |
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| November 11 2008 |
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| Dr Werner Vogels explains Cloud Computing to TiburonTV. |
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| Joyant on Cloud Computing at eBay |
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| September 30 2008 |
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| eBay invited Joyent's CEO, David Young, to come in and speak to them about Cloud Computing. |
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| Cloud Computing Explained |
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| September 29 2008 |
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| Confused about the term Cloud Computing? Want to be with the times when you talk about new technology buzzwords? This video boils down a section of Cloud Computing, that of Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Hosting in a way that everyone can understand. |
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| Mabel and the Cloud |
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| April 28 2008 |
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| Mabel and the Cloud |
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| Demystifying The Cloud |
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| September 07 2012 |
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| This 55 page guide explains the concepts of Cloud Computing in simple terms. |
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Draft NIST Working Definition of Cloud Computing v15 |
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| October 22 2009 |
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| NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) is positioning its working definition of cloud computing that serves as a foundation for its upcoming publication on the topic. Computer scientists at NIST developed this draft definition in collaboration with industry and government. It was developed as the foundation for a NIST special publication that will cover cloud architectures, security, and deployment strategies for the federal government. |
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| A Taxonomy and Survey of Cloud Computing Systems |
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| August 25 2009 |
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| by Bhaskar Prasad Rimal, Eunmi Choi, Ian Lumb, In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Network Computing and Advanced Information Management and Service (NCM 2009), IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 44-51 This paper describes the taxonomy and survey of cloud computing. |
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| Book Report on the UC Berkeley Paper Above the Clouds |
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| April 17 2009 |
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| Microsoft's Pat Helland was so impressed with this report by the Berkeley RAD Lab that he created this presentation so its concepts could be understood by a broader audience within Microsoft. |
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Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing |
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| February 05 2009 |
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| Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing |
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An Early View of Cloud Computing |
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| January 02 2009 |
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| Capgemini's Cloud Computing Center of Excellence (CoE) helps Enterprise clients understand the opportunities and risks of Cloud Computing services. This paper describes what cloud computing is and discusses how Enterprises gain advantage from it. They also talk about real world examples, the future of Enterprise Cloud Computing, and recommendations on leveraging cloud computing for business. |
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| Cloud computing: reshaping IT market |
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| July 24 2011 - The Hindu | ||||
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| Cloud computing: How to get your business ready |
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| March 18 2011 - BBC | ||||
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| Clear up confusion on computing cloud |
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| March 16 2011 - The Montreal Gazette | ||||
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| Cloud Connect: Five Massive Cloud Computing Misconceptions |
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| March 09 2011 - CRN | ||||
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| The Game Is Always Changing: Non-technical Perspective on Cloud Computing |
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| February 17 2011 - Sys-Con Media | ||||
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| Pinning Down the Cloud |
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| February 15 2011 - Wall Street Journal | ||||
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| Clearing away the fog |
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| January 18 2011 - CRN | ||||
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| Cloud Computing: The Executive Summary |
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| December 30 2010 - PC World Business Center | ||||
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| How 10 Year Olds Explain Cloud Computing |
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| December 01 2010 - ReadWrite Cloud | ||||
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| 3 Infographics About Cloud Computing |
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| November 29 2010 - ReadWrite Cloud | ||||
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| Cloud Computing- Right For The Businesses And Individual Users |
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| October 31 2010 - Funny Colour | ||||
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| 'Defining the cloud' and other fun stories |
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| October 05 2010 - ZDNet | ||||
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