Wikipedia is amazing. People explain what things are and how things work, usually in a simplified manner. I looked up cloud computing and got lost in the first sentence. I figured I should rewrite the definitive guide on what on “earth” cloud computing is, in a way even my parents could understand. :) Let’s travel […]
Posted on June 10, 2008, 10:24 am, by David Thomson, under
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I attended a very interesting panel discussion yesterday evening called “An Evening in the Cloud” at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference at the Westin on the Waterfront in Boston. It was a sort of conversational panel between vendors of cloud computing platforms (”Cloud Players”), namely Google, SalesForce.com (through Force.com), and Amazon Web Services, and a group […]
There have been numerous announcements recently from Google and Microsoft related to storing health information on their servers in their grid. There has also been some controversy around these initiatives over privacy concerns, particularly because it comes from these two companies where they have already consolidated a lot of other information and leverage with respect […]