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Entries Tagged as 'Cloud'

Cloud first, mobile first, social first

July 29th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Adobe, Technology

TweetThe AdobeĀ® Digital Enterprise Platform (ADEP) Experience Server supports WAN clustering (important in high latency situations and given distributed infrastructure), hot cluster join (allowing you to expand infrastructure on the fly), and runs in a very small memory and CPU footprint. This makes the Experience Server suitable for deployment in the cloud, whether actual deployments [...]

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Atmos

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Technology

TweetOn Monday EMC announced Atmos. While I was in flight, returning from a short vacation, a number of my EMC colleagues blogged about this new offering. I’d like to draw your attention to their posts as follows: Steve Todd first offers, among other things, a concise definition of Cloud Optimized Storage (COS): “global storage with [...]

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Azure is like NT

November 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Services, Technology

TweetDuring the first keynote of PDC last week, Bob Muglia associated this year’s PDC with the 1992 PDC, which featured the coming out of Windows NT. (I still think of “WNT” as “V++ M++ S++”, given David Cutler‘s leadership on both operating systems.) I think there is much to draw from this comparison where the [...]

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Getting the clouds to rain (add value)

October 27th, 2008 · Comments Off · Services, Technology

Tweet Certainly the vision of Windows Azure (aka “Red Dog”) and the Azure Services Platform is substantial. However, in order for Microsoft, its partners and customers to realize it, it must deliver business value. Internal or external, cloud computing has to address a set of real business problems in order to become a relevant part [...]

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Head in the clouds

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Services, Technology

TweetIt appears that a majority of what I plan to attend at this year’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is focused on cloud computing. Today, for example, I plan to attend the following sessions: Keynote – Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson A Lap around Windows Azure “Dublin” and .NET Services: Extending [...]

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