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Amazon EC2 AWS Management Console – Bundling AMIs

This is the fourth part of my review of the AWS Management Console, Amazon's cloud management tool. Last time,...
Amazon EC2 AWS Management Console – Volumes and snapshots

In the last article in my review of Amazon's AWS Management Console, I described how an Instance (virtual machine)...
Amazon EC2 AWS Management Console – Configuring and launching Instances

In the last post in my review of Amazon's AWS Management Console, I introduced Amazon's new cloud management tool,...
Amazon EC2 AWS Management Console – Amazon’s cloud management tool reviewed

Some months ago, I shared my first impressions about Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). On the one hand I...
Private Cloud Computing – Why this term makes perfect sense

Steve Clayton, a blogger working in the Software + Service field at Microsoft, criticizes the term "private cloud" in...
Cloud computing, Starbucks, taxis, and the truth about pay-as-you-go pricing

I stumbled upon a nice Youtube video about cloud computing (at the end of the text). It provides no...
The ever ongoing race between cloud and on-premise computing

Gartner Analyst Nick Jones posted an interesting article in his blog with the title The cloud computing fantasy. Contrary...
Is cloud computing secure? Pro and contra cloud security

I have stumbled across quite a few articles discussing the security of cloud computing lately. Opponents of cloud computing...
Windows in the cloud – First impressions of Amazon EC2 – Part 2: My view

In my last article about Amazon EC2 I outlined how a Windows server is installed in the cloud. The...
Windows in the cloud – First impressions of Amazon EC2 – Part 1: Installation

Cloud computing is currently the number one hype topic. Many believe that it will replace on-premise computing over the...
Is cloud computing a threat for Windows?

Some days ago, I linked to a nice poem about cloud computing. I think it expresses nicely the confusion...
I never really believed that web apps would be a serious threat to Windows. But since I’ve seen icloud,...
Move your servers to the cloud?

When it comes to cloud computing, most people think about hosted applications running somewhere in a big data center....
There is an interesting article about on-demand computing at BusinessWeek. Most texts you read about this topic these days...
Windows 7 news and some speculations about Windows in the cloud

Windows 7 is still far, far away, but the interest in Microsoft’s next operating system is growing steadily. I...
First impressions of Adobe AIR – Can RIAs replace desktop apps?

The final of Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) has been available for some days now. I was curious enough to...
Microsoft Online Services – Move your Exchange and Sharepoint servers to the cloud?

Bill Gates announced on Monday that Microsoft will offer online business services to companies of all sizes. At the...
Will cloud computing render IT administrators jobless?

NETWORWORLD has a review about Niccholas Carrs's new book where he argues that the IT department is dead. Carr...
What is online editing?

Todd Bishop blogged about Steve Ballmer's recent statements concerning the competition between Microsoft and Google. Bishop gave an assessment...