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View all →May 21, 2013
14 Things to Consider When Choosing a Cloud Provider – Part 2
In Part 1 of my 2-part series “14 Things to Consider When Choosing a Cloud Provider” I walked you through several important evaluation criteria that you should consider when choosing a cloud provider. The topics covered in Part 1 are: Performance, Breadth of Service Offering, Ease of Use, Price, Support, SLA and Security. Do note that these items are not…
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May 14, 2013
14 Things to Consider When Choosing a Cloud Provider – Part 1
You should all know by now that the cloud is here to stay. It may be in one form or another and in various flavors (infrastructure, platform or application) and it may not be called "cloud" in a few years, but the concept of on-demand, pay-as-you-go, Internet-delivery, scalable, as-a-service functionality will persist. It's efficient, it's cost effective and it is…
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March 22, 2013
15 Top Cloud Computing Use Cases
Cloud computing is established. And it has been proven by small and large businesses alike. Over the past 5 or so years, I have seen all types of companies adopting cloud computing as both primary and secondary sets of on-demand compute. Some cloud computing use cases are pretty traditional (e.g., a simple web presence) while others become extremely complex and…
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February 14, 2013
The 10 Best (and Worst) “Cloud Computing Explained” Videos on YouTube
Cloud Computing has been around for many, many years now. Ok, at least 5 years using the name "cloud computing." Ever since this new way of consuming compute, networking, storage and other infrastructure resources got off the ground, no pun intended...well, sort of...people and companies have tried to explain what exactly it is. From the barrage of written definitions "officially"…
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