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Entries for the ‘Cloud Computing’ Category

Summer break

It’s been a hectic past month to say the least! First of all, I’ve been a proud father for about a month now and everything is fine on that front. Then again, we had a water damage (a forty year old weld let go) in our place and are currently trying to get permits from [...]

Dear Amazon, please make DevPay available in Europe!

So you have your great new application utilizing all the awesomeness of Amazon AWS? How you gonna sell it?
There are vague definitions of what is a cloud service and one of the prerequisites was that you could buy the service with your credit card and to pay only for the resources you use. Amazon DevPay [...]

Cloud converter, anyone?

It is 2010 now. This should be the year when cloud computing starts to live up to its expectations and to the hype generated all last year. What are the obstacles cloud vendors might face and will this year really be the year of Cloud?
Virtualization has made an impact in IT and though the [...]

State of cloud computing in Finland?

I’ve been keeping a close eye on what’s happening in the cloud computing scene in Finland ever since I jumped on the band wagon this summer. If there were some misunderstandings of whether the Sidekick (you remember, last fall the service went tits up and customers could not access their data) was a cloud offering, [...]

Deploying applications instead of Virtual Machines

I’ve been thinking the relationship between operating systems and the reason why they exist – the applications. How does PaaS fit into the future of computing or is IaaS just a stepping stone to a world without the traditional one server, one application approach?
Having a background with enterprise IT, I know something (but not much) [...]