Tag Archives: Cloud Computing

Clouds, Costs, and Data Analytics

There are more and more companies using, or seriously considering, cloud based services. It’s a way to reduce some of the infrastructure costs, especially the initial investment costs, for many applications that have highly variable workloads. There’s also the tremendous … Continue reading

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The Cloud

This editorial was originally published on Sept 11, 2007. It is being re-run as Steve is on holiday. I was interested to hear about Microsoft providing some services and storage in the “Cloud.” I remember hearing about Amazon making disk space and computing … Continue reading

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Making New Infrastructure Investments

I was at a cloud conference recently, learning about the different ways in which people are starting to use cloud services. To be clear, I know that the cloud is nothing new, but it does have the potential to change the … Continue reading

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The TCO of the Cloud

I know that many of you don’t want to put your databases in the cloud. There are definitely concerns for many applications that might have identity, financial, medical, or other data. However there are many other types of applications that … Continue reading

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