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Entries from July 2009

New Era in Internet Search – Google vs Bing

July 30th, 2009 · Comments Off

This week marks the beginning of a new era in Internet search. For the first time in modern Internet history, there is a number 2 with sizable market share. This is going to become interesting once Bing and Yahoo! finish integration.
I switched to Google Search many years ago because it was the best – its [...]

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Tags: Internet

Evaluating Cloud Computing from Buy vs Rent Perspective

July 27th, 2009 · Comments Off

What is driving people, projects and organizations to adopt cloud computing?
There is no single answer. Everyone’s situation is different, and everyone assigns different weights to different factors. But what is common in “to cloud or not to cloud” decision making is that fundamentally it’s like buy vs rent in housing.
*aaS is all about rent vs [...]

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Tags: cloud computing

Developer’s Attempt to Define Cloud Computing

July 6th, 2009 · 6 Comments

I have been closely following cloud computing for many months now. As a developer, I get often frustrated by lack of clear and widely accepted definition of what cloud computing actually is. This is a problem, because without a definition, every imaginable operation performed over the Internet all of a sudden became a “cloud.” It [...]

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Tags: cloud computing · software engineering