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Entries Tagged as 'Cloud Computing'

Falling through clouds

August 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off

Everyone knows the big virtues of using cloud computing services: They’re cheap, you can scale them on demand, and they’re fault-tolerant. Everyone also thinks they know cloud computing’s vices: a variety of security and management concerns. What a lot of people have been missing, though, is that there’s another real problem with cloud computing: legal [...]

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Tags: Amazon · Business · Cloud Computing · Infrastructure · Legal

Ubuntu Linux Brings IBM DB2 to the cloud

July 21st, 2010 · Comments Off

Portland, OR- Canonical., the company behind Ubuntu, has always had many user and developer fans. Enterprise business fans though? Not so much. Canonical hopes to change that with today’s, July 21st, launch of a virtual appliance of IBM’s DB2 Express-C software running on the Ubuntu cloud computing platform in private and public cloud configurations. The [...]

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Tags: Business · Canonical · Cloud Computing · Database · IBM · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System

Linuxcare returns with focus in the cloud

May 18th, 2010 · Comments Off

Back in Linux’s early days, Linuxcare emerged as the first important Linux support company. In 1998, the company made headlines not just in the technology press but in mainstream business publications like the Wall Street Journal as the company that would help businesses switch over to Linux. It was not to last. Poor top management [...]

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Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System

Ubuntu 10.04: Where Ubuntu goes from here

April 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments

The new Ubuntu release is almost here and I like the Ubuntu 10.04 desktop a lot. As a Linux expert, it’s a little too simple for my personal tastes, but it’s the best beginner Linux out of the box I’ve ever seen. That’s all well and good, but where Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company really hopes [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Business · Canonical · Cloud Computing · Desktop · Linux · Open Source · Operating System · Server

Linux on the Cloud: IBM, Novell & Red Hat

March 16th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Today, March 16th, has been filled with Linux and cloud news. Which is great, I guess, if you’re ready to trust your data to the cloud. In case you don’t follow Linux as closely as I do, here’s the round-up. Red Hat and Novell have joined up with IBM to provide a new open cloud [...]

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Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · IBM · Infrastructure · Linux · Novell · Operating System · Red Hat