Tag Archives: Cloud computing

Despite the decelerating of world economy, there are many tech giants who are competing for a bigger piece of the cloud. Some of the tech biggies such as Amazon.com, Salesforce.com, Microsoft, SAP and Oracle are competing with each other to have the biggest share of cloud computing. It's the internet 'cloud' through which users access their ...

Findings of a survey conducted by a division of Information Today Inc., Unisphere Research, with 262 enterprise IT and data managers, on use of cloud technology within the enterprise section. The survey findings indicate that there has been a significant increase in the number of enterprises (37% from 29%) running or piloting private clouds. Around 26% ...

We belong to a world where technology is fast changing, and one area which has seen tremendous growth is cloud computing. This technology has helped and benefited many business enterprises to grow and improve on their efficiencies. It has also been adopted by the health care industry, which has resulted in great benefits to the ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) cut down prices by 26% on its Windows on-demand EC2 instances, a move it took within hours of Google having slashed prices by 4% on its Google Compute Engine instances (GCE instances). OpenStack Grizzly has come as a better alternative to AWS. Amazon, who introduced cloud computing for public, and it’s wanna-be ...

Google has now made Google Compute Engine accessible to everyone in answer to its rival – Amazon’s seminal EC2 cloud computing service. It was announced on Thursday that Google will now give access to its Compute Engine to the subscribers of its ‘Gold Support’ program. It will be providing a 24/7 access to Google support engineers ...

Data management is important for any business for its enhanced efficiency. However, with each day your data is bound to increase, which may become difficult for you to manage. Today, data management has been made easy with cloud computing and many enterprises have accepted cloud based services for managing their data. Some who have not, ...

Apple now uses clean power sourced via on-site solar farm and fuel cells farm for powering its iCloud services, handled at the Maiden data center, North Carolina. The solar panel farm and adjacently lying fuel cell farms are now providing nearly 60% of the power to Apple’s $1 billion, 500,000 square-foot data center in Maiden, North ...

Big Data is the exponentially growing streams of data, which needs to be processed with the help of new technologies and techniques, to bring enterprise-wide visibility and insights to make quick critical business decisions. To explain it in very simple terms – Huge amounts of Data need to be processed at the right ...

Microsoft data center stores all the data of Windows Azure storage and all Windows Azure applications. Windows Azure Fabric Controller controls and manages the servers, the set of machines which are dedicated to Windows Azure and the software that runs on the Microsoft Data Center.  The Windows Azure Fabric Controller is a distributed application that is ...

Data is used by applications in many different ways. Or to say, application performs with the data in many different ways. Windows Azure storage provides various options for the applications to store data on Windows Azure. Blobs (Binary Large Object) are the simplest way to store data in Windows Azure storage. Blobs stores data inform of ...