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Cloud Computing: The New Timesharing
In the late 1980′s, timeshared computing resources allowed enterprises to gain reliable, high-performing computing services without the overhead of in-house computing infrastructure. Cloud computing targets the same enterprises, however, without the lock-in or inherent “stickyness” that timeshared computing service providers created and benefitted from. The commoditisation of cloud services has been able to go further [...]
May 27th, 2010 | Filed under e-government -
Differentiating Between Google Products
There are a number of Google products that sound like they share the same name and as such confusion may arise between what’s what. So here is a brief of explanation of the most commonly confused Google offerings. Google Apps: This is a set of online office productivity tools like email, chat, word processing, spreadsheets [...]
Dec 20th, 2009 | Filed under Cloud Computing, TechnicalTags: cloudcomputing