Posts Tagged ‘application need

Cloud computing offers significant benefits, but will account for only a fifth of overall enterprise IT by 2012 and will leave many businesses disappointed, a Gartner analyst has claimed.

Speaking at Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Cannes, Gartner vice president David Cearley said that by 2012, 20% of businesses would be using cloud computing for part of [...]

The rise of Web-based apps, virtualization, and a crop of powerful mobile devices have the traditional PC desktop on the run.

Well, is it? If all the buzzwords about cloud computing, Web apps, software as a service (SaaS), the free desktop, and the rise of netbooks and tablet PCs, are to be believed, it [...]

Inspired by Gilad’s great summary on the Cloud Programming model, I try to summarize the difference that I observe between the traditional SaaS model and the “cloud-enabled SaaS model”. Although cloud providers advocates zero effort is need to migrate existing applications into the cloud, it is my belief that this “strict-port” approach doesn’t fully [...]


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