Posts in category Cloud Computing
300 Windows 8 Features Microsoft hasn...
Thanks to the folks over at winrumors, we have a list of the cool things the software giant is developing. Some of them have already been covered at BUILD, but there’s a whole lot that haven’t.
Battery Life
Time/Battery/Date/Network status
Browser
Protection against app (…)/ malware scan
Apps are certified
Pre-boot reset
OEM A [...]
OnLive [Review]
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centralasian
Say you want to play a video game. What do you normally do? Go to the store, buy a game (and a console if you don’t have one), then go home and play it. If you play on a PC, you might get to skip having to go to the store and just download it. The problem is, to play a game, you need a dedicated machine (either a console, or an [...]
Tablets and Cloud Computing
Uncrate
With the release of Apple’s iPad, BlackBerry’s Playbook, and Toshiba, HP, and Dell joining the fray, I have to wonder whether this is another gimmick, or a fundamental change in the industry.
In recent years, we’ve been changing from laptops to netbooks. This was bound to happen because first, we don’t really need a powerful computer [...]
Cloud Computing Plain and Simple
Ivan Welsh
Cloud Computing has received attention ever since it first came out, and this publicity and usage has been steadily rising ever since. What surprises me though, is that a lot of people talk about “The Cloud,” but don’t really know what it is, or what it does. Thankfully, we can learn what cloud computing is in under 5 minutes, jus [...]
The Cloud, Part III: The future of cl...
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Jamison Judd
Having gone through the history of cloud computing, and the current state of cloud computing, we now turn our attention to the future of this new computing medium.
Like I’ve said before, cloud computing isn’t new, it’s a 21st century mainframe. It’s also the best thing that going to happen to comput [...]
The Cloud, Part II: Cloud computing n...
Cloud computing now isn’t really about using “the cloud” so much as laying the foundations for its lofty goals. We’re figuring out what we can and can’t do with the cloud, and more importantly, what we should and shouldn’t. Because of this, it seems as if cloud computing is moving slowly, and in many ways, I guess this is true. But the [...]
The Cloud, Part I: What is it?
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Cloud computing is all the rage in Silicon Valley. It’s the next big thing, promising a revolution in computing, a road to the future, and the end of compatibility issues. It will usher in a utopian computing environment, where everything will truly be plug-and-play, and will “just work”. It’s being embr [...]
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