What is Cloud Computing?
I was talking to a friend yesterday about this very topic - he asked me what it was - and then I read a post on ZDnet that I thought was going to tell me the answer. Here's the post: What's Cloud Computing and What's Not? However, the post just told me there was a lot of debate about the issue and that a task force was working towards a definitive definition. Not much use, so I thought I would add to the corpus of articles and definitions by publishing my (Emissary's) definition of Cloud Computing.
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Conflict Resolution: Syncplicity vs Live Mesh
Everything was going well until Syncplicity told me that I had exceeded my storage quota. This was strange because I only had 1.6Gb of files to sync and I had a 2Gb account. The problem lay in the way Syncplicity handled conflicts, and here's how I dealt with it.
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Cloud Storage: On SugarSync, DropBox & Live Mesh
This article is a report on my recent experience with "going virtual" using the Cloud-based synchronisation tools SugarSync, DropBox and Live Mesh. Results are generally promising, although there were a few teething problems, and I have included pointers for you if you are experiencing similar issues.
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Cloud Computing vs Dedicated Servers
No matter what the name, you, the developer, will still be dealing with reliability and accountability. Using someone else's infrastructure for your application will forever be a business risk. So, is Cloud Computing the way forward, or is it too early to tell?
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