Get your head around SaaS
You may avoid putting your data into Amazon.com Inc.'s S3 cloud-based storage repository. You may eschew its EC2 on-demand compute services. But if your supply chain partners or IT services suppliers utterly depend on SaaS for their operations, you do, too.
Dell loses bid for 'cloud computing' trademark
Dell cannot register "cloud computing" as a trademark because the term is a generic one describing services offered by many companies, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has said in an initial ruling.
In denying Dell's application, the USPTO included dozens of news stories and other material supporting its contention that cloud computing is a widely-used term of art for the technology industry.
Diving deep into Amazon Web Services
Amazon's Web Services (AWS) are based on a simple concept: Amazon has built a globe-spanning hardware and software infrastructure that supports the company's Internet business, so why not modularize components of that infrastructure and rent them? More specifically, AWS makes various chunks of Amazon's business machinery accessible and usable via REST or SOAP-based Web service calls.
Report: Cloud computing poised for enterprise adoption
Gartner has named cloud computing, green IT and social-computing platforms among technologies that are poised to reach broad enterprise adoption in the next two to five years.
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