Cloud Computing

Andrea on September 4th, 2011

While browsing I came across the NIST definition of Cloud computing. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (part of the U.S. Department of Commerce) has proposed this: Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) [...]

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Andrea on April 26th, 2011

One of the best joke I have seen on Cloud Computing. It symbolizes the current management knowledge, a lot of potential is seen, but it remains mostly a big question mark. To the skeptics, it is another to make you pay Virtualization services more than they should, o a marketing reminiscence of SaaS or, worse, ASP…

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Andrea on October 2nd, 2010

Using SoapUI you can easily test the invocation of the getLocationByZip, by filling out the input parameter in the ‘Request 1′ box. In my case I will enter 94709 by changing line <zip xsi:type=”xsd:string”>?</zip> into <zip xsi:type=”xsd:string”>94709</zip> By clicking on the green ‘play’ button on the upper left, you will get back the response, in [...]

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The best article I found on the web about key metrics in Software as a Service business models. Starting from the Profitability, Cash and Growth basic pillars goes into a lot of depth to explain what should matter and why.  http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics/

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Andrea on April 12th, 2010

Cloud vs. in-house: Where to run that app? http://shar.es/msGQv

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