Investment in Cloud Computing, SaaS (On-Demand Software) Accelerating; SalesForce.com Leads the Way in Innovation

A cloud, of course, is a visible mass of droplets or frozen crystals floating in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. A cloud is also a visible mass attracted by gravity. Lately, Cloud Computing has been exerting a strong gravitational pull of its own, and has been attracting a [...]

Back to the Future – With Midori is Microsoft Aiming to Deliver “Cairo” for Cloud Computing?

It’s “Back to the Future” time at Microsoft, folks. In 1992 the GoogleGazer wrote a long piece on ‘The Road to Cairo” about Microsoft’s plans for an Object File Store (OFS) an object-oriented database designed to make it easy to search documents and other structured data by content no matter where located. It was announced [...]

Elastra Brings Virtual Mainframe to Cloud Computing

Elastra is interesting cloud-based middleware that aims to make scalability almost transparent. They partner with Amazon, MySQL, Postgre SQL, and EnterpriseDB, and are funded by Hummer Winblad. The GoogleGazer expects that we’ll hear more of them and others like them.

Cloud Computing – Is It Old Mainframe Bess in a New Dress?

Cloud Computing presages a fundamental paradigm shift that will have as powerful an effect on society as the Internet itself.

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