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- Cloud computing commuters and the future of London
- There may be another migration of London workers away from the centre, but this time they won't be commuting back by omnibus as in Victorian times. With revenues down, London firms will survive by mimicking startups, cutting fewer jobs and reducing overheads by computing and commuting in the cloud. So says Mark Williams, Extrasys team leader.
- Keywords: Mark's posts, business, cloud computing, credit crisis, credit crunch, extrasys, history, home worker, london, Remote working
- The Force is strong in Cloud City
- Cloud computing is certainly being taken seriously by big enterprises now, and Salesforce.com are marketing their Force.com software platform to them with a vengeance; but is their technology any good? Mark Williams reports from a round table forum at the City's tallest building.
- Keywords: Mark's posts, cloud computing, extrasys, hosted IT services, microsoft, salesforce.com, software as a service, software plus services
- UK cloud commuters crack on as snow falls
- As South-east England has the worst snow it has seen for 18 years, Mark Williams stays at home and carries on business as usual using Extrasys's Windows-based cloud computing platform.
- Keywords: Mark's posts, cloud computing, commuting, extrasys, Hosted Desktop, linux, national rail, nx client, public transport, uk travel, uk weather
- Cultivating Cloud Computing Business: “Shut up and listen” (Part 1)
- Why did the cloud computing market take so long to develop? Perhaps one of the most significant factors was effective communication. It's time to stop banging on about the benefits of cloud computing and start listening to the customer.
- Keywords: Tom's posts, Application Service Provider, cloud computing, Consultative Sales Process, extrasys, Hosted Desktop, hosted IT services, software as a service
- Cloud computing market size forecasts
- Is Cloud Computing a storm in a marketing teacup or will it go the way of the last 'next big thing'? Is it here to stay and how big will the market become within the next 3 years? Mark Williams does a bit of research and reveals his findings.
- Keywords: Mark's posts, cloud computing, extrasys
- Amazon Web Services is changing its business model
- Michal Pawlowski reports on the new Amazon Web Services Management Console. Amazon, it seems, are now cutting out the middle men who have made a business from selling user interfaces to their Elastic Computing Cloud.
- Keywords: Michal's posts, amazon, aws, cloud computing, ec2, management console
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is finally 20ms away
- Michal Pawlowski reports on the European launch of Amazon's EC2 service, and he details the measurements he made that show the significant reductions in latency that come with using servers based in Europe rather than the United States.
- Keywords: Michal's posts, amazon, cloud computing, ec2, extrasys, latency, revenue
- Silver lining the computing cloud for Softcat
- Softcat's Dave Simpson says that "cloud computing is the business to be in" and Mark Williams couldn't agree more, saying "it seems that software license providers are realising too that hosted pay-per-use IT services are becoming more and more popular with businesses, especially in the current economic climate".
- Keywords: Mark's posts, citrix, cloud computing, extrasys, microsoft, softcat, vmware
- UML – why use it?
- Michal Pawlowski explains why the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is such a useful and popular tool in a software developer's toolbox.
- Keywords: Michal's posts, mda, model driven architecture, model view controller, mvc, software development, uml
- Cloud Computing calls in the Credit Crunch
- Mark Williams asserts that the current global economic crisis will lead to widespread adoption of cloud computing technologies in the next few years. Scaleable, pay-as-you-go, hosted IT services are suddenly more attractive in these uncertain times for businesses.
- Keywords: Mark's posts, cloud computing, credit crisis, credit crunch, extrasys, hosted IT services, information age, saas, software as a service, software plus services