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PHP API for Cloud Application Services
Zend Technologies, calling themselves The PHP Company, has launched the open source Simple API for Cloud Application Services project intended to help PHP developers creating applications consuming services from all major clouds. Microsoft has contributed with Windows Azure SDK for PHP Developers.
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CloudCrowd - A 100% Ruby Cloud Solution
DocumentCloud is a non-profit organization which provides document-based applications. With highly expensive processing tasks to accomplish in parallel, DocumentCloud decided to implement its own cloud solution in Ruby: CloudCrowd. InfoQ spoke with the author, Jeremy Ashkenas of DocumentCloud, to learn more.
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How Does SOA Relate to Cloud Computing?
A recent session, part of ebizQ's Cloud QCamp, discussed the current state and relationship between cloud computing and SOA. The consensus of the panelists was that the cloud is helping to boost the advantages promised by service orientation to a firmer business footing.
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Faster Ruby Test Execution With Devver
Devver is a new service that runs your Ruby tests in parallel on their cloud infrastructure. InfoQ talked to Ben Brinckerhoff from Devver to understand how they can speed up your tests.
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PHP and Microsoft's Cloud
Microsoft is continuing to court the PHP market with drivers. With the newest offerings, Microsoft is adding support for SQL Azure, their cloud-computing platform.
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SpringSource Cloud Foundry is Launched
Continuing their push integrating Java and cloud technologies, SpringSource today announced the release of the SpringSource Cloud Foundry. The website enables easy deployment of Java web applications to cloud platforms such as Amazon EC2.
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Patterns for Moving to the Cloud
A new Tech Ed presentation by Simon Guest defines a set of patterns for moving applications to the cloud and discusses implementation of these patterns using Windows Azure
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Google Chose Jetty for App Engine
Google App Engine was initially using Apache Tomcat as their webserver/servlet container but eventually switched to Jetty.
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Role Of REST In IT And Cloud Management - A Comparison Of Cloud API's
In a recent article, William Vambenepe, compares four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see the practical value of REST in IT/Cloud management.
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4 Office Applications Will Be on the Web: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote
Microsoft wants to take Office 2010 to the web offering some lightweight Office applications running inside the browser.
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HotPads Shows the True Cost of Hosting on Amazon
HotPads abandoned its managed hosting in December and took the leap over to EC2 and its siblings. In this presentation, Matthew Corgan, shares a lot of detail on costs and other things to watch out for which could help you plan your "cloud" architecture.
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IBM Updates Cloud Strategy and Offerings
IBM announces three new ways for businesses to utilize cloud computing: standardized services on the IBM cloud, private cloud services behind the firewall (managed by the business or IBM) and Cloud burst a way to seamless incorporate secure public clouds to accommodate "overflow" demand for services.
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More Clouds Gather on the Horizon
Adobe has readied Acrobat.com, IBM has presented their cloud offering, while Oracle will use Sun Cloud to join their ranks. If there was a doubt about it, now it is obvious that cloud computing is the future of enterprise IT.
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REST is a style -- WOA is the architecture.
Dion Hinchcliffe discusses Web Architecture and the relationship of REST practices and principles in the construction of a Web Oriented Architecture (WOA). The relationship between WOA and SOA is also explored.
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Interview: Eric Nelson on VS 2010 and .NET 4.0
In this interview Eric Nelson talks about what’s coming in VS 2010, the C# – VB.NET convergence, the introduction of Parallel as a library, and Azure cloud computing.