Poll Results On Esri Arcgis Online Vs Google Earth Builder, And New Poll On Cloud Gis

Thanks to Andrew who found out that the poll engine was strangely behaving, it gave me an excuse to offer you a new poll on 'cloud GIS'.

The previous poll on Esri ArcGIS Online vs Google Earth Builder generated 213 votes. 42% of users anticipate that both will be successes in their own way, and funnily enough, two distinct groups made of 24% of users believe that one will prevail on the other. For what's left, 7% think neither will gain momentum and there's even 2% of users that wish that Bing Maps will prevail over the two front runners.

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Poll Results on Esri ArcGIS Online vs Google Earth Builder, and New Poll on Cloud GIS

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Cloud Gis Is?

Just a buzz word that will pass away

Useful only to a few

Will eventually rule Enterprise GIS

The natural evolution of GIS

The Cloud will engulf everything

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Cloud GIS is?

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Slashgeo: Poll Results On Esri Arcgis Online Vs Google Earth Builder, And New Poll On Cloud Gis

Thanks to Andrew who found out that the poll engine was strangely behaving, it gave me an excuse to offer you a new poll on 'cloud GIS'.

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Slashgeo: Poll Results on Esri ArcGIS Online vs Google Earth Builder, and New Poll on Cloud GIS

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Slashgeo: Poll Results On Esri Arcgis Online Vs Google Earth Builder, And New Poll On Cloud Gis

Thanks to Andrew who found out that the poll engine was strangely behaving, it gave me an excuse to offer you a new poll on 'cloud GIS'.

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Slashgeo: Poll Results on Esri ArcGIS Online vs Google Earth Builder, and New Poll on Cloud GIS

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Slashgeo: Cloud Gis Is?

Just a buzz word that will pass away

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Slashgeo: Cloud GIS is?

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A Review Of Cloud Computing Security: Virtualization, Side-channel Attacks, And Management

In recent years cloud computing has become a growing interest for organizations looking to reduce their IT costs by offloading infrastructure and software costs onto 3rd party organizations who offer Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) (e.g. Google Apps), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) (e.g. Google App Engine), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) (e.g. Amazon EC2). However, due to the relative infancy of cloud based computing services, there exists uncertainty about the level of information security offered by these services. IaaS cloud services are largely reliant on virtualization technology, which is seen as providing all the security and process isolation a customer might want.

A Review of Cloud Computing Security: Virtualization, Side-Channel Attacks, and Management

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With Itunes In The Cloud, Apple Under-promises And Over-delivers

As the summer winds down and we near the fall, we know two things are for sure about to enter existence in the world of Apple: iOS 5 and iCloud. Given that both offer third-party developers various opportunities, both are in the process of being tested by that community. And that means things are starting to leak out. Tonight brought perhaps the biggest surprise revelation yet: iTunes in the Cloud will support streaming as well as downloading of music. Now, before everyone works themselves into a tizzy yelling "FIRST!!!", yes, it's true that other music services have offered cloud-based streaming before — notably both Google Music Beta and Amazon Cloud Player this past summer. But neither of those is iTunes, the largest music retailer on the planet (online or "offline"). And there are plenty of other services that are streaming-only. It now seems certain that this fall, iTunes will offer both cloud downloading and cloud streaming.

With iTunes In The Cloud, Apple Under-Promises And Over-Delivers

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How Microsoft It Moving To The Cloud To Meet And Exceed The Needs Of The Business?

Microsoft IT is investing in Microsoft cloud offerings at every level to meet and exceed the needs of the business.

How Microsoft IT Moving to the Cloud to Meet and Exceed the Needs of the Business?

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Amazon's Cloud Business Is Growing Like Crazy (AMZN)

Amazon's cloud business is growing like crazy, and could hit $1 billion in revenue next year according to analysts, Reuters reports. 

Right now Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing unit, is small enough that Amazon doesn't report its revenue, but according to estimates, it generated $500 million in revenue last year and will do $750 million this year--a 50% growth rate, which is impressive for such a large unit.

If Amazon really hits these milestones it will be a big event not just for the company, but for the cloud computing industry in general.

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Amazon's Cloud Business Is Growing Like Crazy (AMZN)

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Microsoft Private Cloud Security Overview [Webcast Video]

Nick Torkington, Security Architect with Microsoft Services, in this video below answers the most common security concerns CxOs and other business decision-makers have when evaluating the Microsoft platform to build a private Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud.

Microsoft Private Cloud Security Overview [Webcast Video]

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Box.net Integrates Google Docs and Spreadsheets Into Its Cloud Platform

Box.net, a cloud storage and collaboration service today launched an in-depth integration with Google's Docs and Spreadsheets directly within the platform. This is aimed to taken on its competitor Microsoft SharePoint.

Box.net Integrates Google Docs and Spreadsheets Into Its Cloud Platform

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Comment on Can Apple Make the Cloud Work for Consumers? by Eddie

> the company views “the Mac as the center of your device-driven > life.” Yeah, well, that has all changed since the keynote. This article is now deprecated.

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Comment on The last things missing from Apple’s perfect cloud storm by Eddie

Good observations! Many others will want iMessage and Notification Center parity between iOS and OS X and so logically it makes sense that it will be available sooner than later.

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Steve Jobs Announces iTunes In The Cloud (AAPL)

Apple announced iTunes in the Cloud at WWDC today.

The music service will allow you to get all your music pushed to any iOS device.

Here's how it works:

• All the songs you've purchased on iTunes will show up as "purchased" in the iTunes store.

• Any purchased song can be downloaded from the cloud to your iOS device

• iCloud will be free.

• iTunes Match: Will scan your library for music ripped from CDs or downloaded elsewhere. You can then stream that music to your iOS device.

• iTunes Match will cost $25 per year to use. That one flat price will get you unlimited use.

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Comment on Can Apple Make the Cloud Work for Consumers? by Ed

I wouldn't bet against Apple either, but it will be very interesting to see how they get around the rapaciousness of the ATTs and Verisons of this world. It seems to me that the only reason for storing your music in the cloud is the desire to download on demand to portable devices Local storage would be desirable for a computer. So there you have it, download to your I device and run the gauntlet of outrageous data charges or store on a local drive and sync your music at home. Perhaps Apple has come up with a way to circumvent the phone companies, I hope so.

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Should a Web Startup Go Straight To the Cloud?

Javaman59 writes "I am a one person company developing a web site from home. The site is hoped to attract millions of accounts and daily hits (just to give an idea of the scale of things, as its important to the question). My infrastructure is currently Visual Studio 2010 on a PC. To progress the site I need to set up version control, continuous integration, and staging. I have a Win2008 server VM, with all the Windows software (free and legal) to do this. However, I am only just competent as a Win admin, and I foresee each step of the way (setting up a domain; SQL-Server, etc) as a slow, risky process, and a big disruption to development. Should I forget my VM server (it will make a nice games machine!) and just go straight to the cloud for all my infrastructure?"

Should a Web Startup Go Straight To the Cloud?

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Comment on Cloud Computing and the 10X Effect by Eddie

This is a nicely written article (especially for people who are peripheral to cutting edge IT) - I might have titled it differently since its not merely a factor of 10 but the article describes scales (I'd use "orders of magnitude").

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Cloud Computing and the 10X Effect

In the IT industry, technology and the usage evolves faster than in perhaps any other industry. As a rule of thumb, systems can grow 10 times under their current architecture or paradigm, then they must be re-architected. This 10X effect causes old technologies to become obsolete and new ones to emerge. It also underlies the massive shift to cloud computing.

Cloud Computing and the 10X Effect

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Comment on Would You Pay for Apple’s Cloud Music Service? by Glenn

I'd happily pay a modest fee for cloud services so long as its got fork knox security and backed up. A modest fee is not that of MobileMe, which I only use a fraction of thanks to DropBox which takes care of my main cloud use. If my music goes to the cloud, I'd like to see a simple easy way to get it there, such as uploading my iTunes database not the actual raw music files itself because Apple could just provide the digital music to match my database so I'm not suddenly trying to upload gigabytes of files. Makes sense?

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Comment on Would You Pay for Apple’s Cloud Music Service? by Dan

I agree with your idea. I am currently a MobileMe subscriber, but if it doesn't go free or significantly reduce in price (at its current features), I may not renew this fall. Google Apps is increasing in features and reliability - and its free!

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