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Archive for the ‘Cloud Computing’ Category

Fronde breathes in Google Atmosphere

Posted by damien.kelly on April 27th, 2012

Google Atmosphere on Tour was not your usual conference. Action packed with business leaders debating, discussing and rethinking the way we do business - but this was no ordinary (bore fest) confer

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Wouldn’t it be good to have a SimCity in the real world?

Posted by luke.kershaw on April 27th, 2012

Cast your mind back 23 years to 1989... It was the end of a rather forgettable decade of big hair, bad music and outrageous clothing. It heralded the beginning of the post–Cold War period and the

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Initial Impressions of Salesforce

Posted by Megan Heyward on December 23rd, 2011

Megan is one of our newest Frondies and offers her impressions of one of our oldest cloud offerings. I am new to Fronde and am excited to be here. Fronde has had tremendous growth over the

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Living the Dreamforce

Posted by Paul Armstrong on September 7th, 2011

I have just been lucky enough to spend the week in San Francisco at the annual Salesforce Dreamforce event. With 45,000 attendees this was the biggest IT event of its kind, ever; and when you're deep

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Fronde to Assist Canterbury Businesses

Posted by Helen Mills on March 15th, 2011

Fronde to Assist Canterbury Businesses  by Offering Free Google Apps Services Canterbury businesses can now take advantage of free cloud-based email, documents, and other services to get back in b

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Cloud Architecture

Posted by Paul Armstrong on December 21st, 2010

Much has been made of the fact that cloud computing is many things to many people. Unlike technologies and solutions that have gone before it, no standard or vendor can claim to define or own the clou

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Getting Started with Cloud Development

Posted by James Valentine on November 26th, 2010

One great aspect of cloud computing is that many providers offer free entry level access to their platforms. This allows developers to get started with low costs and experiment with the different clou

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Is Microsoft in the cloud?

Posted by Andrew Bennett on October 21st, 2010

Background In early 2010, Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft is betting its future on the cloud. He quantified this by saying that 70% of Microsoft's 40,000 employees are working on cloud relat

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PaaS on Google – more services, more opportunities

Posted by James Valentine on May 28th, 2010

Last week saw a steady stream of big announcements out of Google I/O. Of particular interest are the announcements relating to Platform as a Service: API for Google Latitude: a programmatic way

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VMforce cloud – the Sky’s the “Limit”

Posted by Stephen Chan on April 28th, 2010

With Salesforce.com and VMware's recent announcement of the "world's first Enterprise Java cloud" comes another opportunity to re-assess how we build, deploy and run our Java code in the cloud. Having

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More unconferencing in Wellington – NZ Google Barcamp and CloudCamp

Posted by Desiree Purvis on March 11th, 2010

Whew!  Things are really humming here in Wellington! No sooner did we finish saying Goong Hei Fat Choi to kick off the Year of the Tiger, than the beat of drums on the water signalled frantic padd

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Top 10 for 2010

Posted by Carolyn Berridge on December 23rd, 2009

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future" - Niels Bohr, Danish Physicist A few weeks ago we asked Fronde's top thinkers for their predictions for 2010, both in the IT industry and

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Cloud Computing: the Implications and Opportunities

Posted by James Valentine on November 6th, 2009

On Thursday I presented at KANZ 2009 - the Korea, Australia and New Zealand Broadband summit - on the implications and opportunities of cloud computing. I've uploaded the slide deck onto SlideShare, a

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Tips for Architecting Cloud Solutions

Posted by James Valentine on September 18th, 2009

I recently presented to the local office of a multi-national my thoughts on cloud computing. The presentation title given to me (thanks Paulo!) was "Solution Architecture and Cloud Computing - the goo

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The Cloud Computing Continuum

Posted by James Valentine on August 26th, 2009

"Cloud Computing" - it means different things to different people. To help clarify things, I've come up with a "cloud continuum" that better describes the different offerings that are out there.

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The Virtual Datacenter has arrived!

Posted by Simon Bodecott on April 29th, 2009

While Cloud Computing and SaaS (Software as a Service) grab the headlines, a quiet revolution has been occurring within the local datacenter - virtual infrastructure.  You can now build "private" clo

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What’s all the Hadoop about MapReduce?

Posted by Paul Armstrong on April 20th, 2009

If you wanted another reason to realise that cloud computing is different, then see Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce. "Amazon Elastic MapReduce automatically spins up a Hadoop implementation of the MapR

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Java arrives on Google App Engine

Posted by James Valentine on April 15th, 2009

Google has recently announced that its App Engine can now run Java applications.  This is an exciting announcement for myself and Fronde given I am a Java developer and Google is our partner.  With

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