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Wouldn’t it be good to have a SimCity in the real world?
Written by luke.kershaw 27/04/12Cast 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...
Fronde to Assist Canterbury Businesses
Written by Helen Mills 15/03/11Fronde 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...
Is Microsoft in the cloud?
Written by Andrew Bennett 21/10/10Background 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...
PaaS on Google – more services, more opportunities
Written by James Valentine 28/05/10Last 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 ...
Top 10 for 2010
Written by Carolyn Berridge 23/12/09"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...
The Cloud Computing Continuum
Written by James Valentine 26/08/09"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. ...
Spring in May @ Fronde
Written by Paul Armstrong 25/05/09This month Fronde is pleased to announce the partnership of Fronde and SpringSource. Fronde has a number of partnerships, but that does not mean to say we are free and easy. We choose our partner...
The Virtual Datacenter has arrived!
Written by Simon Bodecott 29/04/09While 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...
What’s all the Hadoop about MapReduce?
Written by Paul Armstrong 20/04/09If 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...
Java arrives on Google App Engine
Written by James Valentine 15/04/09Google 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 ...
Mobile Communications – and the crisis of “now”
Written by James Valentine 26/03/09Clearly we all see a lot of value in mobile technology, and those who have heard me speak will probably have heard me talk about McGuire's law of mobility, namely: "The value of any product or servic...
