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Fronde breathes in Google Atmosphere

Written by damien.kelly 27/04/12

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?

Written by luke.kershaw 27/04/12

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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Fronde to Assist Canterbury Businesses

Written by Helen Mills 15/03/11

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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Is Microsoft in the cloud?

Written by Andrew Bennett 21/10/10

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

Written by James Valentine 28/05/10

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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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...

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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. ...

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Spring in May @ Fronde

Written by Paul Armstrong 25/05/09

This 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...

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The Virtual Datacenter has arrived!

Written by Simon Bodecott 29/04/09

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?

Written by Paul Armstrong 20/04/09

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

Written by James Valentine 15/04/09

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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Mobile Communications – and the crisis of “now”

Written by James Valentine 26/03/09

Clearly 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...

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