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VoIP and Cloud Computing – Two technologies with a joint future

January 27, 2012 By 5 Comments
VoIP Cloud

Internet phone service has slowly taken the market share from the conventional phone services. It has offered many features to its customers that were not offered by landline or cellular networks. Similarly, cloud computing has also taken the world of data centers by storm. Modern VoIP phone service providers are switching to cloud computing for several reasons. Let us have a look at what cloud computing is and how is it playing an important role in future of the VoIP service industry. What … [Read more...]

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Public vs Private Cloud Computing

January 24, 2012 By 1 Comment
Private vs Public Cloud

Now the big decision becomes: public or private cloud?  With a private cloud, the infrastructure is set up exclusively for one organization. It can be managed on the site of the organization. This is sometimes called an enterprise cloud. However, it can also be hosted offsite and managed by a service provider, either as hosted or managed cloud. On the other hand, there is the public cloud. This type of infrastructure has many different tenants (multitenant) and is perhaps most suitable for … [Read more...]

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Cloud Music Services – the best way for music listening?

January 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Is the Cloud Music approach the way forward in the music industry? In recent months we have seen how cloud based music services have started to emerge from both the large cloud providers, including Google, Apple and Amazon as well as a plethora of smaller players. It seems that this type of music storage and delivery is definitely the future of personalized music services. From a mobility point of view the benefits are obvious, users can listen to their own music from their device of … [Read more...]

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Mobile Cloud Computing Will Skyrocket in 2012

January 18, 2012 By 3 Comments
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It’s no surprise that many cloud experts predict that mobile cloud computing will become increasingly important in 2012. Given the numbers of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices shipped every day, more and more users are relying on the cloud as the main driver for satisfying their computing needs, whether it is data storage, applications or infrastructure. A simple Google search for smartphone sales in 2012 quickly reveals booming sales expectations, not least in growing markets … [Read more...]

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