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Recent Foibles Expose Dark Side of Cloud Computing

http://www.serverwatch.com

Now you and I might have assumed that Apple would do something simple like test the world's most advanced operating system to see if it would destroy all that data *before* releasing it to the public.

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freedom services

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The idea of integrating online services, especially the sort that are (poorly, IMHO) referred to as "cloud computing", is met with resistance by some. Here are my thoughts as they currently stand on what those commitments should be for a service to be considered "Free as in Freedom":

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The Importance of Free Software in the Cloud

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Do you think that free software is important to cloud computing? I personally think it is crucial, and here is why.

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Cloud computing with Linux and Apache Hadoop

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This article shows you how to use Apache Hadoop to build a MapReduce framework to make a Hadoop Cluster and how to create a sample MapReduce application which runs on Hadoop. You will also learn how to set up a time/disk-consuming task on the cloud.

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Jolicloud brings the stupidity of web apps to Linux netbooks.

http://acurrie.posterous.com

If bookmarking a site in your web browser sounds like rocket science to you then you're probably the perfect candidate for Jolicloud, which dumps a bunch of shortcuts for social networking sites and such onto your netbook screen.

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Red Hat wants to standardise clouds

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Red Hat's Deltacloud project is developing a open source standardised API for addressing different cloud architectures in a uniform way. Cloud service users can use the Deltacloud API to access Amazon's EC2 as well as private clouds that are based on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation (RHEL-V); drivers for private VMware ESX clouds and the cloud services offered by Rackspace are to follow.

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Cloud computing on netbooks — Why?

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While in general I agree with both Dion Moult and Christian Weilbach and am in general mistrusting to cloud computing (at least in its currently most popular form), there is something else that bothers me with this hype.

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Ready to Litigate Through the Clouds?

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In the last two years, the term "cloud computing" has infiltrated the mainstream press (although the concept has existed for years). More and more businesses are embracing this way of thinking about information technology. And if the seminar circuit is any evidence, the legal world has awoken to the myriad challenges of cloud computing.

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Open source comes to the cloud

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Open source specialist SugarCRM has developed the Sugar Open Cloud, an on-demand open platform. "Parts of open source and parts of the cloud come together," explained Martin Schneider.

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The Kindness of strangers can defeat Proprietary Cloud Computing. Free Software Solutions

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Fashion is fickle. One day thin clients and clusters are the fashion de jour, the next it's Web 2.0, Virtualisation or distributed computing and Grids. They who live by the sword of fashion will surely perish by it but a new model has been strutting its stuff along the catwalk of web fashion and she goes by the name of Cloud Computing.

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Is cloud computing a threat to open source?

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Will we break a software stranglehold, only to fall back into the arms of hardware providers?

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Is cloud computing a threat to open source?

http://www.computerworlduk.com

Why the demise of proprietary software is creating a vacuum which is about to be filled... and we may not like it.

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Tonido: Cloudless Computing On Your Desktop

http://www.makeuseof.com

While there are plenty of sites that allows you to upload your files and share with others, there might be a handful of you that are paranoid about the privacy of your data or who are concerned that your data will get lost when the third party sites go out of business. Tonido could be the solution to tackle this.

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Podcast: Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth On Ubuntu Cloud Computing

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Barton George caught up with Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth in this podcast to discuss Ubuntu and cloud computing. George is a Sun Microsystems veteran who now works at Lombardi Software and also maintains his own blog, BartonGeorge.net.

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Open Source cloud w/ full web IDE, challenges Windows Azure

http://www.groundos.org

GroundOS.org has announced a new open source cloud web application server. They claim that "cloud computing is little more than a marketing buzzword, used to dress up the cold ugly business model of renting software...

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