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		<title>Do you find cloud email confusing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest blog by Andrew Gradwell Further to my very simplistic view of the cloud in my previous post I thought it would be worth elaborating on what the concept of &#8216;the cloud&#8217; would mean to small (non IT) business. I went to the world cloud forum in Kensington Olympia this week and also took part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancedcloud.com/2010/07/26/do-you-find-cloud-email-confusing/</link>
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		<title>Demystify your migration to cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I originally wrote this article for focus.com New cloud technology is here. Microsoft is &#8216;all in,&#8217; Google always has been and what remains of IBM is plowed into cloud services through LotusLive. Independents like Cobweb and Rackspace (who provide 1.7 million business users with cloud email and storage) have been making large amounts out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancedcloud.com/2010/07/23/demystify-your-migration-to-cloud/</link>
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		<title>IBM lessons learned on the cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Learn about the valuable lessons IBM has learned as we have worked with customers over the past nine months on cloud computing initiatives. These insights are designed to help you understand some of the challenges and help you outline the criteria/service levels you should be asking your cloud service provider about.]]></description>
		<link>http://advancedcloud.com/2010/07/04/ibm-lessons-learned-on-the-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Top 250 Players of the Cloud Computing industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[3Leaf Systems &#8211; Describes itself as a provider of &#8220;next-generation server solutions to enable cloud computing.&#8221; Specifically, 3Leaf offers to help companies &#8220;achieve a terabyte of DRAM at dramatically low cost&#8221; based on low-cost commodity servers by providing virtualization of CPU and memory for an entire server farm. 3PAR- Recently announced its &#8220;Cloud-Agile&#8221; program, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancedcloud.com/2010/07/04/top-250-players-of-the-cloud-computing-industry/</link>
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		<title>Types of Cloud Service Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept of cloud services development encompasses several different types of development. Let’s look at the different ways a company can use cloud computing to develop its own business applications. Software as a Service Software as a service, or SaaS, is probably the most common type of cloud service development. With SaaS, a single application [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancedcloud.com/2010/07/04/types-of-cloud-service-development/</link>
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		<title>What is Cloud storage?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What Is Cloud Storage? The servers used for cloud storage are typically hosted by third-party companies who operate large data centers. When you subscribe to a cloud storage service, you lease storage capacity from the cloud storage service. You then have access to the contracted amount of storage space, which you access via the Internet. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancedcloud.com/2010/07/01/what-is-cloud-storage/</link>
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		<title>What is cloud computing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A cloud is a pool of virtualized computer resources that can: Host a variety of different workloads, including batch-style back-end jobs and interactive, user-facing applications Allow workloads to be deployed and scaled out quickly through the rapid provisioning of virtual machines or physical machines Support redundant, self-recovering, highly scalable programming models that allow workloads to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancedcloud.com/2010/06/29/what-is-cloud-computing/</link>
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		<title>The Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why would you choose to develop new applications using the cloud services model? There are several good reasons to do—and a few reasons to be, perhaps,a bit more cautious. Advantages of Cloud Development One of the underlying advantages of cloud development is that of economy of scale. By taking advantage of the infrastructure provided by a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancedcloud.com/2010/06/28/the-pros-and-cons-of-cloud-computing/</link>
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		<title>Annual Cloud Computing World Forum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hear from the leading suppliers, integrators and end-users to give you the complete picture on Cloud Computing and SaaS Show Highlights: 3 day conference and exhibition on Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service Co-located with CloudCamp London &#8211; Free-to-Attend unconference &#8211; click here to register Co-located with the Green Enterprise World Forum &#8211; 1 day conference on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancedcloud.com/2010/06/28/annual-cloud-computing-world-forum/</link>
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		<title>Cloud Computing is a Perfect Fit for Retailers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Retailers today are working to do more with less. And for retailers seeking to get big results with minimal resources, cloud computing is beginning to look like a miracle.

In a recent Microsoft-commissioned survey of about 3,000 business decision-makers across the United States, nearly half of the respondents (48 percent) from the retail industry said that their companies have used cloud computing. One-third (32 percent) said that their companies were ready to move all applications to cloud computing.

So, what’s pulling retailers toward the cloud? It’s the ability of cloud computing to address three key challenges for retailers: focusing on core competencies, meeting unpredictable demands and improving customer service.]]></description>
		<link>http://advancedcloud.com/2010/06/26/cloud-computing-is-a-perfect-fit-for-retailers/</link>
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