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In case you missed it, here’s some of the most insightful, informative and occasionally funny commentary about the cloud this week (and with Dreamforce happening, there were some great ones):

Cloud Tweets

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In case you missed it, here’s some of the most insightful, informative and occasionally funny commentary about the cloud this week (and with Dreamforce happening, there were some great ones):

Cloud Tweets

@petercoffee (Peter Coffee) tweeted: "If you think an on-premise database is ipso facto more secure, you seriously need to spend ten minutes athttp://tinyurl.com/24nsno3"

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This might sound familiar: you’re seeing a traffic surge, thanks to a promotion or helpful link from elsewhere. You’re a little uncertain your site is going to be able to handle the growing traffic, so you call your hosting company - who informs you that, sure, you can upgrade, but it will take a few days. Meanwhile, you run the risk of getting shutdown just as more potential customers are coming to your site.

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In case you missed it, here’s some of the most insightful, informative and occasionally funny commentary about the cloud this week:

Cloud Tweets

@beaker (Christofer Hoff) tweeted: "There are those of us who believe "true cloud" is that which we use to solve problems. Labels=meh."

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We're delighted to announce that we have closed Series B financing of $3 million. The round was led by Avalon Ventures, a San Diego and Boston fund with several prior cloud computing-related investments. Foundry Group, which led our Series A rounds totaling $2 million, also participated in the round.

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In case you missed it, here’s some of the most insightful, informative and occasionally funny commentary about the cloud this week:

Cloud Tweets

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Our app library grows again. Today we added tools for website analytics and project management (we grabbed these descriptions from the horse's mouth):

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Cloudbzz has written about some of the options for deploying RDBMS/SQL databases in the cloud, including:

• Do it yourself: Deploy a cloud server and install/configure/tune the database
• Service-based DBaaS: Typically, pick a boot image that already has the database installed in a default configuration. Use existing facilities for backups and/or monitoring.

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If you talk to Dave Jilk, he will tell you about how we're "reimagining hosting," moving from a way of thinking about managing apps on shared servers that is very 1999 to one that uses cloud technology to address current needs for flexibility, simplicity and control.

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In case you missed it, here’s some of the most insightful, informative and occasionally funny commentary on the cloud this week:

Cloud Tweets

read more>>