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Stories by: Rick Grehan

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    First look: Zend's PHP developer cloud 11 January, 2012 22:06:52

    When you consider the cloud, you typically imagine a realm of deployed, production applications. Zend Developer Cloud (ZDC) adds a twist: ZDC creates a place in the cloud where PHP-based applications can be developed for the cloud. No more developing locally, then deploying into the cloud -- ZDC pushes both into the ether.
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    First look: Amazon RDS gives you a MySQL server in the cloud 08 December, 2009 22:11:00

    Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS) creates a MySQL database server in the cloud. 
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    Cloud control systems tame the ether 03 July, 2009 03:56:00

    Signifying a formless haze of computing power and storage that is somewhere "out there," computerdom's current buzzword is as difficult to get one's arms around as a real cloud. A seemingly limitless pool of processors and memory and disk space, and you just scoop out what you need. Sounds great, doesn't it?
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    Amazon Elastic MapReduce 11 May, 2009 09:00:00

    Have you got a few hundred gigabytes of data that need processing? Perhaps a dump of radio telescope data that could use some combing through by a squad of processors running Fourier transforms? Or maybe you're convinced some statistical analysis will reveal a pattern hidden in several years of stock market information? Unfortunately, you don't happen to have a grid of distributed processors to run your application, much less the time to construct a parallel processing infrastructure.
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