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Together with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) became mainstream some time ago. While Salesforce.com was the one who made SaaS so popular, DaaS has long been used only in web mashups. Both data and the software processing them were combined in the same package. Today data are commonly provided on-demand and is available to users regardless of their geographic and organizational separation from a

Certainly the major announcement on Google’s developer conference last week was the launch of their IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) called Google Compute Engine. GCE will represent a major competitor to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in their sky battle. The cloud is a profitable market which will bring a satisfying income to Google, but we hope that the future users of this cloud will be satisfied too, e

In a few years’ time, 2011 will likely be regarded as the year in which cloud computing truly went mainstream. Scalable online storage and computing services continue to evolve and improve rapidly with each passing month. From Microsoft Azure to Google Apps, the programs and platforms we all rely on are getting better and better. Regardless, online security remains a pressing concern for cloud service users and