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Enterprise Applications and Cloud Computing

May 30th, 2011

The cloud comouting has been a very hot topic in the last two years, there were also a lot of cloud comouting applications have been released for enterprises. When more and more big enterprises like Google and Microsoft lanuched their cloud computer services, for those CTOS or Managers from other small IT enterprises or Non-IT enterprises, do we really need the cloud computer service and how to choose the suitable cloud computer service?

Enterprise,Cloud Computing

I had been working for the National Geology Association for 12 months as an software engineer before I joined FortesLED(A LED Module Manufacturer), during that time, I was in charge of some website projects which need a lot of dedicated servers, we have to leave a lot of our budget to bu servers, operation system and the platform. After consulting our it outsourcing company, they give us a comparison between normal dedicated servers and cloud computer servers:

Year 1st 2nd 3rd
Dedicated Servers $5500(Hardware & Software included) $1000 $1000
Cloud Computer $750 $750 $750

For the normal dedicated servers, it took us a lot of money on hardware and software, besides, we have to undertake the cost of the upgrading for the hardware every 3 or 5 years, employ an enterprise network management team to keep the servers and network running health and safe, did the small companies really has so much budget and engineers?

In fact, after I join FortesLED, a non-IT enterprise, we handled all of our website, data center, IT safety business to cloud computering services, my IT apartment only run the website and find the best outsourcing developers. At lease for enterprises like mine, they will benefit more from cloud computing than before.

But the cloud computing is not suitable for all the enterprises, for example, the enterprises which required high security, they can’t deploy any of their business on the cloud couputing servers at this moment because no none can guarantee that there is no security flaw.

So, if you are don’t know wheather you can use the cloud couputing services, find a technology consulting company and they will help you will your IT business. After that you can enjoy the feelings on the cloud.

Twitter is the fastest news source

June 27th, 2010

Twitter announced in Friday that the World Cup has promote the release number of their users, which has reached to 3283 per second, a new record. Last week, after the Lakers beat the Celtics and won the NBA championship, Twitter announced the number was 3085 per secondm but since the World Cup opening ceremony, the number has continued increase. Usually, the twiters release 750 messages per second. These statistics mean that when teams are fighting for the championship, many people are making online cast at Twitter, for me and most people, Twitter has been the fastest way for news. Although many users also share the topics or photos about the World Cup in Facebook, Twitter is no doubt the best place to know what was happening around the world when you are doing you business.

There is also a big problem during the World Cup, too many people are reading or writing topics about the World Cup, when my roommates were watching the match online, I cound not visit the Twitter because the slowly Internet, compare internet service providers in my area, mabey I should change to a faster Inernet, I don’t want to miss any interesting topics at Twitter.

As Twitter’s Chief Operating Officer Dick Costello said recently, Twitter’s users reached 190 million per month. Many fans of Twitter are post different kinds of topics about Twitter and these will attract more and more new users.

In fact, if you have enough energy or you want to build miniblogs for your own or your conpany, you can try these four Open Source Micro-blog Programs, they are very familiar with Twitter.

Some countries can’t visit Twitter because the political reasons, you can read my former post How to visit Twitter when blocked by the local goverment, no one can stop us from the news and truth.

After I finished these article, 37 friends of my twitter have wrote 52 new topics about the match between Germany and Endland, maybe you get all these news from ESPN or tomorrow’s newspagers, but I’m enjoying the interesting and real-time news whenever, this is the Twitter.

8 Photos and Icons Search Engines

March 27th, 2010

We must face the fact that in our design process, we usually need more than one picture or icon. This is not means that we can’t make it but we can save the time and focus on their own design. A lot of good designers would like to share their works to everyone for free. In fact, we can find a lot of people pictures and icons through the Internet . So the only we need to know is – how to find them? Here are 8 pictures and icons search engines, make the best use of them and you will benefit from them.

1. EveryStockPhoto

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines: EveryStockPhoto.com

2. Xcavator

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines: Xcavator.net

3. Ginipic

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines: ginipic.com

4. GazoPa

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines: gazopa.com

5. FreeFoto.com

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines: FreeFoto.com

6. TurboPhoto – Free Stock Images

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines: TurboPhoto – Free Stock Images

7. Feelimage

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines: Feelimage

8. Incogna

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines

Free Photos and Icons Search Engines: Incogna

2009 Christmas Day

December 24th, 2009

At present, the celebration of the 2009 Christmas Day is holding all over the world. Few days later, 2009 will become history and we are comming near to 2012, haha, this is only a joke, but, who knows?

I am an undergraduate student from an geoscience university, but I learn software engineer here and concentrate on the Internet, I believe that the Internet is not only a tool for communicating but also a way to my dream. In the following 2010, I will write mainly about about my opinion of the Internet, web design and WordPress.

Merry Christmas, 2010.

Top ten IT news of 2009

December 19th, 2009

The Christmas Day of 2009 is coming soon, before we starting our Holidays, look back upon the past year, to see what events can made you crazy or unforgettable, what can made you sad or upset. Well, I summarize the top 10 events of the Internet in 2009, which is in my own opinion, share your opinion with me or just digg it.

1. Google Released Chrome Operating System

Google chrome operating system can only run at the Internet, the point is that the free Google chrome operating system may be a challenger of Windows in the future, because Google have tabke the most of search engine market. But it will be long before every people can use Google chrome operating system.

Read more about  Google chrome operating system at Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_OS.

2. MicroSoft Bing Search instead of Live Search

It seemed that Bing had done a good in north America, but in other area of the world, Bing lose to Google, Yahoo or the native search engine. As far as I am concerned, I use Google as the first choice and Yahoo or Ask as the second choice.

3. Michael Jackson became the hottest word in Google

The genius singer left this world with nothing, but he leave to people memories and arguments. Thanks god, we have the search engine, we can still find out the great memories from the Internet.

4. Barack Obama own the Internet of 2009

2009 was Obama’s year, companies who didd’t take the most use of the Internet or people who was learning SEO or SEM should analysis this case, the Internet or search engine could influence the American presidential election, much less a company or a brand.

5. Windows 7

Windows 7 is the OS I have ever used before, much more better than Vista, much more convenient than Windows XP. We can make a unique OS for ourselves easy and quickly. Windows 7 is a milepost at the OS history.

6. Oracle’s acquisition of Sun

I was very worried about MySQL when I heared this news at April, although the merger of Oracle and Sun may reshape high-tech industries, the worried about monopoly and MySQL is necessary, there was no need to use Oracle for the small websites such as blog, and this can also made the development of the open source software became haeder.

7. Twitter connect the world or become a political tool

In June, the Twitter users in Iran begun to release information to the world by Twitter when the foreign reporters was threw out. In the many other news events, Twitter is also used to announce what have seen or heard by the witnesses. In my opinions, Twitter should be a too only for communicating or read news and distance from politics.

8. Jobs once again return to Apple

After overcoming health problems, Steve Jobs once again return to Apple dispeled the concerns of the Apple fans.

9. Microsoft and Yahoo made a deal: Yahoo’s search business will disappear?

Yahoo was once the biggest search engine, but now it was defeated by Google and some other search engines. After a whole year of negotiations, they finally made a deal that Microsoft’s new search operator Bing will run at Yahoo’s search site and Yahoo will sell search advertisment of the two companies, so where will Yahoo Search go to be?

10. The last one: What are we expect in 2010?

New technology promote the development Internet and the Internet promote the economic development, they both come true in 2009, how about 2010?