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ScienceLogic Wins 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award

ScienceLogic Wins 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award
RESTON, VA, Feb 06, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — The ScienceLogic(TM) IT operations and cloud management platform has been named a 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner by global, integrated media company TMC and Cloud Computing Magazine.
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G-Cloud hopefuls given second chance
By Antony Savvas | Published: 09:51 GMT, 09 February 12 | Computerworld UK The government is offering cloud computing providers a second chance to supply their offerings via its G-Cloud Framework for the public sector. The CloudStore, as part of the …
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Question by tefa: Is there any relation between multicore and Cloud Computing ?
I was asked to talk about the “Effects of multi-core on cloud computing” ? are there any materials that might help me ?

Best answer:

Answer by Nick
These two concepts have little to do with each other.

In general, cloud computing is doing your computing remotely, on computers you don’t own and don’t particularly know the location of, although if you like the concept but you’re a big company with trust issues you could put together your own cloud.

Multicore computers can do compute operations simultaneously. Multicore computers are often used for transaction processing, where you can use several lower-speed (cheaper) cores to handle several simultaneous transactions (symmetric multiprocessing).

Whether a CPU with multiple slower cores is “better” than a faster single-core CPU depends on what you want it to do. If no particular task requires a lot of CPU, then the more cores you have, the better.

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Around The Classical Internet: December 30, 2011

Around The Classical Internet: December 30, 2011
by Anastasia Tsioulcas How exactly does a conductor conduct? New York magazine critic Justin Davidson steps on the podium to find out after an intensive fall of coaching by Alan Gilbert and James Ross who co-lead Juilliard's conducting program. …
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Alibaba hires lobbyist amid Yahoo bid talk
By Maija Palmer, Technology Correspondent Alibaba Group has hired Duberstein Group, the Washington lobbying company, in the latest sign that the Chinese internet group is considering a bid for the whole of Yahoo, if talks to buy back the US rival's …
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Courtney Stodden is the Fox411 Breakout Web Celeb of 2011
By Sasha Bogursky Courtney Stodden took the Internet by storm when she married “Lost” actor Doug Hutchison this spring. Why? Because Stodden was 16 and Hutchison was 51, meaning her parents had to okay the union, as she was not even of legal marrying …
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Related FAQ:
Question by bob dull: How would an internet “kill switch” work? Is it even possible?
Is an internet “kill switch” even possible? Since the internet is essentially a network of computers that communicate with each other, it has no location. I don’t see how you can just shut down the internet. Can someone explain this.
Edit: what about the US which has 100’s if not 1000’s of ISP companies across their nation independent of the government. How exactly would that work?

Best answer:

Answer by Darren Mccabe
The internet as you say is a link multiple computers in multiple countries.

However links to the other countries are normally in one central location (Telecity in the UK for example) if you were to cut this link, you would not kill the internet but you would stop the UK from accessing the rest of the world wide web, and stop anyone outside connecting to the UK.

Also shutting down the world’s DNS servers, would effectively shut down the internet for everyone bar those who know the IP’s of the sites they want to access.

As for a kill switch, I dont think it is possible

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