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creoff,
cloud,
appengine
There are several cloud hosting solutions out there, but Google's App Engine is currently CreOFF's favourite by far.
Because it has such great potential for hosting scalable apps and services CreOFF is promoting Google App Engine usage by offering 25% off normal development rates for App Engine projects for a limited time only. (1)
App Engine is a ...
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privacy,
cloud,
business,
legal
At a FeWeb+ seminar about legal and privacy issues my cloud related questions didn't get a clear answer, so I decided to do some research on the latest developments in this area. It seems the cloud environment is still something of a “gray zone” and it’s often unclear which laws apply.
The situation now
Being an EU citizen ...
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cloud,
appengine
Accenture and Reading Room, creators of the Official Royal Wedding site for Prince William and Catherine Middleton, were faced with the challenge to create a website for an event that will draw worldwide attention and have the site scale and handle the huge peak in visitors before, during and after the event.
They chose to build the site on top ...
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python,
cloud,
business,
appengine
The new CreOFF site is online. Or maybe not.
And I have no idea on which server it's running right now.
Sounds confusing?
It's because the site is now running on Google's own cloud infrastructure, which means it should be highly available and scalable, and a copy of the site will be started on a server located ...
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