Falla épica en una Chromebook

I Gave Up My Mac For A Google Chromebook Pixel And Loved It ... Until It Became A Brick At Starbucks JULIE BORT - Business Insider For the past two weeks, I've been working 100% in the cloud, giving up my MacBook Pro to use a Google Pixel Chromebook. I loved it. Until it had an epic fail. For the first 13 days, I was so happy that I was ready to recommend it instead of a Mac (with some caveats). But last weekend, I took it Starbucks and experienced such a disaster that I changed my mind. Before I get into the Starbucks fail, I want to talk about the 13 days where things went well. With the Chromebook operating system, all work is done via cloud apps over the Web. Instead of using applications installed on your PC, you...

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Academia de programadores para la nube de Google

Codecademy for the cloud: Google’s new Cloud Playground is pure geniusVenture Beat  The biggest challenges with adopting a new platform are unfamiliarity, uncertainty, and switching costs. Which is exactly why Google’s new Cloud Playground is a perfect way to get serious about tempting developers to switch from Amazon or Microsoft’s clouds. Or to start developing in the cloud for the first time. In literally two clicks, you can start a development project in the cloud, see its code, and start playing with an app on Google’s App Engine, Compute Engine, or Datastore. That’s exactly what I just did: John Koetsier A quick “hello world” guestbook app in Google Cloud Playground Sometimes you just want to dip your toes in, Google...

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Soluciones para hacer competitiva una empresa

¿Cuáles son las soluciones clave para hacer más competitiva a la empresa? Management Journal ¡Logra un desempeño perfecto! Las compañías generan más de 1.000 millones de gigabytes (GB) de datos en todo el mundo por año. Este gran volumen de información genera dificultades en las organizaciones e impulsa a los ejecutivos a buscar nuevas soluciones para almacenar, analizar y acceder a los mismos. Por esta razón, "cloud computing", "Big Data" y "mobile" son los servicios más solicitados, dado que ayudan a las empresas a potenciar su competitividad y resolver sus necesidades de manera eficiente. "Cloud computing" brinda a las compañías la posibilidad de almacenar y procesar todo en la nube, además de virtualizar los escritorios,...

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Blue Box junta inversores

Blue Box Raises $3.5 Million For Cloud And Hosting Service With An OpenStack Flavor ALEX WILLIAMS TECHCRUNCH s Blue Box has raised $3.5 million for its OpenStack-infused cloud and hosting service designed for companies that have major traffic volumes and big apps and rely on a high level of uptime. This is a first round for Blue Box, which started in Seattle nine years ago. Voyager Capital led the investment. The company has 600 clients that include MTV, VH1 and Pivotal Tracker. Blue Box will use OpenStack as a foundation to unify its automation and orchestration technology. It is a white glove service for companies that wish to outsource operations requiring specific expertise in managing the complexities...

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Casos de estudio: Amazon y la nube

Desde las nubes Amazon está transformando a la informática Emprendimientos como Instagram, que fue adquirida por Facebook en 1200 millones de dólares, comenzaron en la plataforma de computación en la nube de la compañía liderada por Jeff Bezos Por Quentin Hardy  | The New York Times Jeff Bezos, cofundador y CEO de Amazon, durante la presentación de la Kindle Fire y de diversos servicios de almacenamiento en la nube, en 2011. Foto: EFE  Jeff Bezos, cofundador y CEO de Amazon, durante la presentación de la Kindle Fire y de diversos servicios de almacenamiento en la nube, en 2011. Foto: EFE  SEATTLE.- Dentro de pocos años, la creativa destrucción de Amazon, tanto de la edición tradicional...

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