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Migrating Applications By Cutting Cloud Clutter Talk to any CIO of a good company about cloud computing and related terminology, and you will notice that words such as automation, security, management come up as if they were regulars like Coke and Pepsi. There has been a lot of clutter around the very basic definition of cloud computing. Not only do people have a lot of preconceived notions about the technology, but also fixed ideas about its deployment. However, what is rare is a discussion about the best practices to migrate your current applications from the present platform to the cloud

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LinkShare Develops Marketing Application with Microsoft Cloud LinkShare is using Microsoft’s Cloud Services Platform to develop the next generation of online performance marketing application LinkShare Lightning. This online performance marketing firm decided to use Windows Azure after evaluating the cloud computing offerings from Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine. Microsoft claims its massively scalable and cost-effective cloud platform can enable customers to easily build, host and dynamically scale applications and services through the Microsoft data centers all across the world. LinkShare expects annual savings of up to several million dollars in hardware, software and development costs by using Windows

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