Comments on: Cloud Computing Applications http://www.weboart.com/cloud-computing-applications/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cloud-computing-applications Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:10:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Saqib Ali http://www.weboart.com/cloud-computing-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Saqib Ali Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:46:47 +0000 http://blog.weboart.com/?p=696#comment-57 While online SaaS enable Office Suites are great for mobile workforce, one needs to carefully plan a exit strategy for their data stored in the Cloud. Vendor lock-in is an issue with any data storage system - in the cloud or hosted in-house. We need to look into and investigate the tools that the vendor provides to extract the data out of the system. From what I seen (and experimented with), Google provides excellent set of APIs to access the data stored in Google's Cloud. And Google is always working on to improve the APIs. Google usually first adds functions to the API, and then introduces them in the UI. Compare this to other software vendors, who usually introduce the new functions in the UI and then at a later time provide API access to those functions - if it all. I currently use both Google Docs and Windows Live Workspace to store my personal / school related stuff. I use both of these because they both have their benefits. Windows Live Workspace provides complete integration with Office 2007, whereas Google Docs provide editing capabilities in a Web browser. Also see: http://www.dataliberation.org/ While online SaaS enable Office Suites are great for mobile workforce, one needs to carefully plan a exit strategy for their data stored in the Cloud.

Vendor lock-in is an issue with any data storage system – in the cloud or hosted in-house. We need to look into and investigate the tools that the vendor provides to extract the data out of the system.

From what I seen (and experimented with), Google provides excellent set of APIs to access the data stored in Google’s Cloud. And Google is always working on to improve the APIs. Google usually first adds functions to the API, and then introduces them in the UI. Compare this to other software vendors, who usually introduce the new functions in the UI and then at a later time provide API access to those functions – if it all.

I currently use both Google Docs and Windows Live Workspace to store my personal / school related stuff. I use both of these because they both have their benefits. Windows Live Workspace provides complete integration with Office 2007, whereas Google Docs provide editing capabilities in a Web browser.

Also see:
http://www.dataliberation.org/

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