Cloud computing is gradually becoming the most favorite child of CIOs and IT pros and as it is graduating from testing level to commercial uses many prefer to have a virtualized environment in the organizations. In a survey conducted by TechTarget during the 3rd quarter of the last year on increasing cloud interest, 61% of the respondents have agreed that they use cloud computing of some forms or the other in their organizations. The demand for all three IaaS, SaaS and PaaS cloud services are on a rise. The adoption rate is higher for small enterprises because of moderate availability…

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For a brief period of time I had an account with Amazon S3, which I mainly used as a test for a project I was working on. The biggest problem I faced then and which is still prevalent is the ability to easily use the interface to move files to and fro your computer. DragonDisk makes file management simple if you’re using Amazon S3® or Google Cloud Storage®, or any other S3 API compatible service. DragonDisk allows you to backup, share and organize your data thanks to an intuitive interface similar to Windows Explorer or Finder.  Key features: Full fledged file…

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There are several free and paid cleaning tools available for your Windows PC. CCleaner is probably the most famous of them all. SlimCleaner is the world’s first software that lets you clean and optimize Windows systems using a crowd-sourced approach. SlimCleaner uses aggregated-cloud feedback to recommend optimal settings for programs, start-ups and services. SlimCleaner uses what’s called “authoritative ranking” to ensure that the ratings for your programs are accurate and that they reflect what people really think. It works by weighing the ratings of each contributor against their previous levels of accuracy and against the ratings of high-ranking users. Features…

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The cloud is the big buzzword for 2012. It refers, of course, to an effective data storage system that can be accessed from remote locations. Instead of hefting the burden of running programs onto a limited number of local servers, functions are divided among an entire cloud network. Though many people (maybe even most people) have already been using the cloud through popular email services like Gmail, businesses have been slower to adopt the cloud. The means of ensuring effective cloud computing will vary greatly from one project to the next. Each cloud application is best approached separately, allowing for…

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Its pretty clear that we all need to have use a powerful anti-virus software to protect our computer from possible threats. It’s important that we make sure to check if its making all the updates with the newest virus definitions and do a full system scan to stay protected all the time. This may use a lot of system resource while in use and eventually slows down your Pc. Panda Cloud Antivirus is a free lightweight antvirus solution that makes sure to process and scan everything on their servers so that it doesn’t use your computer resources while it runs….

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