MacBook Air Contest: How Do You Move Applications to the Cloud?
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The road to cloud computing continues. Last month, we asked what are the first steps in moving to the cloud.
This month we are asking:
How do you move applications to the cloud?
Leave a comment on this post with your thoughts and we'll review it for judging.
My co-judge this month is Sam Ramji, vice president of strategy at Apigee. Sam is a leader in the use of APIs. He has a clear vision for how applications integrate and exist in a cloud environment.
A big thanks to my co-judge George Reese. George is the founder of enStratus, a cloud infrastructure technology solutions company with customers that include Korea Telecom.
Criteria
Our criteria for choosing the winners is as follows:
- Depth of understanding
- Factual examples to back up assertions
- How the conversation develops
- Accuracy
- Strength of argument
- Concise writing
- Originality
The contest will run for the next 30 days. The winners will be announced on the first of April. A Disqus account is required to participate. Please take a few moments to read the full list of rules before joining in the conversation.
We look forward to the conversation!
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