Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Zoho releases SQL-based data-access service | InfoWorld | News | 2008-12-02 | By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service

SQL still rules data-land; see the full article for more details

Initially, Zoho Reports, a BI and reporting service, will support CloudSQL. Other products, such as Zoho CRM, will support it down the road.

Zoho's announcement represents an attempt to win over IT specialists who haven't been quite ready to embrace the cloud-computing model, one observer suggested Tuesday.

"CloudSQL simply represents an incremental move that will enable Zoho to grow, extending a comfort blanket to nervous DBAs seeking reasons to resist relinquishing control over their data," wrote Paul Miller, a blogger who tracks trends in cloud computing and the semantic Web.

For now, CloudSQL is available at no cost. Zoho, which is a division of the Pleasanton, Calif., company AdventNet, will monitor usage and decide whether it needs to begin charging for it, according to a representative

Zoho releases SQL-based data-access service | InfoWorld | News | 2008-12-02 | By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service

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