Cloud Computing: What everyone should know

Cloud computing is an evolutionary step in the delivery of information technology as a service. This transformation will impact every organization. And make no mistake, its time is here.

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Introducing Company Profiles: Highlighting Today's Cloud Computing Leaders

Cloud computing is defined as much by the companies delivering these new services, as it is by technology or anything else. Our company profiles highlight the leaders in this emerging market, with new ones added weekly.

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InMage Builds On Core Strengths to Help Customers Leverage Cloudbursting

By John Panagulias, Editor-in-Chief, submitted by: John Panagulias, Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Cloud computing is opening doors for traditional software companies in ways some people might not expect. Sometimes it’s not about how to transition on-premise software to software as a service (SaaS), which has its own inherent issues for those contemplating the move. Rather, it’s about thinking how a given piece of software might work in a cloud computing environment. In fact, there is some software that has been designed to solve a particular set of needs in a traditional data center environment that can cross-over and work well in a cloud computing environment.

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About SaaS but Were Afraid to Ask

By William Vambenepe, Software Architect, Oracle, submitted by: William Vambenepe, Tuesday, April 20, 2010

What makes one Web applications “Software as a Service” (SaaS) and another a “plain old Web application” (POWA)? Or is there no such distinction?

Wouldn’t it be convenient if we had an answer that has some functional relevance? Here are the different axis on which I (unsuccessfully) tried to project Web applications to sort them between SaaS and POWA:

1) Amount of data

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Get Your SaaS Off My Cloud

By Lori MacVittie, Technical Manager, F5, submitted by: Lori MacVittie, Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Why architecture matters not only to security but to the future of cloud computing

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Generalizing The Cloud vs. SOA Governance Debate

By William Vambenepe, Software Architect, Oracle, submitted by: William Vambenepe, Thursday, March 25, 2010

There have been some interesting discussions recently about the relationship between cloud management and SOA management/governance (run-time and design-time).

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"Hybrid" Clouds Are Half-Baked

By Randy Bias, Founder, Cloudscaling, submitted by: Randy Bias, Wednesday, March 24, 2010

It’s difficult to throw a stone these days without hitting a so-called ‘hybrid cloud.’ The problem is that the term hybrid, used in this context, appears to mean: “Put any two kinds of clouds together.” In fact, that’s how NIST defines it in their cloud definition document [1].

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The Three Reasons Hybrid Clouds Will Dominate

By Lori MacVittie, Technical Manager, F5, submitted by: Lori MacVittie, Tuesday, March 23, 2010

In the short term, hybrid cloud is going to be the cloud computing model of choice.

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Five Things To Do Before Moving To The Cloud

By Ellen Rubin, Co-founder, CloudSwitch, submitted by: Ellen Rubin, Monday, March 22, 2010

Before moving an enterprise application to the cloud, you need to be sure that your expectations are realistic and your objectives match what the cloud can deliver. In this post, I’d like to share what we’ve learned from working with our beta customers, from their initial exploration of cloud possibilities to going live with a specific application they’ve migrated to the cloud. The following steps can help guide the thought process when considering a cloud deployment, and provide a starting point for moving forward.

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Cloud Standards Are Misunderstood

By Randy Bias, founder, Cloudscaling, submitted by: Randy Bias, Thursday, March 11, 2010

Create them now and stifle innovation or create them later when it’s too late? That seems to be the breadth of the discussion on cloud standards today. Fortunately, the situation with cloud computing standards is not actually this muddy. In spite of the passionate arguments, the reality is that we need cloud standards both today and tomorrow. In this posting I’ll explore the cloud standards landscape.

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What If Users Could Specify Their Own SLAs?

By Lori MacVittie, Technical Manger, F5, submitted by: Lori MacVittie, Monday, March 8, 2010

More interesting, what if you had the means to actually try to meet them?

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2010 is the Year of the Federated Cloud

By Ellen Rubin, Co-Founder, CloudSwitch, submitted by: Ellen Rubin, Tuesday, February 23, 2010

In this first post of 2010, I'd like to look at one of the most important cloud issues that enterprises want to tackle: federation in the cloud - across clouds and between the cloud and the data center. Also known as hybrid clouds, the notion of federation has been around since cloud computing began, but as a long-term vision rather than a working solution. This year that gap is going to close.

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