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Most APIs are like hospital gowns. They seem to provide good coverage, until you turn around.
I am talking about the dreadful state of fault reporting in remote APIs, from Twitter to Cloud interfaces...
Three weeks ago, VMware and Salesforce.com launched VMforce, a Salesforce-hosted platform as a service (PaaS) solution based on VMware runtime technology and force.com application services. In my...
There’s a growing focus on PaaS (Platform as a Service), particularly as Microsoft has been rolling out Azure and VMware continues to push forward with its SpringSource acquisition. Amazon, though...
The VMforce announcement is a great step for SalesForce.com, in large part because it lets them address a recurring concern about the Force.com PaaS [platform as a service] offering: the lack of...
Let’s start with the disclosures: by most interpretations I work for a competitor to what Salesforce.com and VMWare are trying to do with VMforce. And all I know about VMforce is what I read in...
The battle of the cloud frameworks has started, and it will look a lot like the battle of the application servers which played out over the last decade and a half. Cloud frameworks (which manage IT...
We often talk about CloudSwitch moving legacy applications to the cloud in a simple and secure way; this raises the question of what exactly we mean by “legacy.” To be more specific...
There is the cloud that provides value by requiring as few changes as possible. And there is the cloud that provides value by raising the abstraction and operation level. The backward-compatible...
There have been some interesting discussions recently about the relationship between cloud management and SOA management/governance (run-time and design-time). My only regret is that they are a bit...
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...
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