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James Hamilton’s recent MIX’10 presentation on economies of scale for large cloud providers was quite impressive. James “gets it” like few others in the industry. If you...
If you don’t know how scaling services work in a cloud environment you may not like the results
One of the benefits of cloud computing, and in particular IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is that...
From our perspective, it looks like Amazon is winning the cloud race. Amazon and Google pioneered the notion of ‘devops‘, where agile practices are applied to merging the disciplines of...
Stateless applications may be the long term answer to scalability of applications in the cloud, but until then, we need a solution like sticky sessions (persistence)
Amazon recently introduced “...
In this entry I compare four public cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides for resource management protocols.
As someone who was involved...
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...
Why architecture matters not only to security but to the future of cloud computing
It seems the phrase "in the cloud," sadly, has become a marketing-hyped euphemism for "the Internet." I say sadly...
At first glance it seems like Amazon’s recent announcement of a successful SAS70 audit is grounds for celebration[1]. Certainly it has met with fanfare on Twitter and blogs.
Unfortunately, a...
Once upon a time, a network engineer scrawled an amorphous shape upon a whiteboard and wrote "Internet" thereon. The amorphous circle, a 'cloud', soon became the de facto way that we represent "not...
More and more, it's becoming apparent that VMware and Amazon are headed for a serious collision. Amazon is eager to capture more of the enterprise business market, VMware's bread and butter....
