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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...
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...
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...
Events/alerts/notifications have been a central concept in IT management at least since the first SNMP trap was emitted, and probably even long before that. And yet they are curiously absent from all...
[Preface: Previously, I shared some thoughts about how REST was (or could) be applied to IT and Cloud management. Part 1 was a comparison of the RESTful aspects of four well-known IaaS Cloud APIs and...
What benefits does REST provide for configuration management (in traditional data centers and in Clouds)?
Part 1 of the “REST in practice for IT and Cloud management” investigation looked...
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...
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...
There was recently a small brouhaha on twitter regarding whether a 'private' or 'internal' cloud is really a 'cloud.' There was a very high level of chatter including a ton of the clouderati such as...
