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Almost every definition of cloud, amongst the myriad definitions that exist, include the notion of multi-tenancy, a.k.a. the ability to isolate customer-specific traffic, data, and configuration of...
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...
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...
No, scalability may not be rocket science but it is computer science and not nearly as easy as it might appear
In what might be considered an ironic statement, scalability in cloud computing...
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...
Infrastructure can be a black box only if its knobs and buttons are accessible
I spent hours at Interop last week listening to folks talk about “infrastructure.” It’s a hot topic, to be sure,...
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...
There are many good reasons to go down the virtual infrastructure road. The illusion that it’s cheaper than dedicated hardware solutions is not one of them.
I was reading an interesting predictive...
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...
When co-location meets cloud computing the result is control, consistency, agility, and operational cost savings.
Generally speaking when the term “hybrid” as an adjective to describe a cloud...
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