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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
