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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...
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...
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...
Cloud computing can be defined, basically, as an environment where any type of IT resource can be provided as a service. It's a way to increase capacity, or add capabilities on the fly, without...
