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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 makes one Web applications “Software as a Service” (SaaS) and another a “plain old Web application” (POWA)? Or is there no such distinction?
Wouldn’t it be...
[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...
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...
