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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...
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,...
Let’s start with the disclosures: by most interpretations I work for a competitor to what Salesforce.com and VMWare are trying to do with VMforce. And all I know about VMforce is what I read in...
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...
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...
Why architecture matters not only to security but to the future of cloud computing
It seems the phrase "in the cloud," sadly, has become a marketing-hyped euphemism for "the Internet." I say sadly...
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...
Or more apropos, it's in the complex and intimate relationship between applications and their infrastructure
What's the difference between a highly virtualized corporate data center and a cloud...
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...
