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Among all the announcements at Oracle Open World so far, here is a summary of those I was the most impatient to blog about.
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
This was the largest part of Larry’s...
There’s a long running debate about the true role of Virtual Machines (VMs) in cloud computing. In talking with CTOs at the large vendors as well as the “Clouderati” over the...
Oracle recently published a Cloud management API on OTN and also submitted a subset of the API to the new DMTF Cloud Management working group. The OTN specification, titled “Oracle Cloud...
This week Rackspace Cloud, in conjunction with the NASA Nebula project, open sourced some of their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud software. This initiative, dubbed ‘OpenStack#8217...
I’ve heard from a somewhat reliable source that Google is working on their Amazon EC2 competitor. Yes, some kind of on-demand virtual servers. I would have been the last person to guess that...
On Saturday, GigaOm published a blog post I wrote entitled Who Will Build the LAMP Cloud? Please read the full post, but I basically ask in it the title question and speculate on...
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...
If you don’t know how scaling services work in a cloud environment you may not like the results. One of the benefits of cloud computing, and in particular IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is that...
There is always a temptation, when facing a hard design decision in the process of creating an interface or a protocol, to produce two (or more) versions. It’s sometimes a good idea, as a way...
From our perspective, it looks like Amazon is winning the cloud race. Amazon and Google pioneered the notion of ‘devops‘, where agile practices are applied to merging the disciplines of...
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