blog Listing by Tag: utility-computing
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...
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...
Bernd Harzog recently wrote a blog entry to examine whether “the CMDB [is] irrelevant in a Virtual and Cloud based world“. If I can paraphrase, his conclusion is that there will be...
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...
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...
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 offering: the lack of portability of Apex...
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...
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 part 2...
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