Category Archives: Cloud Computing

Cloud Foundry Evolves

Posted on January 18, 2012 by

Cloud Foundry, the open-source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution from VMware, continues to gain community support and evolve toward a more diverse, enterprise-ready platform. Last night at the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group meet up in Palo Alto, VMware engineers and representatives … Continue reading →

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A Cloud Curriculum

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

Erik Bansleben, Program Development Director at the University of Washington, invited me and several other bloggers to participate in a discussion last Friday on UW’s new certificate program in cloud computing. Aimed at students with programming experience and a basic … Continue reading →

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Big Data and Hadoop: A Cloud Use Case

Posted on July 1, 2011 by

Tuesday night I drove to Santa Clara for the Big Data Camp, learned more about Hadoop, and even ran into a few Dell colleagues. Thanks to Dave Nielson for organizing the camp and to Ken Krugler for his great overview … Continue reading →

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Pathways to an Open Source Cloud

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

Last night at the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group hosted by Box.net, David Nalley of CloudStack told an overflow crowd that open source ideally fits the requirements of cloud computing, allowing users to solve their own problems and avoid cloud … Continue reading →

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Connecting Clouds: L2 or L3?

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

We speak of the cloud, but we have no cloud. We have clouds: private clouds, a cloud at Amazon, a cloud at Rackspace; more and more clouds, distinct and separate. Enterprises looking to cloud computing may well decide on an … Continue reading →

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Review of Virtual Ops Private Cloud

Posted on May 31, 2011 by

A small book of deep insight, Virtual Ops Private Cloud tackles the why and how of moving enterprise IT from virtualization to private cloud. Private cloud—better tailored, less costly, more secure than public cloud—means automation, dynamic workload management, and a … Continue reading →

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Architects Wanted in the Cloud: Thoughts on the SEI SATURN Conference Cloud and SOA Track

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

(Note: This post was first published by the Software Engineering Institute at http://saturnnetwork.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/guest-post-architects-wanted-in-the-cloud-thoughts-on-the-sei-saturn-conference-cloud-and-soa-track.) Will cloud computing make software architects obsolete? If cloud vendors take responsibility for quality attributes through SLAs, what work is left for architects? What decisions remain after the … Continue reading →

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IaaS and PaaS: From Software to Service and Back

Posted on May 17, 2011 by

We’ve come to think of Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service as, well, services. Pay for IaaS, and a vendor makes servers available in the cloud. Think Amazon’s AWS. Pay for PaaS, and a vendor makes available a grid of application servers. Think … Continue reading →

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Cloud Foundry: Making the Cloud Extensible

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

At the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing meet-up this past weekend, Ezra Zygmuntowicz, a co-creator of Cloud Foundry at VMware, stood before a white board and walked the group through the Cloud Foundry architecture. And while it’s fresh in my mind, … Continue reading →

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Old Wine, New Bottle: Transactions and Garbage Collection in the Cloud

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

Last night, Gil Tene, CTO of Azul Systems, and Tom Henn, CEO of CloudTran, spoke at the SDForum’s Cloud Computing and Virtualization SIG, addressing old themes in computer science that take on new meaning in the cloud. Tene pointed out … Continue reading →

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