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The “Open” Cloud is Coming

April 28, 2009 – 14:24

The rhetoric from open source pundits about the ‘closed’ cloud has already started.  From Richard Stallman to others there has been nay-saying related to the cloud being ultimately closed and proprietary.  This is a fundamentally misguided understanding.
Where ever you stand on ‘free markets’, there is no doubt that market forces play a major role in [...]

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Deep Dive on VMware vCloud by Orran Krieger

April 26, 2009 – 13:51

Discovered, by happenstance, an interesting presentation by VMware’s Orran Krieger on vCloud.  Really great information in here about VMware’s perspective on cloud computing, their cloud trajectory, and the vCloud architecture.  This looks like a recent undiscovered gem for folks trying to understand VMware and their cloud computing plans.  It was only recently given by Orran [...]

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Cloud Application Architectures

April 24, 2009 – 22:03

George Reese’s new book, Cloud Application Architectures, is finally out.  I’m probably biased, but I think it’s pretty good as a handbook for building web applications on Amazon’s EC2. I contributed an appendix that describes GoGrid and it’s differences to EC2.  There is also a good interview on CloudAve with George Reese on the book.
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Infrastructure in the Cloud Era

April 24, 2009 – 11:28

Great deck from Ezra Zygmuntowicz of EngineYard and Adam Jacob of OpsCode giving a high level overview of how to manage infrastructure for clouds.  The mantra of “program your infrastructure” continues to gain momentum.  There isn’t going to be a place for systems admins and operators who cannot write code in the future.  Unless you [...]

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Virtual, Cloud, Datacenters?

April 13, 2009 – 10:54

As a new market or technology emerges there is always a search for new, hopefully better, nomenclature to explain and differentiate.  Cloud computing infrastructure is as much a victim of this search as anyone else.  Some consider “cloud computing” to encompass infrastructure only.  Others use “Infrastructure-as-a-service” (IaaS) or even “Hardware-as-a-Service” (HaaS) to define that part [...]

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