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Cloud Futures Pt. 2: Commodity Clouds

June 5, 2009 – 09:30

Ever wonder where the other big guys are in the cloud computing space?  If Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are general purpose service clouds set to dominate as ecosystem plays, then what about those big companies that can’t deliver an ecosystem, but have the size to play ball?  (See Pt. 1: Service Clouds).  The answer is [...]

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Private Clouds Matter

June 4, 2009 – 09:00

Some folks think that there is no such thing as a ‘private’ cloud.  By definition all clouds are public.  Unfortunately, some times the confusion is around whether a cloud exists internally or externally rather than if it’s public or private.  Yet, even in the case where this confusion doesn’t exist, the notion of a private [...]

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GoGrid Scalability Whitepaper

May 15, 2009 – 22:33

Quick repost of the Scalability Whitepaper I wrote for GoGrid to make sure that my readers can find it easily.  It can sometimes be difficult to find on the GoGrid website, but I’m working on that as well.  ;)
GoGrid — Scaling Your Internet Business
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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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