Tag Archives: open

Bifurcating Clouds

August 6, 2009 – 08:30

There will soon be two major paths for cloud computing providers: commodity and premium.  If you read my series, Cloud Futures, you’ll know that I broke down cloud service providers into three major categories: service clouds, consumer clouds (previously ‘commodity’)[1], and focused clouds. In retrospect I realize now that there are possibly four, not [...]

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My Top 5 Cloud Posts in H1 2009

July 30, 2009 – 08:30

Frequently new readers are curious about this blog. It helps when I periodically summarize the most popular blog postings. So, without further ado, here’s the top 5 posts in the first half of ‘09. Be sure to also check out my top blog post summary of 2008 if you haven’t already.

The Open [...]

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Up, Out, Centralized, and Decentralized

July 28, 2009 – 08:30

It can be confusing to understand how to scale computing systems, but it’s not rocket science.  There are really only two main axes of scale: out and up.  Closely related to the axis of scale is the general type of architecture: centralized or decentralized.  In this article I’m going to briefly revisit scaling and then [...]

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Infrastructure as Code Presentations

June 26, 2009 – 11:09

If you’re into cloud and Internet/web operations this past few weeks saw several very important conferences, including Open Source Bridge, Velocity Conference, and Structure ‘09.  I’m not going to review either of these since I wasn’t at Structure and only spent a day at Velocity, but suffice it to say that some very smart people [...]

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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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