AAmazon is beginning to move from being a pure IaaS play to supporting more abstractions - here are some details w/r/t the Hadoop service from the AWS blog: Today we are rolling out Amazon Elastic MapReduce. Using Elastic MapReduce, you...

Reading this InformationWeek article, I thought over this topic again. The short of it: I'm also not so certain that we really need a Cloud Manifesto. Rather, I think we need a reference metamodel to clarify what is Cloud and...

Reading this InformationWeek article, I thought over this topic again. The short of it: I'm also not so certain that we really need a Cloud Manifesto. Rather, I think we need a reference metamodel to clarify what is Cloud and...

Averaged over a business year, most servers have a CPU and network bandwidth utilisation of 1% or less. Storage capacity on disc that can be accessed only from a specific servers are also under-utilised - e.g. disc capacity attached to...

Averaged over a business year, most servers have a CPU and network bandwidth utilisation of 1% or less. Storage capacity on disc that can be accessed only from a specific servers are also under-utilised - e.g. disc capacity attached to...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/steve-ballmer-maps-microsofts-cloud -y-future/ It is interesting what Ballmer states around the local applications emphasizing that even Microsoft sees the need for Universal Client computing - 1:1 User/App experience regardless of location, connection or hardware. His comments about it not being about...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/steve-ballmer-maps-microsofts-cloud -y-future/ It is interesting what Ballmer states around the local applications emphasizing that even Microsoft sees the need for Universal Client computing - 1:1 User/App experience regardless of location, connection or hardware. His comments about it not being about...

I found Gold-Bernstein's blog entry on SOA & ITIL very insightful and a good read: "Tony Baer presented his research on the connection between SOA and ITIL to the SOA Consortium. The inspiration for Tony's research was a concern over...

I found Gold-Bernstein's blog entry on SOA & ITIL very insightful and a good read: "Tony Baer presented his research on the connection between SOA and ITIL to the SOA Consortium. The inspiration for Tony's research was a concern over...

A good one from Roy Fielding on REST and what it really implies: “Tim Bray’s article on RESTful Casuistry revisits an odd meme in the REST debates that I’ve been meaning to discredit for a while. Some people think that...

A good one from Roy Fielding on REST and what it really implies: “Tim Bray’s article on RESTful Casuistry revisits an odd meme in the REST debates that I’ve been meaning to discredit for a while. Some people think that...

Per IDC, the shift to CC is "inevitable", driven by the promise of reduced TCO in a recession and "the ease and speed of deployment". Anyone involved in CC has realised this by now, but the use of "inevitable" is...

Per IDC, the shift to CC is "inevitable", driven by the promise of reduced TCO in a recession and "the ease and speed of deployment". Anyone involved in CC has realised this by now, but the use of "inevitable" is...

Amazon recently revised their pricing structure, a significant signal for EC2 and S3: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=14420 http://coderslike.us/2009/03/12/you-can-now-by-options-for-amazon-ec2-insta nces/ The short of it is that Amazon won't be able to compete over the long-term (>5 yrs), principally because Microsoft and Google are locking in...

Amazon recently revised their pricing structure, a significant signal for EC2 and S3: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=14420 http://coderslike.us/2009/03/12/you-can-now-by-options-for-amazon-ec2-insta nces/ The short of it is that Amazon won't be able to compete over the long-term (>5 yrs), principally because Microsoft and Google are locking in...