IT Management and Cloud Blog

cloud computing

« Previous Entries

A really good review of Structure08

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Cloud Computing’s Identity Crisis: Does a Definition Matter?

Another Cloudy Day in the Cloud-o-Sphere

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Stacey Higginbotham over at GigaOM wrote a great though provoking article about the Enterprise and Clouds called “10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud“.  However, some of her arguments, IMO, were a bit cloudy,  As with most thought provoking  blog articles the comments section usally yeild some of the bet disucssions.  Here are […]

Do we need a cloud standard or just one good old IT management standard?

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

It is my belief that what we today call the “cloud” will really just evolve into a complex IT infrastructure of the future, and in the end, will just be referred to as infrastructure. There is no doubt the traditional IT landscape of the last 20 years is going through a substantial transformation on […]

Bridging The Clouds

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Hmmmm… is this true?
Armijo says that several small cloud-computing firms including Elastra and Rightscale are already on board with 3Tera’s standards group.
Bridging The Clouds

The Cloud Pyramid

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

The Cloud Pyramid

Guide To Cloud Computing

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Guide To Cloud Computing

CohesiveFT’s Elastic Servers Available for Deployment to FlexiScale’s On-Demand Cloud

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

From the Press Release…
CHICAGO and LIVINGSTON, Scotland – June 24, 2008 – CohesiveFT, providers of the Elastic Server Platform, an on-demand service for dynamic assembly and deployment of virtual machines, and FlexiScale, a leading provider of true on-demand Cloud computing, today announced a technology partnership to enable deployment of CohesiveFT’s Elastic […]

Taking the Hype out of Hyperic’s new Cloudstatus.

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Ok boys, slow down a bit there. I know we are all in a hurry to capitalize on the new industry buzz around the “Clouds”. However, after taking a brief look at Hyperic’s new CloudStatus, it looks like they are riding on all the “hype” associated with the cloud rather than looking for […]

Is Everyone an aaS?

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

There has been a lot of name calling among cloud vendors and a lot of cloud vendors have been calling other vendors aaSs by defining them into three specific categories. They seem to be making an aaS of themselves in the process. In my opinion trying to fit all cloud vendors […]

IntrIdea Rolls out Scalr, Updates MediaPlug, Builds Community

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Some more tools for Amzon’s EC2.  With a special eye on Scalr an open source infratructure tool for EC2…
IntrIdea Rolls out Scalr, Updates MediaPlug, Builds Community

The Cloud Version of the Tortoise and the Hare

Friday, June 20th, 2008

IBM v Everyone Else…
Although I mostly agree that a lot of the IBM cloud talk is cloudy at best, they are making some obvious strides. The IBM Blue Cloud is not really well defined however, it is a glued together structure of blade servers and IBM Tivoli provisioning and monitoring software.  However, in the end […]

Cloud Cafe Podcast #5

Friday, June 20th, 2008

In this fifth podcast I have a discussion with Stu Charlton the Lead Architect at Elastra. This podcast completes my interviews with the First Triumvirate of cloud vendors, Rightscale, 3Tera, and Elastra. These are vendors who are leading the way as true infrastructure providers on top of the cloud. Stu does a […]

Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Picked this one up over on Coté’s blog…
Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software

Cloud Cafe Podcast #4

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

In this forth podcast I have a discussion with Peter Nickolov President, COO and CTO of 3Tera and Bert Armijo, Senior VP of Sales, Marketing and Product Management at 3Tera. I have been a huge fan of 3Tera for quite a while now. In fact I have even been accused of […]

Great Overview of How SmugMug Uses Amazon EC2/S3

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

The SmugMug Approach to Using Amazon’s S3 and EC2
Other link…
http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/06/03/skynet-lives-aka-ec2-smugmug/

Elastra Founder & CEO To Present at SYS-CON’s “Cloud Computing Summit”

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Elastra Founder & CEO To Present at SYS-CON’s “Cloud Computing Summit”

Rightscale - Defining the Cloud

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Define Cloud Computing

Cloud’s Who Do Rails

Friday, June 6th, 2008

I recently put a short list of Rails based cloud vendors together for a family member and I thought I would share the list on this blog…
Here are some of those Rails specific cloud vendors…
Heroku
MorphExchange
 
Here are some full service cloud vendors that also do rails…
Rightscale
Mosso (not Amazon based)
Open Source
EC2onRails

[…]

Another Cloudy Bookmark

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Cloud Computing And The Nervous Marketer

Google App Engine Pricing

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Google App Engine Announces Pricing Plan, APIs, Open Access

« Previous Entries