BotchagalupeMarks for September 8th – 10:11

By John | September 9, 2009

These are my links for September 8th from 10:11 to 11:58:

10 Solutions For Your Cloud Hosting Needs – Already you have services such as Twitter using Amazon S3 to serve all of the avatar images on its service, so that just shows it can be used for those little tweaks your users never think of. You can also choose to run your entire SaaS on a grid system if you prefer, scaling up resources only when they are most needed. The best part of most cloud hosting solutions is that they only charge you for what you use, so why should you be paying for resources you never access?
A cloudy future for open-source applications | The Open Road – CNET News – The best open-source projects have little problem with adoption. Their problem, increasingly, centers on monetization of their popularity. From Drupal to MySQL to Audacity, sometimes the best things in life truly are free…which can be a problem. The solution, however, may be cloud computing.
Variety & Darwinism In Solutions Is Innovation, In Standards It’s A War? | Rational Survivability – I find it quite interesting that in the last few months or so, as Cloud has emerged as a full-fledged business opportunity, we’ve seen the rise of many new companies, strategies and technologies. For the most part, hype aside, people praise this as innovation and describe it as a natural evolutionary process.

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