The Goldman Sachs SaaS scorecard
The past couple weeks I have been peering over reams and reams of investment analysis regarding 'cloud computing'. It has…
Comparing the Cost Continued…
The next step was to select our benchmarks and calculate their costs. We extracted two workloads that are common to…
HPC is dead, long live HPC!
With the advent of web scale computing, genetics, and data mining for business intelligence the need for computer performance is…
SaaS business development
There is a great group discussion regarding cloud computing at Google Groups. In one thread titled Brutal reality of SaaS...…
Web Server as the smallest unit of Cloud Computing
To demystify the concept of cloud computing, I would like to assert that a web server is the smallest unit…
Comparing Costs of Different Cloud Computing Providers
The past month we have been trying to quantify the cost of moving some of our workloads into the cloud.…
Windows Server on Amazon EC2
As soon as I finished yesterday's blog entry, I became aware of a posting by Amazon's CTO, Werner Vogels, where…
Cloud Computing Predictions for 2009
GoGrid's Michael Sheehan just published his cloud computing predictions for 2009. 1- Clouds reduce the effect of the recession.The basic…
“Ford is evidently hoping it can win back customers with…
“Ford is evidently hoping it can win back customers with technology that could take some of the stress out of…
Apple’s iLife ‘09 software suite will include a…
Apple’s iLife ‘09 software suite will include a feature called Faces that finds and organizes a gallery of a user’s…
