Cloud Computing Lingo
To understand all the marketing information that bear the label "cloud computing" it is helpful to have a quick glossary…
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…
Federated Clouds
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt defines cloud computing as the convergence of information. The cloud aggregates raw data, organizes the data…
SaaS economics
While researching the offerings of rPath, I came across Billy Marshall's blog . Among many of the tidbits of insight,…
Open Source and free data
Two articles that are just wonderfully expansive...http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070503/012939.shtmlhttp://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/30283I came across these articles researching and thinking about SaaS and PaaS and what…
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…
Red Dog and Windows Cloud: Microsoft is coming!
Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2008 makes it clear that the nature of software development is radically changing. Microsoft, as no…
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…
IT as a Business: or IaaB
Whereas SaaS is predominantly a Business Process Outsourcing trend, Cloud Computing is predominantly an IT operation outsourcing trend. IBM and…
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.…
