Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Virtualization in the data center allows hardware to be reused for multiple services and provides a mechanism to extract more…
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…
Google and Amazon as Benchmarkers
One of the most interesting aspects of cloud computing is the opportunity for benchmarking. Instead of paying market research firms…
Grid versus Cloud Computing
From the end user perspective, the short answer to the question "What is the difference between grid computing and cloud…
Dynamic IT
CIO Magazine just surveyed 173 IT business leaders to gauge what the common attitudes are towards cloud computing in the…
Bluehouse is in public beta
IBM announced cloud computing applications at Lotusphere in January of this year. A service called Bluehouse is a web-delivered social…
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…
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…
Google and corporate espionage
The release of Google's Chrome and the original EULA that was bound to it has opened an interesting debate about…
SaaS economics
While researching the offerings of rPath, I came across Billy Marshall's blog . Among many of the tidbits of insight,…
