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The Wall Street Journal just published an article trying to define cloud computing. Although hardly anyone can be faulted for not understanding the cloud (ahem) of jargon spewing from every marketing department of every IT department scrambling to be relevant without actually innovating, I wanted to help by offering a sort of proof by contradiction.
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Amazon offers 99.95% SLA
Amazon announced today that it was exiting beta and offering a 99.95% SLA within a region. Hopefully this is going to put some cloud naysayers to rest, at least on the reliability front. Amazon is offering accountability in the form of service credits if it violates the SLA. Now this may not [...]
GNU founder Richard Stallman is denouncing clouds as a proprietary trap. I greatly respect this man, but I have problems with his statements on two levels. First, I have previously argued that the most important and game changing factor of cloud computing is not the idea of storing your stuff on the interweb, (which is [...]
Just got back from Vegas for VMworld. By my calculations I’m only $25 down after six poker tournaments, but this is not a post about gambling. Instead I’ll offer a brief analysis of what I saw and experienced.
Clouds are on the horizon
From the cloud-themed t-shirts and signage of the event, to VMware’s vCloud initiative announcement, [...]
I’ve noticed people have been saying things like “I am cloud computing because my mail is now on gmail ZOMG”. Storing your mails on the internets is not cloud computing, it’s just online storage. Uploading pics from your phone directly to the web is not cloud computing. Google docs is not cloud computing. Just storing [...]
The term Cloud Computing is on the rise according to google trends. But what does it all mean? Just like “Web 2.0″ it’s an overloaded phrase with tons of connotations and many attempts at definition. While perusing a cloud blog by James Urquhart, I was inspired to try to define the term myself. So here’s [...]
Eucalyptus is an interesting new project out of UC Santa Barbara which aims to produce an EC2 compatible private cloud in your own data center. What I really love about this idea is that instead of reinventing the wheel, they’ve decided to be API-compatible with EC2. Not only does this make adoption easier for them, [...]
It’s an exciting day for us here at CohesiveFT as Infoworld named us a Top 10 startup for 2008! It’s nice to be recognized for the hard work we continue to put in to make Elastic Server On Demand a highly valuable service. We’ve recently launched a customer forum at GetSatisfaction so please come and [...]
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