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Prasant Lokinendi02/22/12
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Unique Cloud Orchestration and Interoperability Spec in the Works

OASIS has released information about a proposed new cloud portability standards initiative: TOSCA. Take a look to see if this a standard that you would use.

Anders Karlsson02/22/12
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Amazon RDS for MySQL - Is it any good?

So far, Anders Karlsson is happy with Amazon's MySQL RDS, but there are a couple of things you should know before you use the services. This article will give you a quick look at the most important things to remember, and if you've considered using RDS, you'll want to read this...

Ben Kepes02/22/12
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Amazon Goes PaaS: Game On! Let’s See How the Competition Respond

Have no doubt – this is PaaS in all but name. From the announcement: "Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. Amazon SWF is an orchestration service for building scalable distributed applications. "

Aaron Nichols02/22/12
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Getting out of the Developers' Way – Monitoring

The traditional model is to have Ops ask Dev what metrics they need monitored & to set those up. But this is a bad practice because this often means that monitoring can’t start until the metrics are available in the code, which can take days or weeks.

Cody Powell02/22/12
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One Lesson I Learned from Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud

This author claims that it "almost feels like science fiction to be able to spin up a powerful VM in seconds, use it for an hour, and terminate it, spending just pennies in the process."

Chris Keene02/21/12
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CIOs and CTOs Increasingly Wanting to Create Cloud-Ready Applications

Making apps ready for the cloud requires that development platforms are built with one purpose in mind: supporting on-site and on-demand computing.

Eric Genesky02/21/12
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Six Reasons to Avoid Amazon DynamoDB if You're a Ruby Developer

One user has claimed that Amazon's NoSQL service, DynamoDB, is filled with holes for the ruby client to fall into. He reveals six problems, and I suggest that this may be an opportunity for a similar service out there to provide a better user experience for ruby devs.

Geva Perry02/21/12
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Surprise! Your Enterprise is Already Using the Public Cloud

Perry suggests that companies are adopting cloud computing services from the bottom up rather than the top down. He supports this by recognizing that, in most companies using cloud computing services, the decision is made by developers rather than the higher-ups.

Ben Kepes02/21/12
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Nimbula is One Step Closer to "Amazon-Like" Functionality with Version 2 of Director

The new version of the Direction extends usage to include the following: Extensibility, VMWare Support, Application Management, DNS/VPN Services, and Enterprise Readiness. This blogger offers his opinion on each.

Karthikeyan Anb...02/21/12
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A ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview Application How-to Guide for Windows Azure Users

Now that Windows Azure has an ASP.NET MVC 4 developer preview application, this writer was able to create a step-by-step tutorial for users new to the service. Includes useful screenshots.

Micheal Shallop02/20/12
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Some Suggestions for Securely Storing Working Source Code on the Cloud

Some of the services this user tried include ZumoDrive, 1Password, and TrueCrypt, after finding that CloudApp and DropBox didn't offer quite enough space or accessibility. The writer describes the costs and benefits of each.

Scott Morrison 02/20/12
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How the Cloud is Abstracting Complex Systems Details, with Detrimental Effects

This writer makes the interesting point that the cloud is the "latest in a long line of valuable abstractions that extend the computing stack." He focuses on how, in the process, the cloud further divides abstractions from the concrete details and processes that are necessary to any server by claiming the insignificance of the geographical location of a server.

JP Morgenthal02/20/12
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Living La Vida Cloud!

You've seen the Microsoft "To the Cloud" commercials. Morgenthal discusses the popular cloud and how everyday people are starting to indirectly access it. Mostly, this comes through applications deployed on the cloud.

Geva Perry02/20/12
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Criteria to Consider When Evaluating Cloud Computing Services

This post suggests and expounds upon six areas to consider: performance, technology stack, SLAs/Reliability, APIs, Security/Compliance, and Cost. He includes a link to his article published in TechTarget.

Romiko Derbynew02/20/12
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Use TeamCity and PowerShell to Automate Windows Azure Deployments

In this post, the author covers an overview of multiple build projects on TeamCity, configure a project to deploy on Azure Cloud, automate deployments to Azure Cloud, leverage msbuild target templates for automated generation of azure package files, and provide alternate solutions for generating package files.