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Getting Started with Node.js on The Cloud

In my new job at salesforce.com I’m incredibly exited about getting into Heroku, a Platform as a Service provider / Cloud Application Platform. In a...

4 replies - 6459 views - 06/22/11 by James Ward in News

Vendors Will Have To Climb Higher To Reach Clouds

Hard on the heels of the VMWare/SpringSource acquisition, VMWare entered into a grand alliance with Cisco and EMC (although technically, VMWare...

0 replies - 1101 views - 06/21/11 by Chris Keene in News

Native Cloud Databases – Why Should You Care?

Databases are a critical resource in any company’s IT, and are considered one of the most precious assets of the company. In many ways, the database...

0 replies - 1588 views - 06/21/11 by Avi Kapuya in News

DRP, Cloud and Some Tips

One of the most popular use cases for cloud computing is DRP. Why DRP? DRP is one of the costly operations in systems life cycle. Not only you need...

0 replies - 1910 views - 06/20/11 by Moshe Kaplan in News

Advanced scenarios with Windows Azure Queues

For DeveloperFusion, I wrote an article on Windows Azure queues. Interested in working with queues and want to use some advanced techniques? Head...

0 replies - 1196 views - 06/18/11 by Maarten Balliauw in News

Key-Value Data Store in iCloud

Apple’s new iCloud platform includes a new key-value data store, along side its document storage. An application can use the key-value data store to put...

0 replies - 2509 views - 06/17/11 by Kin Lane in News

Technical Cloud Resources

As I discussed in my introductory post, this blog is primarily focused on the people-side decision-making of Cloud Computing. But considering that Cloud...

0 replies - 1429 views - 06/17/11 by Brian Gracely in News

Taking Care of a Cloud Environment

It looks like I’m only doing sessions lately :-) Here’s another slide deck for a presentation I did on the Architect Forum last week in Belgium. ...

0 replies - 974 views - 06/16/11 by Maarten Balliauw in News

Hybrid Clouds: Private vs. Public, Revisited

We’ve written extensively about the benefits of hybrid clouds, since it’s a core part of our founding vision at CloudSwitch.  For most of this past...

0 replies - 1711 views - 06/16/11 by Ellen Rubin in News

On the Battle Lines of PaaS–The Future is Bifurcated

Friend and one-time colleague Krishnan Subramanian posted recently his view of the different ways PaaS products can be differentiated. Very briefly, Krish...

0 replies - 1779 views - 06/15/11 by Ben Kepes in News

VMware’s Cloud Foundry Ushers In The Era Of Open PaaS

Mention VMware to anyone in IT and their immediate thought is virtualization. So dominant is the company in this space that the very word VM has a...

0 replies - 1158 views - 06/15/11 by Scott Morrison in News

Cloud Ready Computing

Cloud computing offers significant economies in deploying and managing applications. While enterprises are not yet ready to move mission-critical...

0 replies - 1946 views - 06/14/11 by Chris Keene in News

Cloud Challenges for Databases Series: Multi-tenancy – Shared Everything versus Shared Nothing

Cloud computing is all about being able to consume shared resources in a linear and elastic manner. If you read my previous post on how Xeround got to the...

0 replies - 1872 views - 06/14/11 by Razi Sharir in News

Why is Cloud Computing so Complicated to Understand?

As part of my job, I get the chance to talk to many people about Cloud Computing on a daily basis. Technology vendors, researchers, analysts, press, and...

0 replies - 2452 views - 06/10/11 by Brian Gracely in News

Daily Dose: Spring Jumps Into M2 of Version 3.1.0

 Spring, the open source application framework, reached its "second and final milestone", and version 3.1 is now available. The new features...

0 replies - 16537 views - 06/10/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose