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101 Thoughts about the "Cloud Foundry" Announcement

This week's Cloud Foundry announcement has the Cloud Computing community buzzing about the OpenPaaS framework driven by VMware. Considering the size of...

0 replies - 14651 views - 04/14/11 by Brian Gracely in News

What to Look for in a Cloud Gateway

The last post explored why more and more enterprises and technology vendors are making the adoption of a cloud gateway a top priority. This post focuses ...

0 replies - 1003 views - 04/13/11 by Ellen Rubin in News

Has Financial Services shown us the Future of Cloud Computing? - Part II

In Part I of this series, I looked at some of the thinking and buyer behavior similarities between today's financial services and today's Cloud Computing...

0 replies - 1115 views - 04/11/11 by Brian Gracely in News

Three Ways to Do Web Apps in the Cloud

Web apps were born to run in the cloud. With endless flexibility, on-demand scaling and great pricing, the cloud meets the business and technical needs of...

0 replies - 1024 views - 04/09/11 by Ellen Rubin in News

Has your Data Center been measured for Cloud yet?

A few weeks back I wrote a post asking, How you planned to measure your Cloud Computing strategy? In that post I was trying to help people understand that...

1 replies - 3574 views - 04/08/11 by Brian Gracely in News

Why Public Clouds Are Looking Hot (Again)

Seems like it was only yesterday when industry pundits were backing away from public clouds in favor of the safer, more big-vendor-compliant “private...

0 replies - 623 views - 04/07/11 by Ellen Rubin in News

MySQL – A Natural Starting Point for Databases in the Cloud

Early in the application development cycle, developers need to decide which database to use – this important decision impacts all facets of the creation...

0 replies - 1278 views - 04/07/11 by Avi Kapuya in News

Cote's rule: If it ain’t broke, don’t cloud it

I took the title of this post from a recent blog entry by Michael Cote. Cloud enthusiasts (often people with limited operations experience) talk in...

0 replies - 725 views - 04/07/11 by Chris Keene in News

Envisioning a World without Enterprise Data Centers

In discussions with our customers, we’ve seen an interesting trend emerge in recent months. A surprising number of customers are telling us that their...

0 replies - 1070 views - 04/07/11 by Ellen Rubin in News

Single Sign-On to Cloud services

I wrote this piece recently for the Cloud Security Alliance for Infosecurity Magazine on Single Sign-On to the Cloud. As a practitioner in this area, it is...

0 replies - 1097 views - 04/06/11 by Mark O'neill in News

Starting ‘Light’ for Enterprises in the Public Cloud Environment

Building an enterprise strategy for the cloud is a complex task being tackled by many organizations today. Some have just started thinking of moving to the...

0 replies - 975 views - 04/05/11 by Avi Kapuya in News

Powering Up Your Datacenter from Scratch

Recently Jason Boche posted about the requirement for a good script to start and stop your datacenter. I’m sure a lot of people read it and said, “I...

0 replies - 817 views - 04/04/11 by Mike Dipetrillo in News

Is Cloud Computing Secure? Prove It

I had a discussion with Wayne Rash the other day about security in cloud computing. He followed up with an excellent article in eWeek with the provocative...

0 replies - 1046 views - 04/02/11 by Scott Morrison in News

What is PaaS (Platform as a Service)

With 2011 being touted as the year of the PaaS there are still many questions to be answered.  We entered the space earlier this year with Mule iON so I...

0 replies - 3335 views - 04/01/11 by Ross Mason in News

The API Gateway As Endpoint

The US Customs and Immigration station at Point Roberts is a small building set on the edge of the coastal rainforest of Washington State. It is the last...

0 replies - 1612 views - 04/01/11 by Scott Morrison in News