Tag Archives: open
Bifurcating Clouds
There will soon be two major paths for cloud computing providers: commodity and premium. If you read my series, Cloud Futures, you’ll know that I broke down cloud service providers into three major categories: service clouds, consumer clouds (previously ‘commodity’)[1], … Continue reading
My Top 5 Cloud Posts in H1 2009
Frequently new readers are curious about this blog. It helps when I periodically summarize the most popular blog postings. So, without further ado, here’s the top 5 posts in the first half of ’09. Be sure to also check out … Continue reading
Up, Out, Centralized, and Decentralized
It can be confusing to understand how to scale computing systems, but it’s not rocket science. There are really only two main axes of scale: out and up. Closely related to the axis of scale is the general type of … Continue reading
Infrastructure as Code Presentations
If you’re into cloud and Internet/web operations this past few weeks saw several very important conferences, including Open Source Bridge, Velocity Conference, and Structure ’09. I’m not going to review either of these since I wasn’t at Structure and only … Continue reading
The “Open” Cloud is Coming
The rhetoric from open source pundits about the ‘closed’ cloud has already started. From Richard Stallman to others there has been nay-saying related to the cloud being ultimately closed and proprietary. This is a fundamentally misguided understanding. Where ever you … Continue reading
Cloud Standardization Like Internet Standardization?
One of my favorite and very opinionated folks is Benjamin Black. He just posted a presentation he gave last year that mirrors some of my earlier thoughts about the parallels between the advent and standardization of Internet+TCP/IP and Cloud Computing. … Continue reading
