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Cloud computing is one of the most trending subjects in IT today. However, a lot of people are still unable to clearly identify what is the "Cloud"? How to use it? What are its benefits? And why is it gaining popularity? Learn how to make optimal and correct usage of cloud deployment technology. Cutting-edge advice from Atlogys IT consultants panel comprising of Ex-Googlers and Carnegie Mellon Computer Scientists. For cloud deployment architecture, visit http://www.atlogys.com/cloud-deployment-architecture

Cloud computing is one of the most trending subjects in IT today. However, a lot of people are still unable to clearly identify what is the "Cloud"? How to use it? What are its benefits? And why is it gaining popularity? Learn how to make optimal and correct usage of cloud deployment technology. Cutting-edge advice from Atlogys IT consultants panel comprising of Ex-Googlers and Carnegie Mellon Computer Scientists. For cloud deployment architecture, visit http://www.atlogys.com/cloud-deployment-architecture

In a QCon conference presentation on Availability and Consistency or how the CAP theorem ruins it all, Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, examines the tension between availability & consistency in large-scale distributed systems, and presents a model for reasoning about the trade-offs between different solutions.

Google goal is always to build a higher performing higher scaling infrastructure to support their products. How do they do that?

Cloud IT services- Cloud infrastructure combines the new technology with expert architecture to deliver good performance.

Cloud services are being talked up as a fundamental shift in web architecture that promises to move us from interconnected silos to a collaborative network of services whose sum is greater than its parts. The problem is that the protocols powering current cloud services; SOAP and a few other assorted HTTP-based protocols are all one way information exchanges. Therefore cloud services aren't real-time, won't scale, and often can't clear the firewall. So, it's time we blow up those barriers and come to Jesus about the protocol that will fuel the SaaS models of tomorrow--that solution is XMPP (also called Jabber) .

I have been giving a lot of thought lately to cloud pricing. As an adviser to companies from both sides of the issue -- cloud (IaaS and PaaS) providers and cloud users (and potential users) -- I've had an interesting...

cloud-based services may fall outside the scope of established service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance

Everyone interested in cloud computing reports and documentation should start here. It is much better then wide spread McKinseys "report".

The first issue of the RESERVOIR Architecture document - June 2008.

Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems, Jeff Dean, Spanner

Learn basic Amazon SimpleDB (SDB) concepts and explore some of the functions provided by boto, an open source Python library for interacting with SDB. In this "Cloud computing with Amazon Web Services" series, learn about cloud computing using Amazon Web Services. Explore how the services provide a compelling alternative for architecting and building scalable, reliable applications. In this article, learn some of the basic concepts and check out some of the functions provided by boto.