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...

James Urquhart and I recorded show #7 of Overcast, our podcast series on cloud computing. It's up and available here for your listening pleasure.In this episode we have a discussion with Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic. Reposting the show notes:Show...

Dion Hinchcliffe on leveraging the convergence of IT and the next generation of the Web.

Service Design Best Practices

Cloud computing -- defined by the ACM Computer Communication Review as a large pool of easily usable and accessible virtualized resources that can be dynamically reconfigured to adjust to a variable load and operated on a pay-per-use model -- has been generating considerable attention throughout the high-performance computing community, in both the commercial and academic sectors. This new model is seen as a possible way for researchers to move from processing and managing their own data sets locally, to relying on large, off-site, commercially-managed data clusters.

The Vocabulary of Cloud Computing