Cloud Computing

Operates as an in-memory data grid that dynamically caches, partitions, replicates, and manages application data and business logic across multiple servers.

InteliCloud's engineering team created this disruptive technology by tightly integrating processing, storage, communications and management functionality into one single server chassis

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...

A CITTIO project, Zeppelin enhances the manageability of cloud computing systems. Utilizing WS-MAN and WBEM, Zeppelin's instrumentation provides detailed asset, performance, auditing, benchmarking and usage metering information for cloud infrastructures

Akamai: Experience with some Principles for Building an Internet-Scale Reliable System (PDF)

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.

UC Berkeley View of Cloud Computing

A very thorough and in detail comparison of the some of the heavy hitters of the Cloud Computing Industry

An incredible article that dates back to 2007 explaining the emergence of what we now know as the Google Cloud, giving a thorough understanding of the concept

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) .

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

Service Design Best Practices