Today is the 5 year anniversary of Firefox 1.0. Thousands of add-ons have been contributed over the years because Firefox's XUL based architecture makes it...
1 replies - 2358 views - 11/10/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Developers are always looking for, and sometimes making, the next tool that will simplify or eliminate steps in building an application. Abstractions are...
0 replies - 710 views - 11/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Adobe is lashing out at Apple on its Flash Player page for the iPhone. When you go to the Flash Player on your iPhone, the text now says "Apple...
0 replies - 2805 views - 11/03/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
ICANN, the nonprofit responsible for worldwide domain names and IP addresses, has decided to allow the introduction of non-Latin characters into domain...
0 replies - 3538 views - 10/30/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
More revealing statements have finally surfaced about Oracle's future plans for popular Java tools. Oracle recently updated its FAQ on the future of Sun...
10 replies - 10149 views - 10/28/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Amazon says it will cut prices on its core EC2 cloud services starting November 1st. You can tell they are getting anxious about the impending release of...
0 replies - 1919 views - 10/27/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
What happened to the separation between the model and the protocol
in management APIs?
0 replies - 318 views - 09/09/09 by vambenepe in News
In Part 2, Peter described optimization of infrastructure for green computing and how Windows Azure is different from other clouds. In this final part, Peter...
0 replies - 799 views - 08/10/09 by pkoen in Articles
In part 1, Peter introduced green computing with Azure. He discussed where power saving can be achieved and the four levels of optimizing your...
0 replies - 950 views - 08/03/09 by pkoen in Articles
In this three part series, Peter Koen shares his paper titled "Move to the Blue Cloud and get Green". He discusses how Microsoft Windows Azure can...
0 replies - 965 views - 07/27/09 by pkoen in Articles
I have given up, at least for now, on understanding what Microsoft
wants Oslo (and more specifically the “M” part) to be. I used to pull
my hair reading...
0 replies - 926 views - 06/12/09 by vambenepe in News
A lot of attention has been focused on technical standards for Cloud computing, especially over the last month (e.g. DMTF incubator announcement).
That’s...
1 replies - 425 views - 05/27/09 by vambenepe in News
As promised,
here are some more thoughts on the creation by DMTF of an incubator for
Cloud standards. The first part of this blog asks whether DMTF will
play...
0 replies - 975 views - 04/30/09 by vambenepe in News
Before rushing to standardize “Cloud APIs”, let’s take a look back
at the previous attempt to tackle the same problem, which is one of IT
management...
0 replies - 1711 views - 04/28/09 by vambenepe in News
IT360 CONFERENCE & EXPO 2009
April 8, 2009, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building, Toronto, Canada
IT360 focuses on Key IT Pillars:
0 replies - 1535 views - 03/24/09 by WeiLing in Announcements