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Miko Matsumura: The Role, Risk, and Future of Cloud Computing

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 - 348 views - 11/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/4

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 - 1788 views - 11/03/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/31

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 - 2489 views - 10/30/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Oracle Reveals Plans for NetBeans, Glassfish, and VirtualBox

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 - 8909 views - 10/28/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/28

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 - 1448 views - 10/27/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Separating model from protocol in Cloud APIs

What happened to the separation between the model and the protocol in management APIs?

0 replies - 293 views - 09/09/09 by vambenepe in News

Part 3: MS Azure and Green Computing

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 - 753 views - 08/10/09 by pkoen in Articles

Part 2: MS Azure and Green Computing

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 - 881 views - 08/03/09 by pkoen in Articles

MS Azure and Green Computing

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 - 849 views - 07/27/09 by pkoen in Articles

With M (Oslo), is Microsoft on the path to reinventing RDF?

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 - 896 views - 06/12/09 by vambenepe in News

Cloud APIs need to be complemented by Cloud processes

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 - 406 views - 05/27/09 by vambenepe in News

A pulp view of Cloud computing politics

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 - 937 views - 04/30/09 by vambenepe in News

A post-mortem on the previous IT management revolution

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 - 1658 views - 04/28/09 by vambenepe in News

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IT360 CONFERENCE & EXPO 2009 April 8, 2009, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building, Toronto, Canada IT360 focuses on Key IT Pillars:

0 replies - 1480 views - 03/24/09 by WeiLing in Announcements

Cloud ontology: to boldly go where ITIL, Grid and SOA have gone before

I wasn’t at the recent Cloud interop meeting in Mountain View, but based on blog reports from those who were (Stu, James and Bob) a key takeaway is that we...

0 replies - 1958 views - 01/30/09 by vambenepe in Articles