Right now, Google is working on an application-layer protocol aimed at making web pages download twice as fast. Google revealed the early-stage research on...
5 replies - 2425 views - 11/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
After several years of companies industry-wide combining Services
Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM), the
results are mixed....
0 replies - 910 views - 11/02/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles
The potential user impact of changes (e.g. patches or config
changes) made on the Cloud infrastructure (by the Cloud provider) is a
sore point in the Cloud...
0 replies - 849 views - 10/15/09 by vambenepe in News
Encouraged by hypervisor vendors, the confusion between
virtualization and Cloud Computing is rampant. In the industry, the
term “virtualization” (and its...
0 replies - 479 views - 09/29/09 by vambenepe in News
PHP developers with Cloud aspirations rejoice! Zend has announced a PHP toolkit (called the Simple Cloud API
project) to abstract and access application-level...
0 replies - 666 views - 09/28/09 by vambenepe in News
Drip drip drip… Is this the sound of your cloud leaking?
It can happen in different ways. See for example this recent research paper, titled “Hey, You, Get...
0 replies - 890 views - 09/03/09 by vambenepe in News
In this entry I compare four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid,
Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides
for resource management...
1 replies - 1229 views - 07/20/09 by vambenepe in News
This is an exciting time for those who want to shrink the computer.
They are having a field day playing with devices powered by Android,
the iPhone’s Cocoa,...
0 replies - 833 views - 03/06/09 by vambenepe in News
"Cloud computing" is one of the hot topics these days. Especially with the economy downturn, enterprises are looking every opportunity to reduce...
0 replies - 1763 views - 12/23/08 by riho in Articles
"Cloud computing"
is one of the hot topics these days. Especially with the economy
downturn, enterprises are looking every opportunity to reduce...
0 replies - 2142 views - 11/24/08 by riho in Articles
This article will introduce the basic concepts of JGroups and then implement a task distribution system (on top of JGroups), where tasks can be placed into the...
4 replies - 19161 views - 10/06/08 by Bela Ban in Articles
Looking at the current state of Java, we can see that POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) rule the land yet again. Their dominance stretches from enterprise...
26 replies - 16629 views - 10/01/08 by alesj in Articles
I’ve been thinking about doing a series of posts on this for a
while. For some reason I’m inspired to write it now. I’ve been involved
in a number of...
1 replies - 5696 views - 09/10/08 by Alex Miller in News
The air in the room was still and slightly cool, some might complain
too cool. Sitting near the window, providing light filtered by vertical
shades partially...
1 replies - 985 views - 08/20/08 by driveawedge in News
0 replies - 3448 views - 07/29/08 by Matthew Schmidt in Whitepapers