Infrastructure

Spiceworks is Becoming a Force in the IT Community

Network management, monitoring, help desk, software reporting, and PC inventory for small and medium sized businesses - all of this for free?  Believe it. ...

0 replies - 760 views - 01/22/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Daily Dose - Mozilla Shifting Extensions to Jetpack and Personas

Mozilla Shifting Extensions to Jetpack and Personas   

0 replies - 4916 views - 01/11/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

The Force.com Platform Today

Salesforce applications are used by nearly 60,000 businesses.  Those business run more than 100,000 Salesforce applications and those applications have over...

0 replies - 1535 views - 12/29/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Cloud Security Recommendations

Only seven months after their first security guide, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has released a second document: The Security Guidance for Critical Areas...

0 replies - 950 views - 12/28/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Will SPDY Make the Internet Faster?

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 - 3408 views - 11/13/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Dynamic SOA and BPM

After several years of companies industry-wide combining Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM), the results are mixed....

0 replies - 1380 views - 11/02/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Cloud platform patching conundrum: PaaS has it much worse than IaaS and SaaS

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 - 1135 views - 10/15/09 by William Vambenepe in News

Look Ma, no hypervisor!

Encouraged by hypervisor vendors, the confusion between virtualization and Cloud Computing is rampant. In the industry, the term “virtualization” (and its...

0 replies - 628 views - 09/29/09 by William Vambenepe in News

Thoughts on the “Simple Cloud API”

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 - 941 views - 09/28/09 by William Vambenepe in News

Are these your files? I found them on my cloud

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 - 1051 views - 09/03/09 by William Vambenepe in News

REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 1: Cloud APIs)

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 - 1477 views - 07/20/09 by William Vambenepe in News

The datacenter as a programmable entity

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 - 980 views - 03/06/09 by William Vambenepe in News

Cloud Computing Platform Comparison: (part 1)

"Cloud computing" is one of the hot topics these days. Especially with the economy downturn, enterprises are looking every opportunity to reduce...

0 replies - 2547 views - 12/23/08 by Ricky Ho in Articles

Amazon Web Services

"Cloud computing" is one of the hot topics these days. Especially with the economy downturn, enterprises are looking every opportunity to reduce...

0 replies - 2546 views - 11/24/08 by Ricky Ho in Articles

A Simple Clustered Task Distribution System

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 - 23213 views - 10/06/08 by Bela Ban in Articles