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The Cloud Computing Bill of Rights started by jamesurquhart
<span style="font-style: italic;">Before you architect your application systems for the cloud, you have to set some ground rules on what to expect from the cloud vendors you either directly or indirectly leverage. It is important that you walk into these relationships with certain expectations, in both the short and long term, and both those that protect
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Was "Cloud Computing" Common Before Dell Made A Grab For It? started by jamesurquhart
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Eucalyptus and You started by jamesurquhart
Last Friday night I came across a post by Sam Dean of OStatic, titled "Eucalyptus: Unsung Open Source Infrastructure for Cloud Computing", and my jaw fell to
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"Cloud Computing" Set Free: Dell Application Denied started by jamesurquhart
Sam Johnston--who gets all the credit for breaking the Dell "Cloud Computing" trademark application story, in my opinion--is reporting that the USPTO has sent a "non-final action" to Dell, according to their
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Are We Overselling the Cloud to Ourselves? started by jamesurquhart
I was doing some casual reading tonight (which is all I have time to do lately, it seems), when I came across this post from Thomas Wailgum of CIO.com on InfoWorld. (Ain't syndication grand?) The
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Watch out for Cisco, kids! started by jamesurquhart
What is the most important enabler of distributed computing architectures, such as cloud oriented architectures? What is the one thing that has to be in ample supply before the other elements of the data center come into play? Is it the number of servers or CPU power available for computing? Is it the size and speed of the disks and network storage
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Is a Grid a Cloud? Probably not, but... started by jamesurquhart
Sam Johnston has recently been writing some very provocative posts (provocative as in "thought producing" as well as, at times, "controversial"). One of his latest is his missive on cloud computing,
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Is Dell desparate, or just defensive? started by jamesurquhart
Ugh...

How else do you react to the news the Dell is most of the way down the road towards trademarking the term "cloud computing"?

The only question I have is "why?". What do they gain from this
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The Principles of a Cloud Oriented Architecture started by jamesurquhart
The market is hot. The technologies are appearing fast and furious. The tools you need are out there, but they are
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Google/IBM and "Yahooptel": The Race for the Souls of our Youth started by jamesurquhart
Interesting developments this week as HP, Intel and Yahoo (annointed the title "Yahooptel" by Allistair Croll--see GigaOm post linked later) announce a collaboration to build a cloud targeted at academic and research organizations. Defined, perhaps,
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Off Topic: The Best Way to Serve You, The Reader started by jamesurquhart
I want to ask you, my readers, a question. Would you find it more valuable to have The Wisdom of Clouds managed more like Nick Carr's RoughType or Matt Asay's Open Road?

Let me explain. As you can see, I've been posting less frequently of late. This is due
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Cloud Outages, and Why *You* Have To Design For Failure started by jamesurquhart
I haven't posted for a while because I have been thinking...a lot...about cloud computing, inevitable data center outages, and what it means to application architectures. Try as I might to put the problem on the cloud providers, I keep coming back to one bare fact; the cloud is going to expose a lot of the shortcomings of today's distributed architectures,
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It just keeps getting cloudier and cloudier started by jamesurquhart
Looking for inspiration, I checked out my latest Google Alerts for "cloud computing" and found an interesting--perhaps even disturbing--trend: people are locking in their definitions of cloud computing. The problem is these definitions are largely inconsistent.

First, allow me to make a confession. In my own <a href="http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/03/ah-yes-how-to-define-cloud-computi
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Cloudware: Standard to Watch, or Another Self-Interested Enterprise Play started by jamesurquhart
Rich Miller of Replicate Technologies, Inc. and Telematique fame wrote a post the other day that explored 3TERA's
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The Wisdom of Clouds: "Follow the Law Computing" on Google Groups: Cloud Computing started by jamesurquhart
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Which Sun Do You Orbit? started by jamesurquhart
I love cloud computing. I love the concept, I love many of the implementations, and I love the opportunity that such a major disruption creates for entrepreneurs and tech giants alike. There is much to be excited about, though the market is in its infancy.

Or markets, if you look closely. Simon noted
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"Follow the law" computing started by jamesurquhart
A few days ago, Nick Carr worked his usual magic in analyzing Bill Thompson's keen observation that every element of "the cloud" eventually boils down to a physical
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Why cloud computing doesn't get us out of the woods yet... started by jamesurquhart
Jesse Robbins (a modern Renaissance man if ever there was one) quoted from a post by Theo Schlossnagle, author of Scalable
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Is Amazon Google's biggest threat? started by jamesurquhart
This is a bit of a stretch, but a Greg Linden post, "Amazon page recommendations", suggests that Amazon may be offering a new service soon, one that could turn Amazon into one of the core
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"Follow the Law" Meme Hits the Big Time started by jamesurquhart
A few days ago, I checked in to my w3counter dashboard to see who was linking to my blog, and I discovered an very intelligent continuation of the "Follow the
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ServiceLevelAutomation/~3/317875213/follow-law-computing-on-google-groups.html started by jamesurquhart
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Say what, Mashable?!? Why Microsoft won't be acquiring Amazon started by jamesurquhart
<span class="entry-time"><span class="author vcard">Adam Ostro</span></span>, a Mashable blogger, decided to close his eyes and guess what the big
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VMWare (Finally) Joins the Cloud Computing Race started by jamesurquhart
I missed it when it was actually announced, but VMWare's acquisition of B-Hive is very big news, IMHO, for the enterprise cloud/utility computing market. (Thanks to GridToday
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The Wisdom of Clouds: Off Topic: Scratch that! started by jamesurquhart
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Off Topic: Introducing "Mining Alfresco" started by jamesurquhart
I didn't want to sully this blog by introducing a whole bunch of ECM/Alfresco stuff here, so I created a second blog for that content. Mining Alfresco will cover my experiences in learning the ECM market, Alfresco (look for a lot of technical postings), and how all of that relates to the topic of this
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