The Wisdom of Clouds - Latest Comments

Re: Cisco's Nexus 1000v and the Cloud: Is it really a big deal?

FreddySimpson — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:30:41 -0000

As longs as it has CISCO written all over I trust it. I know that many well known businesses can make mistakes but this one really makes me think they're serious enough to make good products.
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Re: Amazon Adds Windows Server to EC2

eddiepetosa — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:42:13 -0000

I don't know why Amazon hasn't thought of using windows dedicated servers earlier. They've had quite a history, changed their hosts for a while but they never had the site down. That's something!

Re: A Quick Guide To The "Big Four" Cloud Offerings

rss1965 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:59:16 -0000

Cloud computing, the dynamic data center.

Cloud computing helps to increase the speed at which applications are deployed, helping to increase the pace of innovated networked computing. Service deployed applications; Cloud computing can be provided using an enterprise data center’s own servers, or it can be provided by a cloud provider that takes all of the capital risk of owning the infrastructure.

Cloud computing incorporates virtualization, data and application on-demand deployment, internet delivery of services, and open source software. Virtualization enables a dynamic data center where servers provide resources that are utilized as needed with resources changing dynamically in order to meet the needed workload.

The combination of virtual machines and virtual appliances used for server deployment objects is one of the key features of cloud computing. Additionally, company’s can merge a storage cloud that provides a virtualized storage platform and is managed through an API, or Web-based interfaces for file management, and application data deployments.

Layered Service providers offering pay-by-use cloud computing solutions can be adjacent to company’s equipment leases. Public clouds are run by third party service providers and applications from different customers are likely to be mixed together on the cloud’s servers, storage systems, and networks. Private clouds are built for the exclusive use of one client, providing the utmost control over data, security, and quality of service. Private clouds can also be built and managed by a company’s own IT administrator. Hybrid clouds combine both public and private cloud models which may be used to handle planned workload spikes, or storage clouds configuration. Dedicated audits for security policies are a must.

The benefits of deploying applications using cloud computing include reducing run time and response time, minimizing the purchasing and deployment of physical infrastructure. Considerations for Energy efficiency, flexibility, simplified systems administration, pricing based on consumption, and most of all limiting the footprint of the data center. Virtualized solutions: http://www.shopricom.com

Re: Cloud Computing and the Constitution

Rico479 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:52:32 -0000

If your company originates from within the US, your data is under US regulations. If you're outside of the US & house data with a company whose technology is based within or on US systems - it is subject to US Law. Only way to theoretically circumvent this is to establish a company outside of the US and store your information there - caveat is that if the US wants what you have then they're gonna get to it (legal or not). Good rule of thumb - if your data is available via a network & that network is connected to the Internet then it's public to the world.

Re: "Follow the law" computing

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Re: GigaSpaces introduces portable PaaS

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Re: The PaaS Spectrum: Choosing Your Coding Cloud

Maldini3105 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:50:26 -0000

Good comments: I'm looking at what should be stated as best guidelines for coding to the cloud. For example (irrespective of language) how do you code for:

- horizontal V's vertical scalability
- loose coupling
- data/information versus functional services
- static versus dynamic IP addresses

etc

Is there any thinking on best practices on soem coding and designgenerics for public v's privae cloud ..etc

Thanks for any comments and/or poiners

Mal

Re: The PaaS Spectrum: Choosing Your Coding Cloud

Maldini3105 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:50:20 -0000

Good comments: I'm looking at what should be stated as best guidelines for coding to the cloud. For example (irrespective of language) how do you code for:

- horizontal V's vertical scalability
- loose coupling
- data/information versus functional services
- static versus dynamic IP addresses

etc

Is there any thinking on best practices on soem coding and designgenerics for public v's privae cloud ..etc

Thanks for any comments and/or poiners

Mal

Re: 9 Sources of Cloud Computing News You May Not Know About

Damien — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:08:31 -0000

Another important source i have subscribed for cloud computing news is http://www.oncloudcomputing... . I get daily updated 15-20 important cloud computing news.

Re: The Wisdom of Clouds is moving!!!

Ares — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:35:21 -0000

Too bad you have to register to comment on the new posts. I used to like to read them and put my 2 cents in! I'm happy for you, though. Good luck!

Re: Do Your Cloud Applications Need To Be Elastic?

colocation — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:01:30 -0000

Thanks for this post - i have been trying to work out which to chose - colocation or on site this is a great cost analysis break down. Cheers

Re: Cloud Computing on Google Groups is Dead to Me

mike — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:21:24 -0000

try www.speakingcloud.com

Re: A Quick Guide To The "Big Four" Cloud Offerings

Khürt L. Williams — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:35:47 -0000

Based on your table my choice would be for the big "Two". Google and Amazon. Concerns about "lock in" would remove Salesforce and Microsoft from my consideration.

Re: Why cloud computing doesn't get us out of the woods yet...

Liftchair — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:45:36 -0000

I'm sure that advances will appear over the coming years to bring us closer, but at the moment there are too many issues and costs with network traffic and data movements to allow it to happen for all but select processor intensive applications, such as image rendering and finite modelling.

Re: The Wisdom of Clouds is moving!!!

SV — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:41:22 -0000

I would like to talk to you about your articles. Please email me.

Thanks,

Re: http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/in-cloud-computing-good-network-gives.html

jamesurquhart — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:22:22 -0000

Two places to pick up the conversation:

My new blog on CNET: http://news.cnet.com/the-wi...
The Greg Ness founded http://infra20.com

Re: http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/in-cloud-computing-good-network-gives.html

kanimas — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:54:47 -0000

where can i get more information on network related to cloud computing? seriously interesting stuff u've got here man

Re: The enterprise "barrier-to-exit" to cloud computing

Mikhail Malamud — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:48:21 -0000

Key flaw in this argument is that enterprises do very little new project development and that they are happy with their existing infrastructure. Many customers I work with do have very high barrier of exit but they do not want to just get up and move. Instead they are looking if new projects are good cloud candidates and many are. Secondly, there are number of clients who have outsourced their operations to companies like CSC or big indian pureplays are not particularly happy. There is substantial pain that makes them look at the cloud over again.

Re: The enterprise "barrier-to-exit" to cloud computing

Justin Grant — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:03:31 -0000

Thanks for a really great, insightful post. I like your point on traditional organisations with a sunk investment in infrastructure having a barrier to shift into the realm of cloud computing. It made me realise that the cloud can harbour agile organisations, that leverage meta-data trends from the web to target their services, then as the niche dies down and becomes less profitable, they can quickly move onto targeting the next hot spot. Large enterprises simply can move that quickly, so this is a good strategic opportunity for SMEs.

Re: Is Amazon in Danger of Becoming the WallMart of the Cloud?

homesteading — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:34:46 -0000

i agree, commercialism has invaded rural areas therefore "killing" town businesses. as much as we want to "save" them, there is also what we call "saving" money. the most logical thing is to probably go where the goods are cheap.

Re: The Wisdom of Clouds is moving!!!

jamesurquhart — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:02:26 -0000

There are tradeoffs, to be sure. (For instance, I can't track my own traffic anymore, so I must break my statistical crack addiction.) However, in the long term it will be an invaluable venue. I hope to entice you to read as many as possible, but I, too, will miss the long-form feeds.

Thanks to you and all of the other gracious readers out there for turning what was just a place to vent into a community that I treasure and aim to serve the best I can.

Re: VMWare (Finally) Joins the Cloud Computing Race

shankyrhodes — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:44:23 -0000

Hi,

we are considering to buy a VMware Virtual Center.
We have two servers running VMware Standard edition.
Do you believe it will be worth it? Or do we have to
upgrade our VMware licenses to Enterprise before upgrading
virtual center to make it worth it. I had just read the
following article
VMware virtual center real value

Re: The Wisdom of Clouds is moving!!!

William Vambenepe — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:50:50 -0000

Congrats James. It's great news for you and for all the readers who may not have otherwise found you.

For us long-time readers it's a bit bittersweet for plumbing reasons: the CNET RSS feed doesn't contain the full posts anymore (what a hassle, I used to always read your posts in full but now I don't always click) and you have to register w/ CNET to comment.

We were spoiled... :-) All the best.

Re: A Quick Guide To The "Big Four" Cloud Offerings

agbiotec — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:00:21 -0000

I'm really waiting to see the features on Sun's offering (network.com), which will come out sometime early after New Year's...

Re: The Two Faces of Cloud Computing

James Grid — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:28:07 -0000

Probably we will see an evolution of Server Clouds to Scale-out Clouds in the following years. Since traditional software have to deal with problems of scalability and reliability, and in order to scale on these traditional architectures you need to invest a lot of money, IT departments will assign budget for new developments and evolutions that will handle scalability and reliability directly thanks to the services offered in the Scale-Out Clouds. I guess this is the goal of Azure and Caroline in the long term.
Server Clouds are not here to stay.