5 days ago
deusx : Why Google Chrome Will Dominate | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog) - "Chrome is the end of the browser and the beginning of the Cloud Client. These are quite different things. A Cloud Client is a flexible and configurable Interface in which an application can run. Whether the rest of the application is local or lives
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11 days ago
Linkorama : I'm in Your Google Docs, Reading Your Spreadsheets - Now an employee can accidentally drop it into the lap of a random outsider without even knowing that anything is amiss. That’s the power of cloud computing at work.
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1 month ago
veen : Open Source and Cloud Computing - O'Reilly Radar - "if you care about open source for the cloud, build on services that are designed to be federated rather than centralized. Architecture trumps licensing any time."
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1 month ago
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The role of REST in Cloud Computing
deusx : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The role of REST in Cloud Computing - "I am in no way saying that AtomPub is the solution. What I am pointing out is that if you want federation then you need to design your protocols and APIs RESTfully. In this example it is hypertext, link following, in the AtomPub spec that allows the
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1 month ago
Linkorama : Welcome to Web 3.0 - Marc Benioff on Now Your Other Computer is a Data Center
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Do You Trust Google to Resist Data Mining Across Services? - I don't think we were aiming at a Google weakness. Its a basic security requirement for enterprises
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4 month ago
joshua : Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage
bmilleare : Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage - Awesome write-up for preperation of persistent storage on AWS
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5 month ago
Simon Willison : Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes - Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes. You can store a snapshot of a storage volume to S3 with a single API call, making backups trivial.
Jeremy Zawodny : Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes - Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes: good to hear how well baked this appears to be
bmilleare : Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes - This is potentially game-changing in the cloud computing dept.
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5 month ago
nelson : google app engine thoughts - Google engineer boils down some of his experiences using it.
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veen : Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds - ReadWriteWeb - "Is cloud computing a bad idea? Of course not. It is a wonderful, powerful idea. In this post, we explore the ideas behind cloud computing and argue that it will be an integral part of our future."
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veen : Demystifying Clouds - "In this article, I am going to try to demystify some of the hype around utility cloud computing and focus in on the companies that are providing cloud solutions and the technology components that they are using."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Trust.salesforce.com - System Status - Trust.salesforce.com - System Status: I like the idea of a public health dashboard like this
nelson : trust.salesforce.com - Amazing system status dashboard
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9 month ago
nelson : Amazon SimpleDB - I give Amazon credit; they're doing very exciting things with web services
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10 month ago
deusx : open...: Proprietary Software Does Not Scale - "The whole point about cloud computing is that it has to be effectively infinite - the more people want, the more they get. You can't do that with software that requires some kind of licensing payment, unless it's flat-fee."
Simon Willison : Proprietary Software Does Not Scale - Proprietary Software Does Not Scale. I’ve been thinking this for a while: if you’re using software with a per-CPU license you can’t just roll it out as an image across a bunch of virtual machines when you need to.
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10 month ago
Linkorama : The Enterprise Outlook is Cloudy - Ultimately, information and capabilities will exist in the cloud, and most likely there will be more in the cloud than behind the firewall.
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