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Cloud Computing Books
Posted on09. May, 2009 by vbrown.
Ok. Cloud Computing is hitting the mainstream! (I know, for many of us it is already mainstream and we’re deep into it!)
I offer as evidence the emergence of a couple of excellent books on the subject.
”Cloud Application Architectures“, by George Reese, was released in April, and David Linthicum ’s new book, “Cloud Computing and SOA [...]
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Clouds and SOA: A powerful combination
Posted on07. May, 2009 by vbrown.
As evidenced at IBM’s Impact event in Vegas this week, internal/private “Clouds” are a natural evolution (marriage) of platform virtualization and SOA. In leading enterprises, traditional data centers – often a proliferation of internal stovepipe data centers – are continuing to evolve to a central virtualized platform that offers maximum flexibility and use of computing assets [...]
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Cloud Computing: When Does It Make Sense?
Posted on01. Dec, 2008 by vbrown.
Cloud Computing: Is it a revolutionary new approach to providing IT products and services? Or a marketing opportunity? We’ve been evolving to on-site Cloud Computing for a decade. Isn’t off-site Cloud Computing just the latest innovation in outsourcing—which the industry’s been promoting in various forms since the middle of the 20th century?
I’m a strong proponent [...]
