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Cloud Computing Books
Posted on 09. 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 [...]
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Clouds and SOA: A powerful combination
Posted on 07. 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 on 01. 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 [...]
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