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Flight Plan: Cloud Computing Meteorology

Posted on01. Nov, 2009 by vbrown.

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There are so many voices expressing confusing and diverse opinions around the topic of Cloud Computing. Definitions, benefits and risks, strategies for adoption, are all over the map. Most have some merit; very few make practical sense and are actionable. My goal in this series is to provide fundamental definitions and practical strategies that can [...]

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The Best Clouds Will Use SOA

Posted on28. Sep, 2009 by vbrown.

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I think that one of the most significant benefits from the over-heated interest in Cloud Computing may be the result of a change in the way we think about Services (SOA). Effective use of a Cloud - especially IaaS and PaaS - will essentially mandat

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Cloud Computing Books

Posted on09. May, 2009 by vbrown.

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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 Ge

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Clouds and SOA: A powerful combination

Posted on07. May, 2009 by vbrown.

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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 da