Archive for September, 2008
Cloud Computing and the Financial Crisis
September 29th, 2008On-Demand Enterprise just published a piece I wrote about some of the lessons learned from the current financial crisis and cloud computing. Although there is of course no direct connection, there are some interesting conclusions.Here’s an excerpt:Although I’m not suggesting…
GoGrid’s “No Hardware” Campaign
September 26th, 2008I really like the new “No Hardware” campaign from our friends at GoGrid, picking up on Salesforce.com’s “no software” slogan. John is hilarious in the role of Dr. GoGrid.
Write Latency Benchmark
September 26th, 2008This post will focus on the Write latency benchmark.
This benchmark is relevant mostly for trading applications that are required to submit a request into the backend system as fast as they can. The goal of this benchmark is to understand how much time it takes for a single write operation done by a single remote [...]
GigaSpaces on the Joyent Cloud
September 25th, 2008Kent Lagley writes on the Joyent blog about the work he has done with Dekel and Owen running GugaSpaces on the Joyet Accelerators. It’s a well-written detailed blog and in a post entitled Cloud Computing with Java, Kent adds some…
Oracle and Cloud Computing. Funny.
September 24th, 2008The announcement by Oracle this week that they are “on the cloud” was once again quite an amusing piece of public relations. I don’t know if Oracle is serious when they make these announcements or if they are secretly smiling…
