Monthly Archives: September 2008
Cloud Computing and the Financial Crisis
On-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… Continue reading
GoGrid’s “No Hardware” Campaign
I 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. Continue reading
Write Latency Benchmark
This 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 … Continue reading
GigaSpaces on the Joyent Cloud
Kent 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… Continue reading
Oracle and Cloud Computing. Funny.
The 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… Continue reading
