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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.
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…
A True Cloud Practitioner
September 22nd, 2008This is a long overdue acknowledgment of my friend and colleague at GigaSpaces, Dekel Tankel’s blog - Thoughts from the Clouds. A lot of people out there are talking about cloud computing, without truly understanding the issues, and without real-world…
