The Troposphere
Recent Posts
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Product release round-up
- TechTarget 08 Jun 2009 -
Sun evacuee Mickos lands at cloud start-up RightScale
- TechTarget 29 May 2009 -
Splitters in CloudCamp?
- TechTarget 28 May 2009
What follows is a semi-regular exposition on all the products announcements we can't cover in longer form, kids. They're all interesting technology, really neat in some cases, strategically ...
Open source ringleader Mårten Mickos and former windmill-tilter-in-chief at developer darling MySQL, apparently couldn't bear the gilded cage of Sun's "Senior Vice President" offices. He fled Sun ...
The following post, Enomaly owns CloudCamp™ - has it jumped the shark?, by Sam Johnston, working group secretary at Open Grid Forum, is definitely 'inside baseball' but an interesting look at how ...
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NIST releases draft definition for cloud computing
- TechTarget 27 May 2009 -
Cloud draws crowds as Interop winds down
- TechTarget 21 May 2009 -
Day 2 dawns at Enterprise Cloud Summit
- TechTarget 19 May 2009 -
SearchCloudComputing.com is live!
- TechTarget 14 May 2009 -
Feds get specific on cloud interoperability
- TechTarget 14 May 2009 -
Cloud management startups vie for VC dollars
- TechTarget 12 May 2009 -
Rich Wolski on the difference between data centers and clouds
- TechTarget 07 May 2009
The ship of state turns ponderous and slow, but it appears that the National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a working draft definition for cloud computing. Dated May 22, NIST's ...
It's great fun watching a big trade show wind down. Day one is all vigor and pizazz and manic tweets. By the third day, attendees are sprawled in the halls, their listless fingers struggling to ...
We're exploring new frontiers at the Enterprise Cloud Summit, as cloud deckhands try to haul up the sails and ship owners look for value. Overall the mood is good; people are receptive, especially ...
Exciting news, the site I've been brought on to write and report for launched today! There's plenty of content there already, including straight news, advice, and expert commentary. Many of the ...
Anyone hoping to sell infrastructure as a service to the Government will need to explain how they meet the following criteria for interoperability in the a cloud setting: 5.1 Describe your ...
Cloud computing is the fresh word on everyone’s lips; the push started in earnest a year or more ago, when Amazon’s Web Services portal came into its own and the reality of instant-on, ...
I'm working up an article about EUCALYPTUS and Eucalyptus Systems, cf. my earlier post on't. Leaving aside the giggles over nomenclature, I had quite a nice talk with Dr. Rich Wolski, the lead ...
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Citrix and Amazon hop into mindbending infinite-loop bed together
- TechTarget 05 May 2009 -
Cloud Security Alliance in favor of open standards
- TechTarget 04 May 2009 -
EUCALYPTUS sprouts business shoots
- TechTarget 29 Apr 2009 -
Amazon's New Elastic Map Reduce
03 Apr 2009 -
In 140 characters tell me why map reduce is important?
02 Apr 2009
We're sensing someone had an office pool going on "alliteration they could get away with" for this slug line: "Citrix Announces Citrix C3 Lab Built on Amazon Web Services to Connect Cloud Computing ...
Very interesting conversation with Nils Puhlmann, a co-founder of the Cloud Security Alliance originally about the DTMF initiative for open standards, but went out and about a bit; here are three ...
In what is surely a contender for the most-complicated backronym of the ages, the Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems, first developed at Middleware ...
Amazon has offered a new web service that provides Hadoop services called Elastic Map Reduce. Hadoop is a Java based framework that implements Map Reduce. Map Reduce is a method of programming ...
This morning Lance Weatherby, a local Atlanta venture catalyst, asked a simple question on twitter – "In 140 characters tell me why map reduce is important please.” When I saw the question it made ...