The Troposphere
Recent Posts
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Did Google oversell itself to the City of LA?
- TechTarget 23 Jul 2010 -
Amazon's early efforts at cloud computing? Partly accidental
- TechTarget 17 Jun 2010 -
VMware wants the whole private cloud software stack- and it may get it
- TechTarget 03 Jun 2010
Has the endless optimism and sunny disposition of the Google crew finally led them to bite off more than they could chew? Reported trouble meeting security standards has stalled a high profile deal ...
Former 'Master of Disaster' at Amazon Jesse Robbins has a couple of fun tidbits to share about the birth of Amazon EC2. He said the reason it succeeded as an idea in Amazon's giant retail machine ...
Details of VMware's Project Redwood have been unearthed, and it’s a telling look at where VMware sees itself in the new era of cloud computing: in charge of everything. While Redwood is still vapor ...
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CA's $100 million dollar cloud wager
- TechTarget 26 Feb 2010 -
Cloud computing, 2009 in brief
- TechTarget 31 Dec 2009 -
Amazon lets users bid on unused EC2 capacity
- TechTarget 16 Dec 2009 -
Why is Larry Ellison afraid of the cloud?
- Hurwitz & Associates 30 Sep 2009 -
Measuring the Growth of Cloud Computing
- TechTarget 09 Sep 2009 -
Azure to blaze the way for hybrid cloud
- TechTarget 12 Aug 2009 -
Cloud computing surfaces in local politics
- TechTarget 27 Jul 2009
On Wednesday $4 billion software provider CA bought 20-man 3Tera; analysts reported that CA had paid around 30 times the revenue valuation of the cloud software platform maker. Independent sources ...
It's fun being at the top of a technology wave. The past year in cloud computing has moved with the giddy, inexorable pace that marks a major technological shift in how we use computing power, and ...
Amazon says its new EC2 Spot Instances offering lets user bid on unused EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long as their bid exceeds the current Spot Price. The price will change based on ...
I just finished watching Larry Ellison’s conversation with Ed Zander at the Churchill Club, a Silicon Valley business and technology forum. While these type of dialogues are not rare in the ...
As cloud computing has grown in recognition, and the marketplace has started to attract serious cash, some people are beginning to put some serious effort in to tracking and measuring actual cloud ...
Infosys believes Microsoft is staking out the cloud as the inevitable future of IT -- and designing Azure to be a seamless bridge between hither and thither in order to make the transition in small ...
In a demonstration of cloud computing’s increasing stature in the real world, Washington state freshman state representative Reuven Carlyle called for scrapping a $300 million data center in favor ...
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The Curious Case of CloudSwitch
13 Jul 2009 -
AWS growth info exposed
- TechTarget 13 Jul 2009 -
Infrastructure as Code
13 Jul 2009 -
Paglo goes whole hog to lift log fog; this blog agog
- TechTarget 08 Jul 2009 -
Product release round-up
- TechTarget 08 Jun 2009 -
SearchCloudComputing.com is live!
- TechTarget 14 May 2009 -
Citrix and Amazon hop into mindbending infinite-loop bed together
- TechTarget 05 May 2009 -
Amazon's New Elastic Map Reduce
03 Apr 2009 -
In 140 characters tell me why map reduce is important?
02 Apr 2009 -
The Tale of Three Cloud SLA's
23 Mar 2009 -
Cloud computing and teenage sex...
- TechTarget 06 Mar 2009 -
Amazon claims 400,000 web services users
- TechTarget 03 Feb 2009 -
Rackable Systems CloudRack designed for cloud computing
- Editorial Director, News 03 Nov 2008 -
Five common cloud computing fears
22 Oct 2008 -
rPath offers Cloud Computing Adoption Model, webinar
- Editorial Director, News 21 Oct 2008
A few days ago I had a call with Ellen Rubin, one of the co-founders of a new cloud startup called Cloudswitch. Cloudswitch recently closed an $8M Series B funding from Commonwealth Capital ...
We recently came upon some photos displaying, in fancy picture form, the growth of Amazon Web Services in terms of bandwidth usage and objects stored in Amazon S3. The results are impressive, as ...
A few weeks ago I attended Velocity "09" in San Jose, Ca. One of the sessions used a phrase that I had never seen before and it stung me like a bee. In fact, in my opinion, this new phrase ...
Cloud-based IT management provider Paglo has busted out with an interesting twist on managing network log files: Google-style browser search, cross referenced over time. Paglo says it's the first ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wikpedia says... The SLA records a common understanding about services, priorities, responsibilities, guarantees and warranties. Each area of service scope should have the 'level of service' ...
What do cloud computing and teenage sex have in common? Everyone talks about, few actually do it, and even fewer get it right, according to the following story. Check it out: ...
An industry insider close to Amazon's Web Services (AWS) business unit told us the company claims to have 400,000 customers using its web services offering. AWS includes EC2, the compute-on-demand ...
Fremont, Calif.-based Rackable Systems, Inc. is catering to cloud computing environments with a new server rack designed specifically for cloud environments called Systems CloudRack, the company ...
This blog was written by Caroline Hunter, assistant editor of SearchEnterpriseLinux.com. Don’t let fears about cloud computing prevent you from investigating the technology’s potential to reduce ...
Jake Sorofman, vice president of marketing for rPath, which provides technology for virtualizing software applications and managing cloud and virtualized environments, has offered a five step ...