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Cloud computing is a sea change - How sysadmins can prepare | VMUNIX Blues
Great follow on from Mark on how cloud computing / VMs change things for sysadmins, too -- or rather, that they HAVE to change
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http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2008/10/17/cloud-computing-is-a-sea-change-how-sysa...
Cloud Failures Are Serious - Time to Revisit P2P?
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_failures_serious_time_t.php
Creating in Firefox
Going along with some of the recent discussion on the web on cloud computing, this is a nice overview of getting a bunch of stuff done using Ubuntu and the browser.
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http://www.thespinningdonut.com/creating-in-firefox
10gen | Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing
Union Square Ventures has invested in 10gen -- who are building a whole appserver platform: basically an entire abstraction for cloud computing, hosting companies and others as clients.
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http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2008/07/10gen.html
Function as a Service | trevoro.ca | blog
"the further along we go the more tightly knit the internet becomes, and that means that theres opportunity for programmable white label services to propel us further and faster."
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http://trevoro.ca/blog/2008/07/15/function-as-a-service
Eucalyptus: An Unsung Open Source Infrastructure for Cloud Computing | OStatic
Compatible with EC2, but s"upports multiple client-side interfaces"
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http://ostatic.com/164044-blog/eucalyptus-an-unsung-open-source-infrastructure-for-cloud-com...
The Open Source Cloud | OStatic
"Most people don't need or want to build a large-scale computing cluster in their own business, but they could use some of the automation inherent in these systems to their advantage."
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http://ostatic.com/162775-blog/the-open-source-cloud#rss
CloudCamp - Cloud Computing Events: Home
CloudCamp event June 24th before Structure 08
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http://cloudcamp.com
ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: Cloud Computing and Venture Capital
Good post from Reuven on whether or not to take VC money
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http://elasticvapor.com/2008/05/cloud-computing-and-venture-capital.html
When Is the Right Time to Launch Your Own Cloud? - GigaOM
Specifically talks about "launching your own cloud"
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http://gigaom.com/2008/05/08/when-is-it-right-to-launch-your-own-cloud
Amazon Web Services Blog: On Condor and Grids
dww from Drupal land works on Condor...would love to work with him
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http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/05/on-condor-and-g.html
Cloud Computing: Eyes on the Skies
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_18/b4082059989191.htm?chan=technology_techno...
Opinion: Shakeups Ahead for Yahoo!, EMC and Hadoop | OStatic
Opinion that Yahoo's support of Hadoop is part of the shake up of commoditzing grid / cloud, and a threat to folks like EMC that are centralized
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http://ostatic.com/159547-blog/opinion-shakeups-ahead-for-yahoo-emc-and-hadoop
TaoSecurity: CloudSecurity.org
One day (during my working career, I am positive) we will all either 1) be cloud customers or 2) work in the cloud
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http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2008/04/cloudsecurityorg.html
Wanted: Virtualization Engineer, Referee Exp. Pref. - GigaOM
People are starting to think about abstraction layers and where "traditional" network engineering fits into the virtualizaton / cloud landscape
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http://gigaom.com/2008/04/17/wanted-virtualization-engineer-referee-exp-pref
Cloud: commodity or proprietary? « Free Search
"If we develop standard, non-proprietary cloud APIs with open-source implementations, then cloud providers can deploy these and compete on price, availability, performance, etc., giving d...
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http://blog.lucene.com/2008/04/09/cloud-commodity-or-proprietary
al3x.net: Mulling On Google App Engine
Really good write up on App Engine -- push to Django and Python in general, can run REST services on Google and run main website elsewhere...
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http://www.al3x.net/2008/04/mulling-on-google-app-engine.html
Red Dog: Microsoft's Answer to App Engine and AWS? - ReadWriteWeb
Kip Kniskern over at the LiveSide blog spotted a Microsoft job advert that appears to give some insight into a cloud computing platform under development at Redmond that ...
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/red_dog_microsofts_cloud_computing_platform.php
ongoing · Sharecropper Alert
Tim explains how buying into Google App Engine means you're stuck. Hmm, can we clone the API?
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/04/09/Google-Users-API
Anil Dash: Atom Wins: The Unified Cloud Database API
Anil points to Atom / AtomPub as the "cloud database API". Somewhere in there needs to be props for XMPP Pub Sub implementations...
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http://www.dashes.com/anil/2008/04/atom-wins-the-unfied-cloud-database-api.html
The Hadoop Distributed File System: Architecture and Design
More pieces of cloud computing -- and open source, of course
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http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/hdfs_design.html
Codelog: PEAR and Gearman
Gearman enables distributed processing in existing web app systems
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http://clockwerx.blogspot.com/2008/04/pear-and-gearman.html
Official Google Enterprise Blog: Run Even More of your Business in the Cloud
Interesting to see the increased use of the term "cloud" -- this is the Google Apps integration into Salesforce.com, along with Common Craft paperworks video. nice!
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http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/04/run-even-more-of-your-business-in-cloud.html
Irving Wladawsky-Berger: Reflections on Cloud Computing
The second comment again focusing on Amazon S3 / EC2 as examples just underscores the need for competition...
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http://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2008/03/reflections-on.html
What Does Hadoop Mean to You? | OStatic
Lots of people clueing in to what MapReduce / Hadoop can enable.
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http://ostatic.com/158708-blog/what-does-hadoop-mean-to-youss
ELASTRA - The Infinite Database
I actually have an outstanding call with the Elastra guys that I need to make
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http://www.elastra.com
Jungle Disk » Blog Archive » Microsoft gets serious about cloud computing (and competing with Amazon)
"Right now there really aren’t any viable competitors to Amazon S3"
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http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/03/06/microsoft-gets-serious-about-cloud-computing-and-compe...
Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds - ReadWriteWeb
Lots of talk on clouds recently, and also hitting on the fact that relational DBs are problematic...
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/reaching_for_the_sky_through_compute_clouds.php
(mt) Media Temple - Web Hosting Services
Web Hosting and kick ass design
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http://www.mediatemple.net