Search / 2,313 posts tagged cloudcomputing

Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and outspoken critic of anything proprietary, recently slammend ‘cloud computing’ as “stupidity” and a “marketing hype campaign”. It makes sense the Stallman is against cloud computing - by its very nature it requires you to be running software on someone else’s machine, which you have no control over.

The Cloud Computing News Desk at this hard-to-remember url ran Maureen O’Gara’s ” Ok, Boys, Cloud Computing Is in the Plan - Steve Ballmer” on October 4, 2008. (Note; when you click the link dismiss the pop up ad and turn off the video for the Windows Server 2008 ad.

Is it just me or does Microsoft's apparent cloud strategy lack any kind of focus. Between their love of various code names, Red Dog, Mesh, Live, Zurich, and Windows Cloud to name a few. I have absolutely no idea what in the world they're planning on doing.

The scariest part of today’s economic turmoil is how preventable it was. I am not talking about additional supervision of an uncontrolled finance sector. While the sub-prime market was risky and obviously short-sighted, the overall laws of supply and demand eventually punish those who take unnecessary risks.

————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————— Enomaly today announced Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform (ECP), after having released an Alpha version in March of this year. ECP is an open source, programmable, cloud computing infrastructure for businesses looking to design, deploy and manage virtual applications in the cloud.

Microsoft PDC: Will the real cloud platform please stand up? Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 1:05 pm Categories: Database, SQL Server, Corporate strategy, Development tools, .Net Framework, Web 2.0, Code names, Virtualization, Mix '08, Utility/cloud computing, PDC 2008, Live Mesh, Oslo Tags: Platform,

There are lots of discussions going on right now about cloud computing is, I even touched on at least some aspects of that last week. This story at Slashdot touched on the issue, and the Cloud Computing GoogleGroup is full of the discussion. But I feel there isn't enough definition of what it isn't.

If anyone’s been following my Twitter feed recently they’ll know that I’ve been getting to grips with Yahoo Pipes. I think it’s an amazing tool and offers the tantalising possibility of creating a wholly modular monitoring system, effectively through programming-like routines which, through a neat graphical interface, largely remove the need for knowing how to program.

News Commentary. Microsoft hasn't announced a name for its forthcoming cloud computing operating system. Microsoft Watch readers have a few suggestions.

New Bamboo, a software company that’s been developing solutions using the infamous Ruby on Rails since its conception, released Panda -- a new Open Source platform designed for the easy uploading, transcoding and streaming of videos on websites.