utility computing

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• Review of Fujitsu’s IaaS Cloud API submission to DMTF

  
  William Vambenepe's blog — Authority: 407
  Things are heating up in the DMTF Cloud incubator . Back in September, VMWare submitted its vCloud API (or rather a “reader’s digest” version of it ) to the group. Last week, the group released a white paper titled “Interoperable Clouds”. And a second submission, from Fujitsu, was made last week and ...
  1 week ago

• Can the Economist entirely be trusted?

  
  Software as Services — Authority: 107
  I think a publication with the renowned integrity and impartiality of The Economist would have the sense to put its hand on its heart and say, ‘We try our best and we’re the best there is, but no, you can’t entirely trust any source.’ But if it were put in a position of asserting its trustworthiness against ...
  2 weeks ago

• Im Live-Blogging the Defrag 09 Conference

  
  Tech~Surf~Blog — Authority: 104
  Here I am for my third consecutive year covering the Defrag conference in Denver. What an awesome event!  The cream of the crop in tech -- big thinkers, and lots of the Internets movers-and-shakers and upcoming leaders. As Ive done at two previous conferences this year, Ill be live-blogging the proceedings right ...
  2 weeks ago

• An SWCSA twitstigation discovers unmatched socks and explores human error

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 461
  Theres nothing quite like repetitive tasks to make the mind go numb and when you are seeing cross-eyed, its easy to make mistakes.  Welcome to the world of laundry and storage provisioning. 3PAR has a new tool, called Autonomic Groups to help with repetitive provisioning tasks.
  2 weeks ago

• Managers, there are only three answers to employee questions

  
  Cube Rules — Authority: 491
  Managers have a formal way of evaluating an employee’s work — the performance review. Most people working in cubes don’t have the same formal option to evaluate their manager, but that doesn’t mean employees are not rating managers. Employees do that all the time. You can have twenty-seven ways in an article ...
  2 weeks ago

• Desirable technical characteristics of PaaS

  
  William Vambenepe's blog — Authority: 407
  PaaS can most dramatically improve the IT experience in four areas: Hosting/operations efficiency Application-centric management Development productivity Security To do so, there are technical characteristics that PaaS frameworks should eventually exhibit. These are not technical characteristics of a given PaaS ...
  3 weeks ago

• Enumeration of PaaS container types

  
  William Vambenepe's blog — Authority: 407
  What do we need from an on-demand application platform for enterprise software? Here is a proposed classification of container types on which you can create/scale/manage applications. Your application is made of modules that run on these containers (e.g. one app may have two “synchronous web request” modules, one ...
  3 weeks ago

• Persistent Cache - Part 2 (no mask)

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 461
  The Halloween video was fun to make and talk about, but I wanted to give people something a bit less frivolous to watch.  So here is Persistent Cache, part 2 ,which describes how data is copied from memory to memory across our Mesh Active fabric following the removal of a controller from an InServ storage cluster.
  4 weeks ago

• Create up to four virtual desktops for free.

  
  JustBol — Authority: 139
  Board with only one desktop or your one desktop making so much traffic of applications and you are totally confused between those? Try this totally free utility called Desktops v1.0 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell.This Desktops application allow user to create up to 4 virtual desktops in which user can run ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cloud cuts everyones cost of ownership

  
  Software as Services — Authority: 107
  Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several attendees a-twittering. He revealed that the SaaS provider’s multi-tenant application infrastructure supports its 2,850+ customers and 5.4+ million users on just 150 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Stormy Skies for Cloud Computing

  
  Things that Should be Easy — Authority: 104
  I don’t know about you, but I’m somewhat confused about all the hype over “cloud computing”. Don’t get me wrong, accessing services on the Internet makes sense, sometimes. What I don’t understand is how many people tout cloud computing as the silver bullet for all of our IT ills; you know, the way ...
  5 weeks ago

• 3PAR Countdown: Resiliency with performance

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 461
  All systems need contingencies - all the better if they can be built in. Unfortunately, failure mode and disaster operations usually means performance is sacrificed.  In todays world - especially if you are providing cloud services - degraded storage performance means you are going to have serious business issues to ...
  5 weeks ago

• MinnPost.com - ReliaCloud computing services launched to packed house

  
  Tech~Surf~Blog — Authority: 104
  A post I wrote for Minnov8.com got picked up by another Twin Cities online news site... MinnPost.com .
  5 weeks ago

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