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What we learned from 1 million businesses in the cloud

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-we-learned-from-1-million.html

Official Google Blog: The reliability of cloud computing has been a hot topic recently, partly because glitches in the cloud don't happen behind closed doors as with traditional on-premises solutions for businesses. Instead, when a small number of cloud computing users have problems, it makes headlines. As with most things at Google, we are fanatical about measuring the availability of Gmail, and we thought it best to simply share our reliability metrics, which we measure as average uptime per user based on server-side error rates. We think this reliability metric lets you do a true side-by-side comparison with other solutions.
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Impact of Cloud Computing on Enterprise Architecture

http://blogs.progress.com/soa_infrastructure/2008/10/impact.html

What impact will Cloud Computing have on your enterprise architecture? Why should you care? In this podcast David Bressler, SOA Evangelist at Progress Software, presents his thoughts on how Cloud Computing will make it easier for you to get business-critical information to your consumers. As applications become more distributed, the data can often become muddled. During this podcast, David allows you to imagine what the impact would be if you could easily bring information from multiple data sources into the cloud, present it contextually, and then use it in the best way possible.
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Economist special report on corporate IT

http://www.economist.com/members/survey_paybarrier.cfm?issue=20081025&surveyCode=%6E%61

From The Economist, Oct 25th 2008: Information technology is turning into a global "cloud" accessible from anywhere, says Ludwig Siegele. What does that mean for the way people conduct business?
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Open options for cloud computing

http://www.linux.com/feature/144529

Jack M. Germain: Some cloud computing vendors, such as 3tera and Nirvani, push their own proprietary platforms and tools, which forces adopters to limit their options and work in a restricted or closed architecture. When these established vendors say cloud, they mean their cloud. As a result, Web developers may believe that, in order to use cloud computing, they must accept limitations in the way they write and build their applications. But that view is a misconception; open standards for cloud computing are already in place and are being tweaked.
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Cloud Computing: Public-Sector Opportunities Emerge

http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/387269

How cloudy is your IT future looking? Services and activities once done on private computers are now moving "into the cloud," as customers subscribe to computing services hosted by centralized service providers. Although the actual term "cloud computing" came about only late last year, there are already a number of applications, from hardware clouds (where customers rent hardware from a large data center) to software clouds (involving software as a service running on a hardware cloud) and desktop clouds (running word processing or spreadsheet applications from a hardware cloud).
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Clouds and grids - evolution or revolution?

http://news.eu-egee.com/news-detail/article/clouds-v-grid-5.html

This report compares grid and cloud computing services, taking a practical look at implementations of both: namely the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project for grid and the Amazon Web Service (AWS) for cloud. Taking performance, scale, ease of use, costs, functionality and other aspects into consideration, the report looks at the overall opportunity that converging cloud and grid services can bring to users.
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How Cloud And Utility Computing Are Different

http://gigaom.com/2008/02/28/how-cloud-utility-computing-are-different/

Geva Perry: We are witnessing a seismic shift in information technology - the kind that comes around every decade or so. It is so massive that it affects not only business models, but the underlying architecture of how we develop, deploy, run and deliver applications. This shift has given a new relevance to ideas such as cloud computing and utility computing. Not surprisingly, these two different ideas are often lumped together.
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Demystifying Cloud Computing

http://www.cio.com/article/439814/Demystifying_Cloud_Computing

Gunjan Trivedi: Cloud: noun 1. a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground. verb 2. figurative [trans.] make (a matter or mental process) unclear or uncertain; confuse. This is how the New Oxford American Dictionary defines the term cloud'. The first meaning of the term cloud is pretty straightforward. However, when you add 'computing' to it, you get an approximation of the second definition: something unclear and nebulous. Over time, enterprises have been dealt a number of IT buzzwords that have mostly promised the moon. Some have delivered, others bit the dust. When it comes to offering technology in a pay-as-you-use services model, IT professionals have heard it all from on-demand computing, to software-as-a-service, to utility computing.
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Open Source and Cloud Computing

http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/07/open-source-and-cloud-computing.html

Tim O'Reilly: I've been worried for some years that the open source movement might fall prey to the problem that Kim Stanley Robinson so incisively captured in Green Mars: 'History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.' Innovators are left behind, as the world they've changed picks up on their ideas, runs with them, and takes them in unexpected directions. In essays like The Open Source Paradigm Shift and What is Web 2.0?, I argued that the success of the internet as a non-proprietary platform built largely on commodity open source software could lead to a new kind of proprietary lock-in in the cloud. What good are free and open source licenses, all based on the act of software distribution, when software is no longer distributed but merely performed on the global network stage? How can we preserve freedom to innovate when the competitive advantage of online players comes from massive databases created via user contribution, which literally get better the more people use them, raising seemingly insuperable barriers to new competition?
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Cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, Part 1: Introduction and overview

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ar-cloudaws1/index.html

This series introduces you to cloud computing using Amazon Web Services and details the compelling alternative it provides for architecting and building scalable and reliable applications. In this first article, explore the features of this virtual infrastructure and the services that you can use to build today’s Web-scale systems.
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Demystifying the Cloud

http://crm.tmcnet.com/news/2008/06/23/3512488.htm

Web-based software, storage, and other services are enticing alternatives to do-it-yourself IT. But different cloud vendors have different strengths. When people talk about "plugging into the IT cloud," they generally have something very simple in mind-browser access to an application hosted on the Web. Cloud computing is certainly that, but it's also much more. What follows is the longer, more detailed explanation.
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Cloud Computing's Identity Crisis: Does a Definition Matter?

http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/2405960.html

Derrick Harris: Cloud computing ... what the heck is it? Not only do I not possess the magic definition (and I talk about it nearly every day), but I'm not convinced anyone does. Structure 08, held last week in San Francisco, offered attendees the opportunity to wrap their heads around the idea of cloud computing, bringing in some of the biggest names and companies in the industry -- Amazon, Google, Microsoft, GigaSpaces, Salesforce.com, etc. -- to try to clear up the picture. But therein lies the rub: everyone does 'cloud' differently, and depending on your semantical leaning, anyone can be found to offer more true-to-definition cloud computing than the other guy. Is cloud computing open? Should it be? Well, that depends on your definition of 'open.' You get the point.
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Nicholas Carr (2008)
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0393062287

An eye-opening look at the new computer revolution and the coming transformation of our economy, society, and culture. A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power with steam engines and generators and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities not only changed how businesses operated but also brought the modern world into existence. Today a similar revolution is under way. Companies are dismantling their private computer systems and tapping into rich services delivered over the Internet. This time it's computing that's turning into a utility. The shift is already remaking the computer industry, bringing new competitors like Google to the fore and threatening traditional stalwarts like Microsoft and Dell. But the effects will reach much further. Cheap computing will ultimately change society as profoundly as cheap electricity did. In this lucid and compelling book, Nicholas Carr weaves together history, economics, and technology to explain why computing is changing—and what it means for all of us.
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