James Urquhart's Public Library

There is not doubt that cloud computing will trigger new business opportunities. High end processing of various digital forms of data is certainly a compelling example. But will new market places be formed before cloud standards mature?

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Wow. Missed this announcement, but kudos to Javier and team for a very interesting play. As William notes here, now SpringSource has the opportunity to extend built-in monitoring beyond the application to the infrastructure and middleware systems.

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Phil Wainewright highlights one of the really interesting trends in technology start-ups: companies building their businesses on other businesses. Salesforce.com has companies launching on Force.com, and Phil highlights the Rootstock launch on NetSuite. Keep an eye on this trend; it will only accelerate from here.

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Accountants are actually one of the surprising early adopters of cloud computing. (Perhaps it is because of the number of small accounting businesses.) Vinnie asks an interesting question at the end of this post.

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More on customer service in the cloud; this time focused more on SaaS. Some great links to real life customer experiences, that reinforces the argument I made last week.

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An interesting cluster architecture that may have a place in the cloud...

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Simon Phipps clarifies his position on Google App Engine's Java implementation (he loves it!) and calls for a Java Cloud Profile to prevent Java Mobile-like splintering of execution pofiles. I heartily support that suggestion, and agree with Simon that it would be nice to see Google take the initiative here.

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UCS benchmarks are in, and they rock. I know I'm supposed to be biased, but you have to admit this is eye-opening, sexy, next generation performance--kind of like the Ferrari linked to from the post...

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From @rachelchalmers. Thunder volcano computing?

Interesting Java development model for EC2.

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This is a very interesting model for cost comparisons of IaaS services. Using the vocabulary of operational analysis, Theodore Orntzigt shows how some basic pricing comparisons can be thought out. GoGrid comes out well against Amazon in his first example.

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Cool generalist post about the "retro-lution" going on in the database space as application developers begin to see that not all problems are relational, thus not all databases should be relational. Good high level writeup from Google.

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Interesting article covering a spread of very high scale cloud architectural concepts. Worth a read for the geekiest of you out there.

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An excellent review of the Berkeley paper, "A Berkeley view of cloud computing", released last week. I didn't read the paper in depth, so some of this I can't refute or support, but my cursory view of the paper led me to many of the summary conclusions as well. In fact, as a result of this, I may spend time in the next couple of days reading this in depth.

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The tireless Sam Johnston cronicals several Google notes of interest (this from the end of January). Seems Sam is voting for Java as the next Google App Engine language. That would certainly be a game changer.

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Think the cloud is risky for enterprises? Think about what it means to the providers. Never fear, however, the insurance industry is near to mitigate that risk. Check out this video in which Drew Bartkiewicz of The Hartford talks about the new product they have put together around cyber privacy and security risks.

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This is a very cool article about gaming in the cloud. I am beginning to expect this will be a huge topic late '09 and throughout '10.

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Great coverage of the Mag.nolia data corruption scandal...yes, I said scandal. I know this stuff is difficult, and that there is much that can go wrong in a web-scale application, but seriously--no guarantee that bookmarks prior to, say, last Monday would be restored? Big time fail.

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With little governance, are we living in the "wild west" days of cloud computing? I would argue the need isn't so much for governance itself (a customer's responsibility) but governance automation (which would need customer and provider components to do thoroughly).

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This article balances the debate between the "can do" and "can't do" compliance in the cloud camps. The more I hear, the more I think a large percentage of compliance regulations can in fact be handled with some work in existing clouds.

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