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jg21 writes:
Since both Amazon Web Services and Tableau Software have showed the Web world that they are willing to withdraw service from a customer (WikiLeaks) without even receiving any kind of official legal challenge from a third party, it is hardly surprising that Cloud Computing Journal's commentary on the whole "Cablegate" issue should view it through the prism of Cloud Computing and the possible implications for the Web in 2011 and beyond. As open source freedom fighter Simon Phipps writes in his ComputerWorldUK blog, behavior like this by Amazon and Tableau "informs us as customers of web services and cloud computing services that we are never safe from intentional outages when the business interests of our host are challenged."
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jg21 writes:
Given its status as the most-prominent-Website-on-the-Web-to-carry-only-very-few-posts-on-Cloud-Computing, it would maybe be fitting were Slashdot to be the only site on the Web to showcase Cloud Computing Journal's list of "The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem." The list isn't comprehensive, but it is porous. Companies who feel they should be listed can simply post their URL and their claim to Cloud fame right here on /. — clearly the list will grow beyond 250. Perhaps even mushroom. Which begs the question: are there now 500 players in the Cloud Computing ecosystem, or perhaps even 1,000? Estimates and suggestions, please.
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jg21 writes:
Given its status as the-Web's-most-prominent-site-to-have-so-very-few-posts-relating-to-Cloud-Computing, it might be fitting were Slashdot to be the only major site to showcase Cloud Computing Journal's list of "The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computer Ecosystem." It isn't a comprehensive list, but it is a porous one: companies not included who wish to be can submit themselves right here on /. by posting their URL and (brief) claim to Cloud fame. The list will obviously grow. Perhaps even mushroom. But to how many? Are there ready 500 players in the Cloud Computing ecosystem...or maybe even 1,000? Your best estimates (as well as your suggestions) please!
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jg21 writes:
Virtualization Journal is asking whether yesterday's reports of Intel having acquired Neocleus might not perhaps have been premature. Reason being: the sole source of the news, the Neocleus company blog, has been taken down. Hoax, misunderstanding, or just a mistake — anyone out there know more about this?
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jg21 writes:
In the wake of New York's 5th Cloud Expo, Java veteran and Flex expert Yakov Fain has kick-started a campaign advocating the banning of Wi-Fi from all technical conferences. In a world where business-critical email comes via BlackBerries and iPhones etc., Fain's logic is impeccable: all attendees are doing is casually browsing the Internet, twitting, facebooking, blogging while attending technical presentations, so what's the Wi-Fi for? [From the article: "Is this why you or your employer paid for the ticket? I don't think so."].
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jg21 writes:
Depending on who you believe, cloud computing is either ubiquitous in both enterprise and consumer IT, or doesn't really exist at all as a separate product category. According to this article, recent weeks have seen an unprecedented concentration of Cloud-related articles, blogs, tweets, and events, and — more importantly — of product releases, partnership announcements, and M&A activity. But former PowerSoft/Sybase CEO recently claimed that there really is no specific "cloud computing' sector." Both viewpoints can't be right — so which interpretation are we to believe?
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jg21 writes:
The former founder and CEO of Powersoft, venture capitalist Mitchell Kertzman, claims today that Cloud Computing doesn't exist. His opinion was sought along with that of other software executives still employed full-time in the trenches of Enterprise IT. From his 35,000-foot perch as Managing Director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Kertzman acknowledges that his view is "contrarian." [From the article: "There really is no specific 'cloud computing' sector. I think that the lines between SaaS, PaaS, etc., virtualization and cloud computing are fuzzy and indistinct. To some extent, cloud is an overlay on virtualization, allowing dynamic elasticity for provisioning and deprovisioning, but that doesn't make it a separate sector."]
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jg21 writes:
With $20BN about to be spent by the Federal Government on IT infrastructure investments, this highly analytical article by two Booz Allen Hamilton associates makes it clear that Cloud computing has now received full executive backing and offers clear opportunities for agencies to significantly reduce their growing data center and IT hardware expenditures. President Obama's America is going distinctly cloudy! [From the article: "A few agencies are already moving quickly to explore cloud computing solutions and are even redirecting existing funds to begin implementations ... Agencies should identify the aspects of their current IT workload that can be transitioned to the cloud in the near term to yield "early wins" to help build momentum and support for the migration to cloud computing."]
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jg21 writes:
Only a brave soul would attempt an A-Z of the social media landscape but John Ryan has attempted just that at Social Media Journal. He begins with A-H and has already reached Part Two (H-P). Ryan adds market research based on Alexa, Compete and Quantcast, and both parts have some intriguingly eclectic choices. Worth glancing at to see if there's something out there you're missing...like CouchSurfing for example. [From the article: "If the stickiness [of a particular site] really impressed me, I issued the Social Glue Award to the site."] Such awards are given to, for example, Bebo, Fotolog and LiveJournal, but not to Digg, Ning or Orkut. When he gets to S, however, Slashdot should be safe in the stickiness stakes.
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jg21 writes:
Can the future of Internet technology and enterprise computing be boiled down to just three key areas, as suggested by this informal survey? The participants indirectly imply that you won't miss much of significance in 2008 if you keep your eye on: AJAX, Service Oriented Architecture (a.k.a. SOA), and Virtualization. All three recur repeatedly in a predictions round-up that includes the thoughts of XML's co-inventor Tim Bray, who also mentions mind you that Rails "will continue to grow at a dizzying speed," and Microsoft's senior evangelist Joshua Allen who throws in the worrying observation that that "Net neutrality will take an even worse beating in 2008 than 2007." A gloomy thought.
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jg21 writes:
It's not often that Internet technology futures seems narrowable-down to just three keywords, but this informal survey suggests that you won't miss much of significance in 2008 if you keep your eye on: AJAX, Service Oriented Architecture (a.k.a. SOA), and Virtualization. All three recur in a predictions round-up that includes the thoughts of XML's co-inventor Tim Bray, who also mention Rails "will continue to grow at a dizzying speed," and Microsoft's senior evangelist Joshua Allen who says that "Net neutrality will take an even worse beating in 2008 than 2007."
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jg21 writes:
This AJAXWorld Magazine article indicates how far AJAX has come since devs complained here that it sucked all the time. Eight experts were asked what questions we should now all be asking, with 2008 just around the corner, about where AJAX is headed next. The suggested questions are refreshingly hard-headed, including: "How are we to fix the web?" (Douglas Crockford, JSON inventor), "When will AJAX development finally be easy?" (Google's Christian Schalk), and "Do we really need JavaScript 2.0? Won't it be somewhat irrelevant by the time it becomes commonplace and thus usable?" (Josh Gertzen, lead developer of the ThinWire AJAX Framework). One of the most interesting questions came from Kevin Hakman, co-founder of TIBCO's General Interface: "On what timeline will AJAX skills become commoditized like HTML skills became?" With a question like that, one is reminded that AJAX has come a very long way in a very short time.
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jg21 writes:
Web 2.0 Journal brings to our attention Yahoo! Architect and JSON inventor Douglas Crockford's latest ideas to fix HTML. Not a fan of HTML 5, which is still just an Editor's Draft and not endorsed by W3C yet, Crock puts forward ten ideas that in his view would provide extensibility without complexity, adding that the simplification of HTML he is proposing would reduce the cost of training of web developers and incorporates the best practices of AJAX development. [From the article: "The problems with HTML will not be solved by making it bigger and more complicated. I think instead we should generalize what it does well, while excising features that are problematic. HTML can be made into a general application delivery format without disrupting its original role as a document format."]
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jg21 writes:
In this Ruby on Rails primer for Java developers, Web 2.0 Journal concedes that RoR is behind the times when it comes to deployment, notes that the JRuby project has made enormous progress in helping it play catch-up, and notes that outside of the Rails core team there's a lot of work to drive Rails into very scalable deployments and even into the enterprise. One surprising omission from TFA is that there is no mention of how Sun is working on making Netbeans a kick-ass Rails IDE. [From the article: "The Rails community is continuously working to find inefficiencies in the common tasks that we do as developers. Rails will continue to sand down the rough patches that appear in the development process."]
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jg21 writes:
Software executive and chief technology officer Coach Wei, whose Java credentials are impeccable, has opened up a can of worms over at Web 2.0 Journal by raising the issue of why Java's not in favor any more for building web sites, even complex ones. Even a complex site like Facebook, Wei notes, is not written in Java. [From the article: 'Why do "cool kids" choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java? I have to admit that I do not have an answer. ... the power of Java is a perfect fit for the areas where websites may need more than markups or scripting, such as middleware logic.']
