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Cloud Computing Discussion

It is interesting to follow the discussion on Cloud Computing among the various media outlets/blogs.  On any given day the opinions range from specific enterprise IT impacts to plan for, to declarations that the “cloud” is just the latest in a long line of failed IT buzzwords, to passionate reader comments decrying the potential loss of [...]

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Infrastructure vs Development

The majority of IT leaders will at some point find themselves in the midst of a conflict between the needs of their business partners and development teams, and the real-world requirements of managing a large systems infrastructure.  The conflicting goals of these groups may have caused simmering frustration just below the surface for some time, [...]

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Amazon Announces Elastic MapReduce

Amazon today announced the launch of Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a new service within the AWS suite that will enable businesses to carve up and parallelize (“map”) large data processing jobs (simulation, research, data mining) within Amazon’s infrastructure.  The Hadoop framework is the foundation of the service.
Like other AWS services, you can provision as much or as [...]

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The “Open Cloud” Fight Begins

Clearly “cloud computing” has reached the mainstream when we hear of interoperability “manifestos” and drama forming around the companies that are already opting out of said manifestos.
ZDNet has an interesting maturity curve of sorts that lists the go-to-market advantages coming together in this space.
My own experience is that a significant percentage of medium/large businesses are [...]

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