Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 1, 2009
Here’s my attempt to put together the list of things I expect to happen to Cloud Computing in 2009 – kind of natural thing to do the fist day of the year, right?
Overall, this is going to be a year when cloud computing will start rapidly maturing with competition heating up on the infrastructure/platform level, [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 24, 2008
Here are my notes from the third day of SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo (see also my notes from day 1 and day 2):
Peter Nickolov – President & CTO of 3tera – gave a pitch on how their technology (AppLogic) lets customers use cloud computing for high-availability solutions.
In a nutshell, Peter had an instance of SugarCRM [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 29, 2008
Now that we had a few days to look at Microsoft’s Windows Azure it is time to compare it with other alternatives on the market. For our comparison we picked solutions from the biggest players in the market and potential to impact the industry in that area: Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google App [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 1, 2008
Is VMware’s vCloud – a killer for Amazon’s EC2 services? It definitely sounds like they are shooting to get into the same market.
In a nutshell, Amazon allows you to have your (XEN-based) virtual machines run in Amazon’s data center and execute your application. This is great and makes Amazon a leader in that space today [...]