Wisdom of Clouds

  • Hedge your bets in cloud computing

    The future role of cloud computing is in many ways unpredictable and ever changing. What balance of traditional infrastructure, private clouds, and public cloud services will your IT department consume in the next three years? Five years? The trick is to hedge your bets wherever you can.

  • Amazon APIs as cloud standards? Not so fast

    Some people consider Amazon's APIs to be the de facto cloud computing API standard. I don't agree for several reasons--not the least of which is that it's too early for cloud standards in the first place.

  • The intersection of open source and cloud computing

    There has been much discussion about the relationship between open-source software and cloud computing. How will the two trends affect each other in the years to come?

  • 'Behavioral cloudonomics'cuts both ways

    An analysis of behavioral economics applied to cloud computing adoption triggered an enthusiastic response from some cloud enthusiasts. However, it might be prudent to remember that the analysis applies equally to adopting the cloud...and leaving it.

  • The'Cloud Computing Bill of Rights': 2010 edition

    Here's an updated edition of a post I wrote in August 2008 that outlined a possible Bill of Rights for cloud consumers, vendorsm and governments.

  • Does cloud computing need LAMP?

    An article asking who will first offer a LAMP platform as a service offering raises an even more fundamental question: does cloud computing even need the LAMP stack?

  • What cloud computing can learn from'flash crash'

    Last week's"flash crash"may long be remembered as one of the first significant economic events caused by competing computer algorithms, in the form of high-frequency trading systems.

  • James Hamilton on cloud economies of scale

    The Amazon.com vice president and distinguished engineer gives what may be a hallmark presentation on the economics of scale in data centers.

  • Cloud computing and the economy

    Many pundits say cloud computing is taking off because of the current economic climate. But the real story behind cloud's popularity is probably cash flow.

  • Understanding cloud and'devops'--part 3

    With the reasons that cloud computing and"devops"is forcing a change on the way we do app operations firmly established, what are some of the limits to the concept?