SaaS: Is It Really Cloud Computing?

ON-DEMAND ENTERPRISE, OCTOBER 7, 2008

Here are some quick thoughts on a couple of yesterday's cloud computing announcements. What these show us are two distinct trends: (1) cloud computing is becoming increasingly viable; and (2) the word "cloud" to describe SaaS is creeping dangerously close to lethal levels.

Data Debasement: Cloud computing will change the way we look at databases.

I, CRINGELY, OCTOBER 3, 2008

The second time through the Appistry team tossed the database, at least for its duties as a processing platform, instead keeping the transaction -- in fact ALL transactions -- in memory at the same time. This made the work flow into read- process- write (eventually). The database became more of an archive and suddenly a dozen commodity PCs could do the work of one Z-Series mainframe, saving a lot of power and money along the way.

Appistry Does Cloud Transition right

ON-DEMAND ENTERPRISE, SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

If people are concerned about the know-how or third-party interface required to scale or perform parallel processing in the cloud, things just got easier with Appistry's announcement that its Enterprise Applications Fabric (EAF) will now be available on two public cloud offerings -- GoGrid and SkyTap.

Cloud computing as cure for over-used software services

SEARCHSOA, SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

"What people are trying to achieve with SOA is a high level of reuse. People want to put a service out and then include that service in another application to get reuse out of it," said Sam Charrington, vice president of product management at Appistry. But, what if there is a big uptick in use? There is recourse with Cloud, said Charrington.

Appistry Pushes into Public Clouds

WEB 2.0 JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Appistry, the ISV with the grid-based cloud application platform that's been focusing on in-house clouds like FedEx' and Lockheed Martin's, is extending its reach to so-called public clouds beginning with GoGrid and SkyTap.

Appistry Targets Cloud Computing

ZD NET, SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

If we consider suppliers that have embraced the cloud computing concept and have offered something to help organizations use this approach to gain additional scalability, performance or reliability as needed, they are, for the most part, suppliers of processing virtualization software, virtual access software and management software for virtualized environments. To the best of my knowledge, today’s announcement by Appistry, is the first coming from a company supplying application virtualization software.

.NET Development coming to a Cloud near you

SEARCHWINDEVELOPMENT, SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

An additional consideration for .NET Cloud developers to think about is how to componentize their applications, Charington said. "Multicore developers need to think in terms of smaller units of code built around a task model," he explained. "In a lot of ways it is an extension of what people have been doing with SOA, in terms of creating modular services and then orchestrating them to create a business process."

Can Ruby, Rails Make Developers Shine in a Downturn?

EWEEK, SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

Will specialty coding skills help developers ride out the financial crisis? Some say environments like Ruby and Ruby on Rails may enable developers to fare better in times of financial stress because they can do more with less and be more productive. Others say that argument is a stretch.

What I learned at Cloud Camp

SD TIMES, JULY 15, 2008

The scene in Microsoft’s branch offices in downtown San Francisco resembled freshman orientation on a recent weeknight. People wandered the halls trying to find the classrooms for their selected courses. But this wasn’t your typical college scene; it was Cloud Camp.

HPC Spinoffs: HPC features trickle down to regular IT

LINUXWORLD.COM, JULY 9, 2008

Today, many more organizations are able to take advantage of High Performance Computing, due to the ready availability of inexpensive compute clusters powered by Linux running on off-the-shelf x86 hardware, as opposed to the proprietary hardware and software of yesterday’s supercomputers.