Tag: Cloud
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VMware buys DynamicOps to manage Xen, AWS
This just in, funny how this is just as much about VMware as my last post before the break… Deals of the term were undisclosed, although sources tell me the sale price was between $100 million and $150 million, and probably closer to the top half of that range. DynamicOps had raised $16.3 million in…
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Cloud Databases
A quick aggregation of Cloud Database (or DBaaS) related articles I found in my feed reader… Native Cloud Databases – Why Should You Care? NuoDB’s Jim Starkey is Creating a Brave New World by Rethinking Databases for the Cloud DBaaS vs. DaaS vs. Cloud Storage – What’s the difference? Postgres Plus® Cloud Server – for a…
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Comparing SQL Server with SQL Azure
A good one, if you want to make your application future proof, as MS is working hard to bring stand-alone SQL Server in line with SQL Azure for future releases, and therefore is giving up on some of the concepts available in SQL Server today: Comparing SQL Server with SQL Azure. SQL Azure Database is…
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A Vision of the Future Cloud Data Center
I’m cleaning up my blog and stumbled upon this draft… it’s still relevant, so here you go! Cloudbzz posts their Vision of the Future Cloud Data Center, which is well lined up with what I’m expecting to see.
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BYO Oracle RAC on EC2
Former work mate Jeremy Schneider is always the first to look at interesting ways to use Oracle RAC – now he’s considering to run a BYO Oracle RAC on Amazon EC2. I kinda defeats the purpose of cloud, but it’s still fun the play with. So what’s the right way to use the cloud for…
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Survey Shows Poor Performance of Cloud Applications Delays Cloud Adoption
Check this. Fun the read, quick to forget. Compuware Corporation today announced the findings of a cloud performance survey conducted by Vanson Bourne. The survey of 677 businesses in North America and Europe examined the impact application performance has on cloud application strategy and deployments. The survey reveals that the majority of organizations in both…
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Five Predictions for your Database in 2011
Xeround are making the future look like it’s just waiting for them in Five Predictions for your Database in 2011. But that’s not surprising, given that they’ve chosen to work on Cloud DB technology because they think it’s hot. These are the three good ones: Cloud DB goes far beyond just moving standard RDBMS into…
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Sharding With SQL Azure
Microsoft’s announcement of a new whitepaper about Sharding With SQL Azure reminded me that MS is very good about documenting everything around SQL Azure, and there are a lot of excellent whitepapers for all aspects of SQL Azure. Go read them if you’re interested!
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What’s in a Name
Following up on last week’s The meaning of NoSQL, there are quite a number of well thought out articles around CouchOne’s decision to not associate itself with NoSQL: Why Cloud Computing Sells and NoSQL Is Fading about the fact that Cloud was at the same position three years ago, but climbed to hill to success,…
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SQL In the Cloud
CloudBzz has a little intro to SQL In the Cloud, and with that they mean the public cloud. Good overview of existing offerings, and the suggestion that Cloud-based DBaaS options will continue to grow in importance and will eventually become the dominant model. Cloud vendors will have to invest in solutions that enable horizontal scaling…