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The Wall Street Journal just published an article trying to define cloud computing. Although hardly anyone can be faulted for not understanding the cloud (ahem) of jargon spewing from every marketing department of every IT department scrambling to be relevant without actually innovating, I wanted to help by offering a sort of proof by contradiction.
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Amazon offers 99.95% SLA
Amazon announced today that it was exiting beta and offering a 99.95% SLA within a region. Hopefully this is going to put some cloud naysayers to rest, at least on the reliability front. Amazon is offering accountability in the form of service credits if it violates the SLA. Now this may not [...]
The term Cloud Computing is on the rise according to google trends. But what does it all mean? Just like “Web 2.0″ it’s an overloaded phrase with tons of connotations and many attempts at definition. While perusing a cloud blog by James Urquhart, I was inspired to try to define the term myself. So here’s [...]
My RailsConf slides on virtualization with Elastic Server On-Demand have been featured on the slideshare homepage! Over two hundred views so far. Great to see people are really interested in this stuff. I’ve embedded the presentation in this blog post:
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I will be doing a BoF session on virtualization and Elastic Server On-Demand at RailsConf on Saturday. If you have some stories to share about how you’re using virtualization for your projects, please come on by and contribute! If you’d like to be mentioned in the intro presentation please send me a couple lines on [...]
It’s an exciting day for us here at CohesiveFT as Infoworld named us a Top 10 startup for 2008! It’s nice to be recognized for the hard work we continue to put in to make Elastic Server On Demand a highly valuable service. We’ve recently launched a customer forum at GetSatisfaction so please come and [...]
Take a peek over at the CohesiveFT Elastic Server blog for a cool riff on the history and future of virtualized computing.
…you can attain true server agility because you are doing “Zero to Virtual”; building from component libraries straight to virtual servers in any VM format, with no initial physical footprint. The big win [...]
“We at CFT are proud to announce the latest refresh of our Elastic Server On-Demand service.
Elastic Servers(tm) are application stacks which can be dynamically constructed from component libraries and delivered in many virtualization-ready formats (VMware, Xen, Parallels). We call them “elastic” because it is just the amount of components you want for a task, [...]
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