I just ran across a white paper from Oracle called Database as a Service: Reference Architecture – Overview. Here’s my review.

Most of my readers probably use Amazon.com more than I do. Until recently, I guess I just haven’t appreciated the advances they’ve made to help advance cloud computing in the consumer space. Here’s a summary of my recent experiences.

Please join me at IEEE Cloud 2011, July 4-9, Washington, DC. At the show, I’ll be giving two sessions that might be of interest. Cloud 2011 Summer School On Monday, July 4, at the “Cloud 2011 Summer School”, I’ll be presenting the “Cloud Development and Deployment” tutorial. Designed for developers by developers, this workshop mixes presentations with hands-on coding exercises that teach you how to build a cloud app using the world’s premier cloud platform, [...]

I was really looking forward to this panel discussion about #cloud #databases. Unfortunately, it was disappointing, for the most part. Read my review.

Attend this webinar for a sneak peek at Database.com, the world’s first enterprise cloud database service designed to support mobile and social apps built using any development language.

A two hour talk, all about multitenancy, from concepts to architecture.

What will be the long-term effects of Amazon’s “Big Outage”? Four things come to mind.

As cloud databases emerge, database legends Starkey and Stonebreaker still going strong.

This is a must-see, entertaining 13m presentation that quickly explains some things that all of us must understand about privacy in the cloud. More importantly, it implies that we, as parents, are not being responsible if we do not teach our children the long-term implications of posting embarrassing content to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and all other social networking sites. In particular, pay close attention to the discussion of Facebook’s privacy policy surrounding apps, and how [...]

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