Cloud computing industry pundits routinely point to security, privacy, and trust as a key issues that will determine the rate of adoption for cloud computing, especially for enterprise applications. I recently wrote a white paper for the folks over at Salesforce.com and was extremely impressed at how focused and dedicated their entire staff is with respect to security and privacy controls for the Force.com cloud application platform.

Anyone who is considering the deployment of enterprise applications in the cloud should definately read this paper to build a strong understanding of what security and privacy features a mature cloud platform should include.

Jason Lochhead of Terremark (CTO of Cloud Computing) and Tom Mornini of Engine Yard were co-presentors of this session. The session explained how and why Ruby on Rails (RoR) Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings such as Engine Yard are becoming formidable competition to perhaps more well-known PaaS options such as Force.com, Google App Engine, and Microsoft Azure.

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The opening keynote for CloudExpo 2010 NYC was delivered by Richard Sarwal and Hasan Rizvi, SVPs of Product Development for Oracle Corporation. The title of the presentation was “The Coming of Age of Enerprise IT and Cloud Computing.” Read the rest of this entry »

Monday through Wednesday, April 19-21, I’m at CloudExpo 2010 in New York City. I’ll be posting my thoughts of the conference in general and particular sessions as time permits. First, let’s start with my overall impressions upon arriving … Read the rest of this entry »

I’ll be heading up to NYC for CloudExpo 2010. Looks like there will be a lot of interesting things to take in. Readers of The Cloud View blog can sign up for a significantly discounted rate of $300 … Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve written in the past that change is something to embrace, not fear. Reaction to change is a particularly interesting thing to consider with cloud computing because it has the potential to disrupt the status quo and modify business models in countless industries from software, entertainment, energy (smart grid), and many more. Read the rest of this entry »

When we run across something interesting to read about cloud computing, something that we think will stand the test of time, we typically just update CloudLinks. But every so often, we find gems that are worth announcing in our blog. Found one today!

Rick Cattell recently published a nice summary of scalable datastores. If database scalability is the bottleneck in your cloud app, Rick’s summary will no doubt help you understand what solutions are currently available and emerging. Nice job Rick!

Cloud computing is all the rage (and hype). In the past few weeks, many of our readers have sent us feedback asking for some basic information about cloud computing for newbies. We aim to please. So this post familiarizes you with some basic terms and concepts surrounding cloud computing, including cloud models such as public, private, and hybrid clouds, as well as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS).
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I recently contributed to a short article over at CIO titled 5 Things You Need to Know about Platform as a Service. The article quotes yours truly as stating that scalability is not guaranteed when you move to the cloud. The article quotes me as saying “That’s one of the great myths—that as soon as you go to the cloud, you scale.” Because all of my thoughts were not included in this article, I’ll expand on them here. Read the rest of this entry »