If you are into cloud app development and will be anywhere near San Francisco on December 6, 2010, you don’t want to miss a radically new, and FREE, cloud-agnostic event that is sure to have something for everyone: Cloudstock.

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).

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 [...]