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

Announcing the Platform as a Service Daily

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk is more than just a new product from Amazon.com. It’s validation that raw IaaS is too complex for the average development shop and that PaaS is the inevitable web app model for the future.

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.

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.

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.”

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 [...]