Keeping the data flowing

These are my links for June 23rd: Architects of Amazon Web Services Launch Nimbula, Promise an OS for the Cloud – "Nimbula aims to bridge the gap between private and public clouds." An interesting solution for "cloud bursting" (i.e. temporarily using the cloud when your internal capacity is exceeded). Performance Anxiety: What the Intuit Problem [...]

These are my links for June 8th: Cloud Computing Will Cause Three IT Revolutions – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership – Two interesting points: 1) the speed of provisioning infrastructure in the cloud will be faster than many organizations can absorb, and 2) IT operations will become more of a resource planning role.

These are my links for June 2nd: Frontend SPOF for Web Performance – Provides some examples of how you code your webpage drastically impacts how fast your page loads. Outsourcing: China vs. India – Two main takeaways: make sure you are comparing like for like; and consider all the costs.