“I am convinced that there are few goals more essential in the communications landscape than preserving and maintaining an open and robust Internet. I also know that achieving this goal will take an approach that is smart about technology, smart about markets, smart about law and policy, and smart about the lessons of history.” — FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski at The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, September 21, 2009
On Monday, September 21, 2009, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski outlined proposed net neutrality rules to preserve the openness of the Internet.
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A great feature of cloud computing is elasticity. If your application needs more horsepower, a compute cloud can dynamically assign more resources. When the usage spike ends, the resources can be removed. However, the ability to scale doesn’t guarantee your application will perform satisfactorily for the additional load. This could be due to a variety of issues, some might be cloud related, such as the additional overhead of running in a virtual machine, but more likely, the application wasn’t built (architected, designed) for scale. A database bound application won’t be magically fixed by adding more computing power.
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David Berlind is our Evening in the Cloud host. David says the discussion shouldn’t be about cloud computing definition, it should be about cloud computing benefits. The benefits will lead to the ‘right’ definition. Panel Format, each panelist has 8 minutes to “pitch us” as though they were visiting our organization. more >>
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Jake Sorofman, rPath, James Duncan, Joyent and Chet Kapoor, Sonoa Systems chat with Alistair Croll on the futures of cloud. These companies offer software, products that are adjacent to, or run on, the cloud. They are not cloud operators.
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Which cloud you go to, depends on what you are moving. Move machines, code, processes or content. This is the clearest way to determine what type of cloud an operator is offering, ask them “what do I move to you – machines, code, processes or content”.
Alistair is qualifying “move”, in that some code might need to tweaked for the features/functions/services of the cloud, or perhaps re-written in the case of tightly coupled legacy code.
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