cloud computing

For the past few years I’ve adopted an attitude and corresponding strategy when it comes to information systems which is basically this. Stuff happens. Computers break, drives crash, kids try to see if CD drives will cure play-dough, “somebody” causes virus infestations to occur. In short. Stuff happens. So I’ve […]

How to ROC recovery oriented computing

8 Sep, 2010 in general / it industry tagged cloud computing / recovery oriented computing / uptime by

Many might consider even the thought of running PHP inside of a Java Virtual Machine to be anathema. Others will wonder why bother (apart from the novelty). However running PHP in Java has one crucal benefit: it future-proofs your code. Quercus is a nifty utility that will allow you to run […]

Running PHP in Java

6 Oct, 2009 in software development tagged cloud computing / drupal / high availability / java / php / php in the cloud / wordpress by

A friend of mine recently asked me about cloud computing, what it was, and the ramifications of it on where we will see technology in the coming years. In his question he demonstrated a common confusion among most people between the difference between cloud computing and diskless computing. Both of these […]

Diskless computing vs distributed computing

3 Sep, 2009 in general / it industry tagged cloud computing / cluster computing / diskless computing / distributed computing / headless computing / network administration / parallel processing / [email protected] / terminal server by

Recently I’ve been studying several technologies that appear to form the core of cloud computing. In short, these are the technologies behind such technological marvels as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, NetFlix, Pixar, etc.1 Since each of these technologies by themselves is worthy of a new book, and since even those […]

Getting started with Hadoop and MapReduce

26 Aug, 2009 in it industry / software development tagged cloud computing / distributed computing / hadoop / java / mapreduce / pyhon / python by

I just finished reading a great article1 outlining the difference between Google and Microsoft’s approaches to cloud computing and how, as one company that switched from Virtual Earth to Google Maps put it, it all comes down to speed, speed, speed. I’m not very big into virtuilization/cloud computing just yet, but […]

Cloud computing 101

29 Jun, 2009 in general / it industry / software development tagged cloud computing / google vs bing / SaaS by