App Engine: Google’s Cloud-Computing Weapon

App Engine debuted in May 2008 as a coding platform geared toward smaller Web startups building applications. It only supported the Python programming language, was free, and didn’t allow users to consume of a lot of resources without permission. Google started charging developers to use App Engine three months ago, and earlier this month added to it support for Java, a programming language popular in the corporate world.

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Google Enterprise Blog – Cloud Computing

Recently, McKinsey & Company published a study on cloud computing as part of a symposium for The Uptime Institute, an organization dedicated to supporting the enterprise data center industry. We share McKinsey’s interest in helping the IT industry better understand cloud computing, so we’d like to join the conversation Appirio and others have started about the role of cloud computing for large enterprises.

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Expert to Expert: Amitabh Srivastava – Windows Azure and Cloud Computing

You first learned about Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform at PDC08. Remember that? Yeah. It’s been a while since we first unveiled our cloud computing offering. Now that the hysteria has died down, we thought it wise to go learn the details behind and inside Azure. Who better for this next iteration of Expert of Expert than Windows Azure VP Amitabh Srivastava? Exactly.
Watch the clip on Microsoft’s Channel 9

Why ‘Private Cloud’ Computing Is Real — And Worth Considering

To some, it’s the same data center strategy by a trendier name. Don’t believe them.
Be ready for a debate as you discuss this new way of doing things. Just the term “private cloud” irks some computer industry veterans, who argue that cloud computing by definition is something that happens outside of your data center, or that the technologies involved in private clouds have been around for years, or both.
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Private Clouds a Good First Step to Cloud Computing

Deploying a private cloud network is a good way for enterprises to ease into cloud computing before deploying applications on the infrastructures of companies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft, IT professionals said at a conference in New York on Monday.
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100 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem

In periods of economic uncertainty IT managers turn to look at what other options might enable them to continue to meet end-user and business demands for IT services. What new cloud technologies and techniques are coming over the horizon? Which vendors are driving the most Enterprise-relevant innovation?
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Early Experiments in Cloud Computing

You know there’s substance behind a technology buzzword when companies such as the Nasdaq OMX stock exchange and the New York Times publishing company use it for real production efforts. Cloud computing is the latest buzzword that vendors are using to spruce up the usual sales spiel, and the fever pitch is enough to make you think, “Dot-com boom, here we go again.” While the skepticism is warranted, something very real is happening, and IT needs to pay attention.
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Cloud Computing and the Return of the Platform Wars

Sun’s announcement last week that its new Cloud Compute Service would be API compatible at a storage level with Amazon’s popular S3 service is probably the first real evidence of the coming platform war in the cloud computing space. It’s a war that’s likely to be significant and protracted given the number of players that are lining up for a shot at what’s sizing up to be the next big development in the evolution of computing.
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The Five Pillars of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is getting tons of press these days. Everyone has a different perspective and understanding of the technology, and there are myriad variations on the definition of the cloud- William Fellows and John Barr at the 451 Group define cloud computing as the intersection of grid, virtualization, SaaS, and utility computing models. James Staten of Forrester Research describes it as a pool of abstracted, highly scalable, and managed compute infrastructure capable of hosting end-customer applications and billed by consumption. Let’s take it a step further and examine the core principles, or pillars, that uniquely define cloud computing.
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Federal Government Up in the Air About Cloud Computing, Survey Finds

A hot topic in the private sector, cloud computing was being discussed everywhere at FOSE 2009 – in vendor booths and announcements, in conference sessions and in the CloudCamp Federal unconference. While about 42% of survey respondents said cloud computing was important, 19% said it wasn’t and an additional 40% of respondents simply did not know or could not answer. Unsurprisingly, less than 11 percent say they are using cloud computing today with only an additional 11 percent having any plans in the next year to adopt.
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