Cloud Computing

Software as a Service (SaaS), Software + Services, Grid Computing...

Useful Articles

What is cloud computing? (WinExtra, May 08) - Describing what it is and who's doing it
IBM and the resurrection of the mainframe (Dan Farber, Apr 08) - similarities to cloud computing
Live Mesh announcements on Techmeme (23 Apr 08)
Behind the scenes of Google scalability (Blog post, Apr 08)
Reach for the sky through the compute clouds (ReadWriteWeb, Feb 08) - scalability issues with the relational database
- Related: Time to rewrite DBMS, says Ingres Founder (Reg Developer, Feb 08)
- Related: MapReduce: A major step backwards (The Database Column, Jan 08)
Cloud Computing: What out IT, it's raining jargon (CIO Mag, Jan 08)
XMPP - from one-way polling to presence/two-way comms (Jive blog post, Jan 08)

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