The Troposphere:

December, 2008

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December 8, 2008  3:34 PM

Gartner VP predicts thousands of clouds



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Amazon EC2, cloud computing, Hyper-V, Microsoft Azure, VMware, Xen

Gartner’s Vice President and distinguished analyst Tom Bittman spoke with us about the IT industry evolution led by virtualization and cloud computing, and why big...

December 4, 2008  3:17 PM

Should Amazon EC2 follow Moore’s Law?



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Amazon EC2, cloud computing, DataCenter

According to the economical side of Moore's Law, processing power gets cheaper every year due to vendors being able to pack more of it in the same amount of space. Should cloud computing follow Moore's Law? Let's take a look at Amazon's computing offering in the cloud -- the Elastic Compute...


December 4, 2008  6:13 AM

Cloud computing, are you in or out?



Posted by: Rick Vanover
Amazon EC2, Cloud storage, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Storage, Virtualization

While the cloud is a new dimension of technology that IT managers and administrators will bake into the technology landscape, we have to make one fundamental decision: will the technology be in our out of our traditional data centers? This is a loaded question in regards to policy, security,...


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