SOA Talk:

Virtualization


August 23, 2010  4:15 PM

Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1: More patterns for Azure



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
.NET, Cloud Services

This week Microsoft released Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 to MSDN subscribers. It supports deployment on a Windows desktop, in Silverlight in a browser or as a cloud-based application running Azure.  This...

August 16, 2010  9:18 PM

Evans cloud computing survey says developers see Google for the public, IBM for the private side



Posted by: JDenman
Cloud Services

By Kathleen Kriz It is still in the early going but evidence suggests developers see Google as the leader in Public Cloud Computing, and IBM as the leader in Private Cloud Computing, at least according to an Evans Data Corporation study of developer perceptions. In their Cloud Development Survey...


August 11, 2010  6:53 PM

John deVadoss talks about “SOA with .NET & Windows Azure” and related topics



Posted by: JDenman
Cloud Services, Microsoft

These days, the SOA community is increasingly able to agree on basic SOA terms and concepts, said John deVadoss, the leader of the Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft, and a co-author of SOA with .NET & Windows Azure: Realizing Service-Orientation, a recent addition to Thomas...


July 28, 2010  7:14 PM

Google’s Rob Pike at OSCON on Go language, more



Posted by: ITKE
Add new tag, Cloud Services, Java

By Kathleen Kriz New languages, cloud computing and hands-on Android development demonstrations were all part of the fare last week at the OSCON conference in Portland, Ore. Of note,


April 27, 2010  6:43 PM

SOA and the Web of Semantics



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Cloud Services, SOA

Technology winds blow oddly. The technology itself is always moving ahead at one rate and the terms we use to describe technology change at another. Terms can be important step rungs for technology vendor and implementer alike, but the terms are somewhat arbitrary. Sometimes the terms are...


April 13, 2010  5:15 PM

Say it ain’t NoSQL – say it is Not Only SQL (we speak with Nati Shalom)



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Cloud Services, data architecture

A part of many discussions of massively-scaled cloud computing architecture these days is the notion of “NoSQL.” That is because the trustworthy and ubiquitous SQL data base seems to be playing a less-than-central role in big cloud apps built around Gooble’s Big Table, Facebook’s Cassandra...


April 9, 2010  5:38 PM

VMware pushes Spring Java toward cloud virtualization with tc Server 2.0



Posted by: RobBarry
spring framework, Virtualization

It seems like you can't throw a stone in an enterprise IT shop without hitting an Apache Tomcat server these days. Jeffrey Hammond at Forrester Research recently told me around 30% of developers use Tomcat based on findings from two surveys. In another


April 8, 2010  7:30 PM

Olofson on ODBs



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Cloud Services, data architecture

There are a variety of caching techniques to be considered in grid, cloud and other types of distributed computing architecture for analytics.  Among these, the object data base can show some advantages said Carl W. Olofson, Research Vice President, IDC. In fact, some of the early object data base...


March 24, 2010  5:16 PM

Will ‘cloud’ mark JVM ascent over Java (the language)?



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
cloud computing, Java

Some have projected Java to be a likely language of the cloud. The thing is, within the Java community, there seems to be a vocal group that sees the Java Virtual Machine – rather than the Java language -  as the main contributor to future cloud architecture.


March 19, 2010  7:13 PM

Java Symposium keynote video – Red Hat’s Bob McWhirter on cloud in application delivery



Posted by: RobBarry
cloud computing

Red Hat's chief architect of cloud computing, Bob McWhirter said the cloud is the next logical step for application delivery in his keynote on cloud computing at TheServerSide Java Symposium. Arguing about what applications are "cloud worthy" misses the point, he said. "Ultimately the cloud is a...