June 17, 2010 9:22 PM
Profile: CarlBrooks
Amazon’s early efforts at cloud computing? Partly accidental

Former 'Master of Disaster' at Amazon Jesse Robbins has a couple of fun tidbits to share about the birth of Amazon EC2. He said the reason it succeeded as an idea in Amazon's giant retail machine was partly due to his inter-territorial corporate grumpiness and partly due to homesickness--not...
June 4, 2010 12:57 AM
Profile: CarlBrooks
VMware wants the whole private cloud software stack- and it may get it

Details of VMware's Project Redwood have been unearthed, and it’s a telling look at where VMware sees itself in the new era of cloud computing: in charge of everything. While Redwood is...