Paul McDonald and the App Engine Team spent some time gathering some video case studies of developers who have created scalable web applications on Google’s App Engine. Included are Dave Westwood of BuddyPoke, Charles Ying from PixVerse, and of course – Hyperic’s own Jon Travis on CloudStatus:

IDC confirmed my amateur predictions that the current economic turmoil will indeed be very good for those looking to the cloud. Both from a user perspective, as well as a vendor perspective. In fact, IDC’s Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst, is predicting adoption will accelerate due to market pressures in a recent [...]

The scariest part of today’s economic turmoil is how preventable it was. I am not talking about additional supervision of an uncontrolled finance sector. While the sub-prime market was risky and obviously short-sighted, the overall laws of supply and demand eventually punish those who take unnecessary risks. What is more irresponsible and scary is the [...]

Cloud Computing has been a much used and misunderstood term. You know its become mainstream when it attracts pundits of the caliber of Larry Ellison, who last week confessed his own confusion during an anti-cloud computing rant: Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s [...]