I would like to issue a hearty congratulations to the App Engine team on their recent announcements of quota and dashboard improvements.  We work with many, many software teams, and out of them all, the App Engine team stands out as a bunch of folks excited about making web application development easier, and pushing the [...]

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 [...]

Dear valued and loyal HyperLINKS reader, That day we thought would never come, is upon us. The day when we decide to move from daily HyperLINKS posts, to weekly HyperLINKS posts. Please join us in solemn reverence and remembrance. Now enjoy this, your final daily dose of HyperLINKS. Business execs vs. IT professionals…how do they [...]

Today’s HyperLINKS…Important things to remember and be aware of with the cloud More security issues afloat in the cloud Margaret Lewis predicts that there will be complications in the future of virtualization Gordon Haff reminds us not to forget latency when it comes to cloud computing

Thursday’s HyperLINKS bring new developments in the cloud The cloud keeps expanding…Amazon’s EBC reveals new possibilities for the cloud VMware feature continues to float under the radar

CloudStatus Google App Engine is released…let the coverage roll in! Om Malik is the first to post on the CloudStatus announcement! Gartner releases its annual spending report…the forecast looks “cloudy” Though VMware and Microsoft are direct competitors, for the time being they are putting their qualms aside in the name of good business

Tuesday’s HyperLINKS…Virtualization liscensing about to go underway Microsoft making some major changes to its’ liscensing program Some interesting insight to cloud computing in the Seattle P-I…with a mention of Hyperic’s involvement Get ready…the Xen Community is about to release it’s next feature for review

Monday’s HyperLINKS…Open Source receives some well-deserved recognition No “cloud computing” for Dell…case closed Business Week recognizes open source at Red Hat convention Dan Woods takes a trip down the open source memory lane

Almost time for the weekend, but not without HyperLINKS! Dana Blankenhorn names virtualization “the secret sauce of the cloud” and Firefox as the threat to open source Gmail users aren’t catching a break with another outage complication Sarah Perez raises the question…is there more security with traditional computing?

In today’s LINKS…Open Source networks officially under protection It’s official…court ruling states that open source will be protected under copyright law Dave Rosenberg creates two buckets of the cloud to help place your enterprise into Server outages cause a distrust in the cloud

Hump Day HyperLINKS…Private clouds and Hype Cycles abound Fidelity Investments is aiming to virtualize its server Gartner releases the Hype Cycle, outlining important technology trends to pay attention to John Foley examines the private cloud

Another day is about to come to an end, but not without HyperLINKS! Jeff Vance writes about the future of VMWare The Gmail outage continues to be reported on with Larry Dignan noting the instability of web services and clouds John Suit examines the question, “Is Virtualization the “Cloud” of the Enterprise?”

Monday’s HyperLINKS…A LinuxWorld recap, while cloud computing is creating another storm “Private clouds“….the newest branch of cloud computing for IT departments Gartner analysts link cloud computing with the hype cycle Derrick Harris gives his LinuxWorld wrap up

Thursday’s topics…Dell case lingers on, Gmail shines a bad light on the cloud Google outage causes frustration with the Cloud US Patent Office decides to drag Dell’s case back under examination School’s in session for cloud computing

Mid-Week HyperLINKS…The Cloud is still too shady for some A Newsweek article points out that there are plenty of storms within the Cloud Dell faces a setback in the case of patenting “cloud computing” IBM research finds that virtualization is helping to revive Linux, putting it into the high end status

Tuesday’s HyperLINKS…LinuxWorld coverage rolling in, Cloud Computing discussion continues IBM has full confidence in the cloud, investing $360 million into the service Mike Gunderloy questions the boundaries of open source A plethora of companies express growing interest on the cloud

Happy Monday! Today marks the first day of LinuxWorld and we will be watching the show closely this week to bring you its headlines. Now without further ado, here are today’s HyperLINKS: Dan Kusnetzky prepares for future posts from LinuxWorld and outlines the meaning of virtualization Cloud Computing is making waves in the world…Merrill Lynch [...]

Your favorite open source based monitoring and management suite just got sweeter. After working with the Xensource/Citrix team for two years, Hyperic HQ now supports Citrix Xen Server, giving customers a 360 degree view into their Xen-frastructure. “With the rapid proliferation of virtualized infrastructure, effectively managing virtual resources is critical to successfully realizing consolidation benefits [...]

Friday the first…Everyone, everywhere trying to claim the cloud Dell puts dibs on “cloud computing” as trademark Who will dominate the cloud? Allan Leinwand thinks the answer is a decade away Mike Gunderloy writes that architecture will hold precedence over licensing laws with open source and the cloud…Tim O’Reilly provides input with his own essay

The end of July brings new possibilities of an open source cloud The industry is still talking about the Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo announcement. InfoWorld’s Bill Snyder adds his take to the news 451 Group releases their CAOS Theory, reporting the increase of community Linux distributions Here it comes! The virtual sprawl is hitting Wall [...]

Mid-week HyperLINKS bring cloud coverage and virtualization to the surface The Yankee Group foresees virtualization as the solution for corporate enterprises Matthew Aslett raises a good question for the future…who will be the first to establish an open source cloud? More and more companies drifting into the cloud…eBay is in the works of creating a [...]

Lots of moving and shaking today and we are not just talking about the earthquake in Southern California. Here are today’s HyperLINKS: HP, Intel and Yahoo are partnering with governments and academic institutions to create an open source cloud computing test bed with six distributed centers Gunjan Trivedi offers a great analysis of cloud computing [...]

In today’s HyperLINKS…Amazon gets to the bottom of S3 outage Michael Krigsman of ZDNet writes on Amazon’s analysis of their service failure, calling their post-mortem “mature” A Goldman Sachs survey of CIOs indicates the likelihood of significant decreases in IT jobs, both with in-house and contract staff Forbes’ Bob Worrall discusses the need for more [...]