by Lydia Leong | March 6, 2009 | 3 Comments
Gartner clients might be interested in my just-published piece of research, which is a TCO toolkit for comparing the cost of internal and cloud infrastructure. A not-new link, but which I nonetheless want to draw people’s attention to as much as possible: Yahoo’s best practices for speeding up your web site is a superb list [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: appdev, CDN, Cloud, Gartner, research
by Lydia Leong | February 16, 2009 | 4 Comments
James Governor’s thoughtful blog post on finding the REST of cloud prompted me to think about developer-driven versus sysadmin-driven adoption of cloud. This is a fulcrum that’s separate from GUI vs. CLI vs. API tug-of-war, which in many ways is a sysadmin-driven debate. The immediacy of cloud provisioning has instinctive appeal to developers who just [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: appdev, Cloud
by Lydia Leong | February 4, 2009 | 2 Comments
Gartner recently put out a press release titled “Gartner Says Cloud Application Infrastructure Technologies Need Seven Years to Mature“, based on a report from my colleague Mark Driver. That’s gotten a bunch of pickup in the press and in the blogosphere. I’ve read a lot of people commenting about how the timeline given seems surprisingly [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: appdev, Cloud, Gartner, research
by Lydia Leong | January 15, 2009 | Comments Off
In this year of super-tight IT budgets and focus on stretching what you’ve got rather than replacing it with something new, Micro Focus is bringing COBOL to the cloud. Most vendor “support for EC2″ announcements are nothing more than hype. Amazon’s EC2 is a Xen-virtualized environment. It supports the operating systems that run in that [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, appdev, Cloud
by Lydia Leong | December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
Excerpt: Click here to read the original. Google announced something very interesting yesterday: their Native Client project. The short form of what this does: You can develop part or all of your application client in a language that compiles down to native code (for instance, C or C++, compiled to x86 assembly), then let the [...]
Category: Applications Tags: appdev, excerpt, Google, security
by Lydia Leong | October 17, 2008 | 2 Comments
I’ve been thinking about the way that the economics of cloud computing infrastructure will impact the way people write applications. Most of the cloud infrastructure providers out there offer virtual servers as a slice of some larger, physical server; Amazon EC2, GoGrid, Joyent, Terremark Enterprise Cloud, etc. all follow this model. This is in contrast [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: appdev, Cloud
