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Craig Dickson10/04/11
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JavaOne 2011 Monday Keynote - The Cloud Angle

JavaOne 2011 got off to a bit of a shaky start this morning with there being a lack of seating in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton, leading to the escalators eventually being blocked by physically meek, yet surly, security guards and having people being...

Brian Gracely10/01/11
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The Cloudcast - Eps.21 - "The Network Stack of OpenStack"

he Cloudcast - Eps.21 - “The Network Stack of OpenStack” Date: September 23, 2011 Guests: James Urquhart (@jamesurquhart, Cloud Programs Manager - Office of Cloud CTO @ Cisco; “Wisdom of Clouds” blog on CNET)Rick Clark (@dendrobates, Principle...

Gordon Dickens09/29/11
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Buzzing the Cloud with CloudBees and Roo

Looking to try out CloudBees for your Spring application? Here is how you can get started quickly with CloudBees Run@Cloud platform. Get a CloudBees AccountConfigure a MySql instance on CloudBeesBuild a Spring Roo applicationsee script belowCreate a...

Maarten Balliauw09/28/11
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NuGet push... to Windows Azure

When looking at how people like to deploy their applications to a cloud environment, a large faction seems to prefer being able to use their source control system as a source for their production deployment. While interesting, I see a lot of problems...

Gordon Dickens09/27/11
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Rocket to the Cloud Fast with Roo

Want to build a Spring 3 application FAST and run it on the Cloud? It is incredibly easy to do with Spring Roo and CloudFoundry! This post on using Postgres on CloudFoundry helped me get started, however I tried using the 1.2.M1 with the CloudFoundry addon,...

Brian Gracely09/23/11
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The Cloudcast - Eps.19 - "Who Manages the Clouds?"

Date: September 16, 2011 Guest: George Reese (@georgereese, CTO/Founder of enStratus; http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/429 [blog]) The Cloudcast (.net) #19 - Who Manages the Clouds? (39:00) Download the MP3 Date: September 15, 2011 By: Aaron...

Alan Skorkin09/21/11
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When Developers Go To Great Length To Save Typing 4 Letters

Heroku is a great platform. Long before I joined and when I say long, I mean in startup terms (i.e. a few weeks before I joined :)) – the decision was made that CrowdHired would be hosted on Heroku. Shortly after I came on board, Heroku released their new...

Mitch Pronschinske09/21/11
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Video: Running Java Web Apps on the Cloud with Heroku

This 6 minute screencast by James Ward shows how to deploy Java web applications on the cloud using Heroku.

Ben Kepes09/17/11
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Is the Stack Dead?

For years now those of us who talk Cloud on a daily basis have used variations on a triangle shape as a way to articulate what Cloud actually is and how the various services that make up Cloud can be differentiated. Cross posted @ the Rackspace...

Mitch Pronschinske09/15/11
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Big News Coming Out of BUILD - Wayne Citrin Comments

"Flash is dead" is what some in the web developer community are saying after Microsoft's announcement that the all-web-standard "Metro" version of Windows 8 would not include plugins in its IE10 browser, which means no Flash.  What they...

Sean Hull09/15/11
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EC2 Interview – AWS Interview – Cloud Interview – 8 Questions

If you're looking for a cloud expert, specifically someone who knows Amazon Web Services and EC2, you'll want to have a battery of questions to ask them to assess their knowledge.  As with any technical interview focus on concepts and big picture.  As...

Jelle Victoor09/15/11
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Java EE6 in the Cloud – Getting started with Red Hat Openshift

For a while now I’ve been looking into ‘the cloud’. Looking into its features, what it can do, why we should switch to ‘ the cloud’, going to talks, talking to people like @maartenballiauw, who is a cloud specialist at RealDolmen. I’ve...

Brian Gracely09/13/11
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The Cloudcast - Eps.18 - "vCloud Director and vCloud Security" + Show Notes

The Cloudcast - Eps.18 (LIVE @ VMworld 2011) - “vCloud Director and vCloud Security” Date: August 29, 2011 Guests: Mike Foley (@mikefoley, RSA Virtualization Evangelist - VMware vExpert, http://www.yelof.com/) Chris Colotti (@ccolotti, Consulting...

Ben Kepes09/10/11
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CloudFoundry Inks Distribution and Deployment Deals

In my mind at least, PaaS is the area of cloud computing that is seriously exciting right now – while what can be achieved with a SaaS app has pretty much been tapped out, and infrastructure becomes more and more commoditized, it is PaaS where...

Brian Gracely09/09/11
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Thoughts from VMworld 2011

Prior to VMworld, I jotted down some thoughts on areas that I wanted to explore during the week. As I stated then, it feels like we're at a point where there is going to be significant change in many segments of the IT industry. It was quite a busy...

Chas Emerick09/09/11
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Recovering from and avoiding "cloud service" lock-in

We all love our shiny cloud services — until they break, die, or otherwise go away, turning all those unicorns and butterflies into what can only be described as a bark salad.  Case in point: sometime this week, I’ll be wasting time migrating data...

Ricky Ho09/08/11
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Scale Independently in the Cloud

Deploying a large scale system nowadays is quite different from before when data center is the only choice. A traditional deployment exercise typically involve a intensive performance modeling exercise to accurately predict the resource requirement for...

Ben Kepes09/06/11
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VMware Places a Bet on Enterprise Hybrid Cloud

At VMworld, VMware announced a number of things which together show they’re making a big bet on enterprises looking to hybrid cloud as their way of moving from a pure on-premise approach towards infrastructure. The announcements take the form of...

Scott Morrison 09/01/11
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Clouds On A Plane: VMware’s Micro Cloud Foundry Brings PaaS To My Laptop

On the eve of this week’s VMworld conference in Las Vegas, VMware announced that Micro Cloud Foundry is finally available for general distribution. This new offering is a completely self-contained instantiation of the company’s Cloud Foundry PaaS...

Ben Kepes08/31/11
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Active Directory Integration for Cloud SSO. Okta Latest to Integrate

Okta (previous coverage here) is today joining other cloud-based SSO offerings and releasing an edition designed to integrate single sign on into Active Directory to bridge the authentication gap between on-premise and cloud software. The move is a...

Felipe Oliveira08/30/11
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Step-by-Step for a Simple Twitter with Play Framework, AJAX, CRUD and Heroku

On August 31st, 2011: I will have the great honor to present our beloved Play Framework at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference here in San Francisco, CA. If you are attending, please feel free to check it out or just stop by to say hello. Thank you Zenexity...

Brian Gracely08/29/11
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Are there No Rules anymore, or New Rules everywhere?

As I prepared to fly to Las Vegas for VMworld, I started thinking about which technologies I wanted to learn about, which start-ups I wanted to investigate and which strategic angles I needed to dig into more. As I started thinking about various...

Chris Keene08/27/11
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Cloud Foundry is the LAMP Stack of Cloud Computing

Just as the LAMP stack provided a core foundation next gen for web applications, Cloud Foundry is providing a core foundation for next gen cloud platforms. Cloud Foundry announced today that two new startups are building their clouds based on Cloud...