Cloud Computing sounds fluffy, so what are the real-life benefits? And how can I start using the Cloud today, in my own projects? The first step: Getting more power at a low low cost. How can we use the cloud today, by moving parts of our application or environment to …
Chris Petersen gives an introduction to working with Amazon EC2, and discusses the advantages and disadvantage to hosting your Ruby applications there. http://sdruby.com/podcast/49
This session covers the problems encountered and available solutions when trying to scale data persistence systems to global scale. Data storage is a fundamental building block of computing systems, and the architectural computing styles collectively known as “cloud computing” bring new challenges in data persistence to developers and IT managers …
What new services might develop, and how will today’s services evolve? How well will cloud computing be likely to serve users, companies, investors, government, and the public over the longer run? Which social and policy problems will get worse due to cloud computing, and which will get better? Moderator: Andrea …
A workshop by Princeton University`s Center for Information Technology Policy brings together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of `computing in the cloud`. Computing in the cloud” is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information …
At the Web 2.0 Expo, we asked Tim O’Reilly, Dan Farber, Matt Mullenweg, Jay Cross, Brian Solis, Kevin Marks, Steve Gillmor, Jeremy Tanner, Maggie Fox, Tom McGovern, Sam Lawrence, Stowe Boyd, David Tebbutt, Dave McClure, Chris Carfi, Vamshi Krishna and Rod Boothby the same question: “What is Cloud Computing?”. Here’s …