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What I would want a “cloud” to do for me: a functional view
I was on a panel at Enterprise 2.0 yesterday about “Cloud Computing” providers and wanted to take the entire definite of “what is cloud computing?” from a different perspective. As a consumer, I fundamentally want the entire technology stack for an application to Just work Just scale Just tell me everything Just works means that…
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Cloud Computing is actually Transparent Computing: there’s shouldn’t be anything cloudy about it
A little over a year ago Joyent was identified in a Forrester report as one of ten “Cloud Computing” companies to watch. The report was really the beginning of “Cloud Computing” being applied to those of us doing infrastructure and I think marks the point in time when the term really began to appear in…
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Part 3, On Joyent and Accelerators as Cloud Computing “Primitives”
In the previous part of this series we ended by talking about 6 “simple” utilities that software uses on “servers”. They were 1) CPU space 2) Memory space 3) Disc space 4) Memory bus IO 5) Disc IO 6) Network IO Along with their natural minimums (zero) and maximums. Providing compute units that do these…
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Part 2, On Joyent and Cloud Computing “Primitives”
In the first part of this series I made a key list of some of the underlying ideas at Joyent, that we believe that a company or even a small development team should be able to: Participate in a multi-tenant service Have your own instantiations of this service Install (and “buy”) the software to run…
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On Joyent and “Cloud Computing”, Part 1 of Many
With this post, I’m starting a series where we’re going to be much more explicit about what we’re thinking, what we’re doing, how we’re doing it and where we’re going. I’m not interested in any of it being thought of as impersonal “marketing material”, so I hope you’ll allow the occasional use of “I” and…
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A Loving Cloud
Yesterday several members of Joyent’s team attended Structure ’08. Jason Hoffman was on a panel that produced some interesting debate about whether clouds should aim to be open. The story was even picked up by the Wall Street Journal’s Don Clark in an article entitled Finding A Friendly Cloud Jason Hoffman, founder and chief technology…
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1 Billion Page Views a Month
Here’s a video detailing how LinkedIn built an application (Bumpersticker on the Facebook platform) using Rails (and C Ruby!) that serves up more than 1 billion page views a month. In my opinion, this ends the debate about whether Rails scales. Rails is a component, it is how the components are architected and delivered that…
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Amazon Web Services or Joyent Accelerators: Reprise
In the Fall of 2006, I wrote a piece On Grids, the Ambitions of Amazon and Joyent, and followed up with Why EC2 isn’t yet a platform for ‘normal’ web applications and the recognition that When you’re really pushing traffic, Amazon S3 is more expensive than a CDN. The point of these previous articles was…
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What is Cloud Computing?
We went to the Web 2.0 Expo and asked “What is Cloud Computing ?”. YouTube has a high definition version of What is Cloud Computing Check out what the following people had to say: Tim O’Reilly Dan Farber Matt Mullenweg Jay Cross Brian Solis Kevin Marks Rafe Needleman Steve Gillmor Jeremy Tanner Maggie Fox Tom…
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Rod Boothby Talks Cloud Computing at Web 2.0 Expo
Rod and I also held several interviews at the show – including Tim O’Reilly, Kevin Marks, Steve Gillmore, Dan Farber, and Rafe Needleman trying to get public opinion on ‘What is Cloud Computing’. We will be posting that video shortly as there is some good stuff in there. Disclosure: That handsome fella interviewing him happens…
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