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Self-Managing distributed applications

By dlambert ⋅ October 2, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

I recently read about the SELFMAN project on ReadWriteWeb (Coming Soon: Internet Apps that Heal Themselves).  This project, started in 2006, aims to standardize and package the infrastructure needed to manage large-scale distributed applications.  So far, they’ve produced some sample / reference applications using components written in Java.  I don’t know if the bits themselves [...]

“Follow the moon” architecture

By dlambert ⋅ September 24, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

Cloud Computing has gained a lot of momentum this year.  We’re hearing about more new platforms all the time, and all the big players are working hard to carve out a chunk of this space.  Cloud computing originally promised us unlimited scalability at a lower cost than we could achieve ourselves, but I’m starting to [...]

Revenge of the Private Cloud

By dlambert ⋅ July 15, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

Back in February, amidst the news about Microsoft‘s new Azure platform, I asked why the concept of Private Clouds seemed to be either dismissed or ignored as a viable Enterprise strategy (see also “PDC Reactions” and “Could Azure be self-hosted?“). Yesterday, I learned that there’s hope, after all. I happened to be in the office [...]

Is your network ready for cloud computing?

By dlambert ⋅ January 16, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

One of the most impactful things I saw at CodeMash wasn’t on the schedule.  I’d dropped in to check out Jeff Blankenburg‘s presentation on Azure & Windows Live Mesh, but it was clear that the demo gods weren’t about to smile on Jeff that day. The CodeMashers had sucked up the hotel’s WiFi bandwidth like [...]

Could Azure be self-hosted?

By dlambert ⋅ November 3, 2008 ⋅ View Comments

In response to my Azure reaction, James Bender pointed out that Azure, in its current form, really wouldn’t make sense as a self-hosted platform.  Rather than burying this point in a comment, I’m going to talk about it here, because this positioning (by Microsoft) is pivotal, and it’s crucial for Microsoft‘s future. First, I think [...]

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