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Having all this data at hand has allowed us to create better algorithms for waiting for AWS resources. For example, when we create an instance, we know there isn’t any point in che…

Given current EC2 pricing, deploying your application tier directly to EC2 VMs is the wrong architecture for many use cases. Using a Linux Container isolated and application centri…

I'm not an evangelist, but I am a member of the Cloud Foundry team, and responsible for partner development and ecosystem. I think you are creating a straw man question as the over…

Solomon, wait, just 2 days ago you said CF was throw away code and not on your radar? Care to explain your pivot to 'intriguing'? https://twitter.com/solomonstre/status/20989517019…

Don't be so sure this started as a PR pitch...Cade has been covering Cloud Foundry and Appfog since they adopted Cloud Foundry, see all of his articles about it over at the Registe…

Yes it is, and we aren't going away any time soon. :) We'll more than be here in five years.

Congrats to Lucas on a bold move to shake up the PaaS start-up space.

If you are in the bay area on the 13th the Cloud Foundry team is hosting its first meetup. Come ask the tough questions to engineering: http://www.meetup.com/cloudcomputing/events/…

The themes this week, however, were not jitter--they are the cutting edge of the "cloud" evolution. The cutting edge of cloud has shifted from an "if" to a how, and the minds who s…

A recent take on the ceding of economic control to more and more actors within the economy as enabled by cloud computing.

I think the point I'm really trying to make is that you can't just load a program into the cloud. The cloud is more like a software based mainframe if anything, but it requires a w…

Its easier to trust someone with your data, if they have triple redundancy built into their architecture. S3 has that built in; a single MS SAN box does not. That's why its an impo…

Cloud storage systems like S3 are often inferior in raw latency/response performance to a SAN which has VERY expensive adaptor silicon in it--but they are far superior on built in …

Its the Y combinator guys I was thinking of when I wrote this one. Sincerely curious for their thoughts.

With cloud computing rising to prominence as the underpinning of many modern web applications the amount of technology already 'assumed' in any new application design. This trend s…

Great line to pull out, and most relevant to the Y crowd for sure. What's interesting is that all of that hacker success has really made enterprises take notice and they are trying…

Let's not confuse science and NASA too much in the discussion here I'd say. Flying the existing shuttle back and forth to space for 3 decades is as much dog and pony as it is scien…

Godin wonder's why people pay for MBA's but he doesn't shrink from having his Stanford MBA on his resume. In a sea of ambition noise people use pedigree as a filter; perhaps having…