It is strange to be writing this post right after the biggest outage in the cloud computing history. Outage or not, I feel the march to the cloud is all but unstoppable. Not only is this outage not going to deter more people to come to the cloud, it will, in my humble opinion, accelerate cloud computing momentum. Even though the outage was confined to a single region of the Amazon EC2 cloud, it was, and still is, at the top of the news and the world at large can finally understand just how much workload has already moved to [...]
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If you are at all interested in cloud computing you would have by now no doubt heard that this has been a dark day in the world of Cloud Computing today. Something has gone terribly wrong in the networking in the Amazon US-East-1 region. That caused storage subsystems to go on the fritz and the rest as they say is history. Some of the very prominent web properties have been down and the volume of chatter on the subject has been deafening. I had to turn the sound on my TweetDeck off a I could no longer stand to hear [...]
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Raising the bar for enterprise IT
There is no doubt that cloud computing has put a lot of pressure on IT organizations to find a way to reduce costs and, more important, bring agility to business processes. Line of business users are increasingly bringing expectations from their consumer experiences to the front door of IT. The thinking is that if it takes a few minutes to get a Gmail account and it is free, why does it take weeks to get an Exchange account on a corporate email system? In an organization of any size, it takes weeks if not [...]
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My all time most read posts are about comparing DB2 Express-C and Oracle XE. Even though the first comparison was done way back in June 2008 this blog still gets hits on it every day. Oracle and DB2 – An Architectural Comparison. As popular as they are, these comparisons do not compare the technical architecture of DB2 and Oracle. So, I am hoping that this upcoming webcast will satisfy the need for deep technical comparison. This will not be a marketing pitch of why DB2 is better than Oracle; just a side-by-side technical look at the architecture. If you are at all interested in the subject, I recommend that you register for this free webinar as the space is filling up very fast. [...]
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Last week I blogged about the early experience program for the next version of DB2 that lets people experience the next version of IBM DB2 database without having to find a server, install and patch operating system or even install DB2. This is possible through the magic of Cloud Computing. In this post I talked about how we greatly improved the overall experience of the program for participants in Europe and Asia. One of the great advantages of running things in the cloud is that you get to decide where you want to place your server. For example, you can decide that [...]
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