The universal popularity of cloud services appears to be rising with an increasing number of supply chain software businesses choosing to adopt cloud-based applications. Given the cloud service risks and rewards associated with cloud based systems, what...

Last week I wrote a bit about monitoring applications that are hosted in the cloud.  This week I am taking it a step further and discussing a few commonly used methods of analyzing the results. Essentially, there...

An official Oracle document, available originally at http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/cloud-hosting-delivery-policies-1881437.pdf  (the document seems to have been removed now), laid down the terms of service and contractual obligations for customers of its cloud services. Based on what the blog world is...

Australian games producer Halfbrick realized the power of the cloud when its game “Fruit Ninja Frenzy” became unexpectedly popular. When the game was promoted on Facebook, the numbers of registered players suddenly shot up from several hundred...

While many companies are still working out their recoveries from the  havoc caused by Superstorm Sandy, many companies that have faced cloud outages before and have devised good standard operating procedures to handle cloud outages are reasonably...

When we think about cloud computing, we think of the data center as one homogeneous collection of servers and CPUs that are humming away smoothly to keep the web sites of the world going. The truth is...

As Hurricane Sandy approached the East coast, data centers all over the area from Boston to Florida and elsewhere went into preparation mode to handle any eventuality. While the results of how well they withstood the hurricane...

If you are a heavy user of cloud computing and rent a large number of servers at a data center, it will help your billing if you pay attention to the CPUs that you are renting. Analysis...