Scale is the Common Abstraction of Cloud Computing
In my experience, for there to be widespread adoption and agreement over a concept, the semantics surrounding that concept must be unique and discrete. If the definition is too broad,…
Just Because the Cloud Offers Scalability, Doesn’t Mean That You Automatically Inherit It
In reading Vivek Kundra’s “25 Point Implementation Plan To Reform Federal Information”, I was struck by the anecdote regarding how the lack of scalability was the cause for outages and,…
Metering and Instrumentation: Two Critical and Oft Forgotten Features of Cloud Services
Additionally, proper inclusion of metering and instrumentation interfaces into you Cloud service means that you have greater control over the granularity of the data produced through these interfaces. Most metering…