This post was written by Mulah Johnson

3Tera has announced that its eye-catching application building platform has gone through a major upgrade. The company calls its new platform an “infrastructure delivery network.” At the highest level, that means that the company can deliver remote backup on its technology platform, which is called AppLogic. “What’s new in cloud computing is the ability to leverage it for general purpose computing, and not have to write for a specific platform,” says Bert Armijo, 3Tera senior vice president of sales, marketing, and product management. “As long as the application runs on Linux (and now Solaris too), we can move between data centers with a single command.”
Read the full article here

This post was written by Mulah Johnson

A San Francisco company, Hyperic Inc., has launched CloudStatus.com to monitor the health of Amazon’s cloud for other users. The company built various applications to test the Web services constantly. For example, an application could test how many seconds it takes to put a document on one of Amazon’s servers. According to Schneider, no technology can ever be successful unless developers can trust it. A great quote from the piece-
“The cloud computing technology faces two obstacles: monitoring and security and as the industry solves both of those, I think we’re going to see massive, massive scale out in the cloud. Even if it’s a wild success today, it’s going to blow your mind in the next two to three years.”
Read the full article here

This post was written by Mulah Johnson

On Web2.0 Journal, Reuven Cohen says that defining what cloud computing is in itself a tough job, the lack of common cloud methodologies and best practices is making the job even harder. Trying to find experienced people with knowledge on how to build out a 30,000 machine cloud is nearly impossible, and finding someone who’s deployed hundreds is proving to be almost as difficult, according to Cohen. Cohen believes that, with increasing deployment of cloud computing, those who have seen the paradigm shift toward this type of service offering will prosper.
Read the full article here

This post was written by Mulah Johnson

Microsoft Corp.’s new business applications division head, Stephen Elop, said that the company expects a “substantial portion” of revenues of this core division to come from online applications over the next few years. Elop said that he wants to “aggressively facilitate” the re-engineering of Microsoft’s Office division for a world where business applications increasingly are stored off-premise, a development known as “cloud computing.” The move would prove to be a critical shift for the company whose most of the software is stored on customers’ desktop computers.
Read the full article here