Last year at VMware 2008 conference they discussed something called vCloud. Before VMware 2009, they will be announcing external clouds providers around that platform which allow internal clouds to extend their infrastructure to external clouds.
What VMware is trying to do is allow organizations to build cloud networks with the possibility of moving few services/components [...]

Alex Barrera has a very interesting post about how frustrating it is to figure out that you have a problem and how much trouble it is to fix it after the product is live.
I am there, I am suffering the redesign phase (twice now). It’s hard, it’s lonely, it’s discouraging and frustrating, but it [...]

 
Products/Ideas

redis – http://code.google.com/p/redis/ : Redis is a key-value database. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists and sets with atomic operations to push/pop elements.
HBase – http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/ : HBase is the Hadoop database. Its an open-source, distributed, column-oriented store modeled [...]

While rest of the world is busy with Microsoft and Google, Yahoo might be preparing to launch MObStor which they tout as the “Unstructured Storage for the Internet”.
While comparing MObStor to the various Cloud computing storage solutions already available, Navneet Joneja, Sr. Product Manager, mentions Facebook’s Haystack to describe MObStor’s architectural design. He also points [...]

Jonathan Ellis’ started up a storm when he posted an entry about CouchDB about 6 months ago. He questioned some of CouchDB’s claims and made an attempt to warn users who don’t understand practical issues around CoughDB very well.
After reading his post and some comments, it looked like he was specifically concerned about [...]

 
Some notes from a talk I was at. Didn’t get time to write it in detail. But hey, something is better than nothing… right ?
Design for failure
        – handle failure             – use elastic ip addresses             – use multiple amazon ec2 availability zones [...]