Networking devices on the edges have become smarter over time. So have the firewalls and switches used internally within the networks. Whether we like it or not, web applications over time have grown to depend on them.
Its impossible to build a flawless product because of which its standard practice to disable all unused services on [...]

While “private clouds may not be the future” they are definitely needed today. Here are some of the top issues bothering some organizations which have been thinking about going into the cloud. Some of issues were based on Craig Bolding’s talk on “Guide to cloud security”.

Unlike your own data center, you will never know [...]

James Hamilton is one of the leaders in this industry and has written a very thought provoking post about private clouds not being the future. This is what he said about private clouds when compared to existing not-cloud solutions.

A fix, Not the future (reference to an InformationWeek post)
Runs at lower utilization levels
Consumes more [...]

A few days ago I blogged about how VMware is going to do a huge push into “private clouds” around the VMware 2009 conference. But little did we know that Amazon had something up its sleeve as well. It has announced it today.
AWS now supports creation of Virtual Private Cloud with private address space (including [...]

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 [...]

 
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 [...]

 
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 [...]