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Another Amazon EC2 story
Looks like HotPads.com has abandoned traditional hosting and moved into Amazon’s elastic compute cloud (EC2). This is a trend that I’ve been following in the web space. (more…)
Filed under: web X.0 — Tags: architecture, availability, cloud, clustering, infrastructure, load-balancing — appgirl @ 9:00 pmComments (0)
Painting the Cisco Unified Computing vision and the steps to go there…
Wanted to share my thoughts around the launch of Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and my thoughts around what Unified Computing means to me (more…)
Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: architecture, cloud, clustering, infrastructure, performance — appgirl @ 9:12 pmComments (0)
Back to Mainframes… well, sort of
This particular topic has been on my mind for some time now. If we looked at the evolution of business computing, it looks something like:
’60s & ’70s – Users accessing applications that run on Mainframes through dumb terminals. No need for the management of end-user computing. (more…)
Filed under: web X.0 — Tags: architecture, infrastructure, mainframes, performance, virtualization — appgirl @ 9:16 pmComments (0)