Monthly Archives: July 2008

Cloud Computing wouldn’t exist without Open Source

Posted on July 23, 2008 by

I’m at OSCON this week drinking from the open source that made RightScale possible. In talking to Tim O’Reilly I noticed that he hadn’t realized how integral Open Source is to the cloud. So maybe this isn’t as obvious as … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, EC2 | 7 Comments

Cloud Computing vs. Grid Computing

Posted on July 7, 2008 by

Recently Rich Wolski (UCSB Eucalyptus project) and I were discussing grid computing vs. cloud computing. An observation he made makes a lot of sense to me. Since he doesn’t blog [...], let me repeat here what he said. Grid computing … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | 24 Comments