Now begins the race to add value to basic cloud offerings. I expect to see slicehost, amazon, and rackspace to be doing a lot in this space. Amazon will probably be rolling their own, but rackspace and slicehost will be partnering.
I like articles for this because although on the face value it’s a writing software for the cloud application it’s really a best practices article on writing good software for horizontally scaling systems in distributed environments … you know or cloud environments.
A simple dashboard showing the a dynamic health status of Google and Amazon cloud services and any information on recent outages.
This fundamental starting point for an enterprise cloud computing definition. It identifies charicataristics, service models, and delivery models. This goes a long way to defining the technical aspects of cloud computing, but doesn’t address business drivers or the technical environments that cloud computing is growing from.
