Tag Archives: Elastic Computing
Oracle Announces “A Cloud in a Box”
recently Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced Oracle’s entry into the cloud-computing arena with Exalogic Elastic Cloud, that has been dubbed “Cloud in a Box”. Ironically the Cloud is supposed to eliminate the Box, so technically this is an oxymoron following current definitions and trends in Cloud Computing. So how can Oracle claim to have a cloud in a box? Continue reading
Just launched on Project Hosting at Google the loafwithjam project. LOAF stands for Live Object Application Framework and supports the Actor Model of Concurrency introduced in my last post. I have upload the documentation for codes that are similar to what have been in operation for web analytics collection and processing successfully for many years. Continue reading
Cloud Computing From Both Sides Now
This is an review of how cloud computing is defined today and what the pundits have to say about its future. Currently it is confined to IT and the ability to move enterprise functions into the cloud onto virtual servers that can be allocated to meet demand. But what is the effect beyond IT? Continue reading
Mind Before You Mine 