I'm in Europe (UK and Germany) over the next couple of weeks. Part of the time will involve presenting to Associated Northcliffe Digital, which is one of the UK's largest digital publishers. I'm also finishing off the Media Dojo Cloud Computing Guide for Media. And I'll round out the UK experience by training hard with some old martial arts buddies in South London and then crashing a couple of pubs. From there Germany and the Di rock333 wrote: At the IaaS Cloud layer virtualisation is going to be essential to allow the self service attributes, all painful and slow to do with physical hardware. Moving up the stack to PaaS and SaaS the use of virtualisation may, as you say, be less required if you put lots of smarts into your software. A lot of software does not have those smarts and by utalising virtualisation of the layers below can manipulate existing software architectures to have more cloudy attributes through automation (eg run load balancers and deploy more servers automagically).
Over time, as new investment in software at...
Mar. 18, 2010 02:11 AM EDT
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