http://blog.3tera.com In the trenches of Cloud and Utility Computing Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:58:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Congratulations to Albert Wu and his team at SilkFair on their recent mention in the Wall Street Journal. Albert contacted 3tera shortly after we came out of beta, and have been using AppLogic for well over a year through our hosting partners. He also had the distinction of being the ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/applogic-user-silkfair-featured-in-wsj/ There have been multiple white papers and articles written by analysts - Is Cloud Computing Ready for the Enterprise?  The question is asked so many times now - Is Cloud Computing ready for the enterprise?  So, I have to ask - Is the enterprise ready for Cloud Computing? I'll start this ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/are-enterprises-ready-for-cloud-computing-or-the-darwinian-theory-of-the-corporate-datacenter-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-cloud/ With the recent flurry of everything-as-a-service blog posts, it was good to read Frank Dzubeck's pragmatic article on The Industry Standard outlining five issues that should be considered upfront by anyone pondering using cloud computing to run their apps. Frank list covers the basics of security, performance and financial ROI, ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/five-questions-cloud-computing-users-should-ask/ John Foley wrote a short piece on InformationWeek covering 3tera as their Startup of the Week that's worth a read. http://blog.3tera.com/computing/informationweek-writes-about-3tera/ With well over 18 months of data, 3tera's metering system is starting to provide some interesting statistics. One example I can share for instance, is the graph below which illustrates that since January 2007 the average resource consumption per AppLogic user has quadrupled even as we've added more and more ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/more-stats-from-the-applogic-metering-system/ I've been reviewing the metering data from AppLogic installations recently to determine uptime and for the first 7 months of 2008, our users experienced 99.9% availability. I'll be sharing more stats over the coming days, but for the moment I want to congratulate our operations team and all our data ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/999-availability-for-the-first-half-of-2008/ We (other members of the 3tera team and I) had the pleasure of talking to John Foley this week. John is writing for InformationWeek and is focusing on Cloud Computing. This is a knowledgeable guy who has thoroughly researched the space. During the chat, something very important dawned on me. This ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/pain-in-the-aasemantics/ Alistair Croll's written another thought provoking piece on Gigaom, this time discussing how the cloud will force networking vendors to change over the next few years. Having spent more than a decade building networking companies this is a subject near to my heart and I think Alistair did a good ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/will-cloud-computing-have-an-impact-on-networking-gear/ our CEO, Barry, is fond of saying that google isn't just about search, it's about scale. As if to punctuate his point for him, today google published a post about the 1 trillionth URL on the web, " . . . our systems that process links on the web to ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/google-1-trillion-unique-urls-on-the-web/ Xseed's recent announcement offering AppLogic in Japan means cloud computing is now truly global. http://blog.3tera.com/computing/the-sun-never-sets-on-the-cloud/