Cloud/Grid computing and virtualization for SOA

MUST READ Seeing cloud computing clearly EXPERT ANSWER - There is a lot of positive praise for cloud computing. Are there any negative side effects that businesses should be aware of? Grid applications merge with SOA infrastructures EXPERT ANSWER - Our company's SOA efforts and grid efforts have taken place completely separate from one another, now we're looking to bring them together. From a technical standpoint, where are the best places to look for overlap?

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	Salesforce embraces challange from Oracle SearchSOA.com | 01 Jul 2009 ARTICLE - When Oracle said it would get involved with cloud computing, Salesforce.com welcomed the competition.

	IBM CloudBurst tackles cloud configuration issues SearchSOA.com | 04 May 2009 ARTICLE - At its IBM Impact SOA event Big Blue unveiled CloudBurst, which seeks to ease cloud configuration issues.

	Investment site turns to Xignite, Amazon cloud computing to power portfolio tracker SearchSOA.com | 29 Apr 2009 ARTICLE - Social-networking website kaChing is using Xignite financial information services and some Amazon cloud computing cycles to power a virtual stock market.

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	Protocols for cloud services - Part 2 03 Jun 2009 TIP - This article takes a look at JavaSpace and Hadoop, two different technologies that distribute computing jobs to cloud computing resources, manage it, and get results back.

	Review of protocols for cloud services - Part 1 29 Apr 2009 TIP - A discussion of the wide range of protocols and architecture in grid/cloud/distributed computing is in order. Bill Brogden discusses some of them in order of increasing complexity.

	Grid technology 10 Sep 2007 EXPERT ANSWER - David Linthicum discusses the advantages and disadvantages of grid technology.

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	Get into the grid 29 Sep 2004 FEATURED TOPIC - Grid computing ties distributed computing resources via a local or wide area network making them appear as one large virtual computing system to an end user or application.

	Grid Computing 08 Oct 2003 FEATURED TOPIC - Whatis.com says according to IBM's John Patrick, "the next big thing will be grid computing."

	Are grids the future of Web services? 26 Mar 2003 FEATURED TOPIC - IBM, HP, Sun and other industry giants think grid and utility computing are the future of distributed computing. Find out how Web services figure into their pay-as-you-go plans.

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	Open Grid Services Architecture 02 Oct 2007 WORD - Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) is a set of standards defining the way in which information is shared among diverse components of large, heterogeneous grid systems. In this context, a grid system is a scalable wide ...

	PatriotGrid 01 Jul 2003 WORD - PatriotGrid is a group of distributed computing projects whose goal is to identify new leads for vaccines or cures for agents known to be potential bioterrorism weapons. To participate in PatriotGrid, users download a free, ...

	appliance computing 20 May 2002 WORD - Appliance computing is an Internet-based computing architecture where software applications reside on a Web server rather than on the end-user's workstation. The workstation, or appliance, is a thin client; it does not have a ...

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