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Useful Cloud Computing Blogs

Todd Hoff

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Update 2: Overcast: Conversations on Cloud Computing. Listened to the first two podcasts and they're doing a great job. Worth a look. The singing and dance routines are way over the top however :-)
Update: 9 Sources of Cloud Computing News You May Not Know About by James Urquhart. I folded in these recommendations.

Can't get enough cloud computing? Then you must really be a glutton for punishment! But just in case, here are some cloud computing resources, collected from various sources, that will help you transform into a Tesla silently flying solo down the diamond lane.

Meta Sources

  • Cloud Computing Email List: An often lively email list discussing cloud computing.
  • Cloud Computing Blogs & Resources. An excellent and big list of cloud resources.
  • Cloud Computing Portal: A community edited database for making the vendor selection process easier.
  • List of Cloud Platforms, Providers, and Enablers.
  • datacenterknowledge.com's Recap: More than 70 Industry Blogs : A nice set of blog's for: Data Center, Web Hosting, Content Delivery Network (CDN), Cloud Computing
  • Cloud Computing Wiki: A cloud computing wiki started by participants of the cloud email list.

    Specific Blogs

  • Cloud Computing on Twitter : Geva Perry's Big List of People Who Twitter About Cloud Computing
  • Overcast: Conversations on Cloud Computing : Podcast series on cloud computing by James Urquhart and Geva Perry.
  • James Urquhart's The Wisdom of Clouds : Cloud Computing and Utility Computing for the Enterprise and the Individual. James writes great articles and has a regular can't miss links style post summarizing much of what you need need to know in cloud world.
  • http://Blog.RightScale.com: Cloud Computing. Delivered.
  • Randy Bias's Cloudscaling: State of the Art for Startups.
  • http://elasticserver.blogspot.com/: Elastic Server - CohesiveFT team blog.
  • Nicholas Carr's Roughtype : Author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World From Edison to Google.
  • Christofer Hoff 's Rational Survivability: Ramblings about Information Survivability, Information Centricity, Risk Management and Disruptive Innovation. Oh, I have a fondness for virtualization, too..
  • Tim Freeman's Virtualization and Grid Computing: Primary developer of the Virtual Workspaces project.
  • Kent Langley's ProductionScale: Scalable Web Infrastructure and Technology Operations.
  • Kevin Jackson's Cloud Musings: Personal comments and insight on cloud computing and it relationship to net-centric warfare.
  • GoGrid Blog: Blog with product and industry news related to Cloud Computing and GoGrid.
  • John Willis' IT Management and Cloud Blog: Personal comments and podcasts.
  • Bert Armijo's Head In The Clouds: SVP at 3tera, includes product info as well as comments on industry events
  • Ross Cooney's SpoutingShite: MD of Rozmic. Cloud computing, email and spam.
  • TodoOnDemand: Blog about SaaS, Cloud Computing, On Demand Software, Business models, etc...
  • Jason Meiers' CAM Blog Monitoring composite applications for cloud computing blog.
  • Sam Johnston: Random rants about tech stuff.
  • Jian Zhen's and Michael Mucha's On SaaS
  • Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect
  • Cloud - Web and Service Cloud
  • Virtualization and Grid Computing: On distributed computing, VMs, Globus, Xen, Nimbus, and other technology.
  • Reuven Cohen's ElasticVapor Blog. The ramblings of Reuven Cohen, co-Founder & CTO Enomaly Inc.
  • ENKI Blog: Managed Cloud Computing Blog.
  • Cirrhus9's and M-E Consulting's Working in the Cloud: Cloud computing solutions for the world - or at least for Southern California.
  • Craig Balding's Cloud Security Blog: This blog is dedicated to Cloud Computing and Security.
  • Dell's Cloud Computing Blog
  • Chirag Mehta's Cloud Computing Blog: Architecture, strategy, design, and innovation ramblings.
  • GigaOm's Infrastructure Blog
  • Markus Klems' Cloudy Times Blog
  • Geva Perry's Thinking Out Cloud: Cloud Computing, Grids, Everything-as-a-Service and more.
  • James Hamilton's Perspective Blog
  • SearchDataCenter.com’s Server Farming Blog: Discusses the latest in server hardware, systems management, Unix-Linux-Wintel operating systems and large distributed computing systems
  • William Vambenepe's blog: IT management in a changing IT world
  • Toon Vanagt's virtualization.com/
  • Data Center Knowledge: News and analysis about data centers, managed hosting and disaster recovery.
  • Nati Shalom's Blog: Discussions about middleware and distributed technologies.
  • Appistry Blogs: At the convergence of Grid Computing, Virtualization and SOA
  • Avastu's Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds - REAL-TIME MARKET ANALYSIS & RESEARCH ON CLOUD COMPUTING, VIRTUALIZATION, GLOBAL SOURCING, EMERGING TRENDS AND BUSINESS STRATEGIES
  • Dan Kusnetzky's & Paula Rooney's Virtually Speaking
  • Phil Wainewright's : Software as Services
  • Grid Gurus: helping realize the value from cluster, distributed and grid computing.
  • Joyent's Blog: Cloud computing vendor.
  • Grid Designer's Blog: Consulting firm specializing exclusively in "extreme" applications and systems.
  • Rob Thorsten's Why Amazon’s RightScale Blog: Primarily talks about Amazon, but there's a lot of good general cloud info too.
  • On-Demand Enterprise: tracks the greater on-demand world beyond.
  • Google Alerts: "Cloud Computing" | "Utility Computing"
  • Jian Zhen's and Michael Mucha's cloudfeed.net: An automated feed of cloud computing and SaaS related stories.
  • On-Demand Enterprise's Cloud Computing Topic: Excellent coverage in the vendor coverage, traditional enterprise data center software. and virtualization space.
  • Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds: REAL-TIME MARKET ANALYSIS & RESEARCH ON CLOUD COMPUTING, FINANCIAL MARKETS, VIRTUALIZATION, GLOBAL SOURCING, EMERGING TRENDS AND BUSINESS STRATEGIES.
  • TechCrunchIT: dedicated to obsessively profiling products and companies in the Enterprise Technology space.
  • iHeavy by Sean Hull - Solid information on EC2, Linux, MySQL and Scalability.

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