Fubaredness Is Contagious

Theo Schlossnagle published a great piece titled The cloud is great. Stop the hype. As a technologist, I totally agree that hype is what’s killing it. In fact, on several occasions I mentioned to my co-workers that often I get the feeling that cloud computing is already a bubble that will burst sooner rather than [...]

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In computer science, according to Wikipedia, abstraction is a “mechanism to reduce and factor out details so that one can focus on a few concepts at a time.”
When you hear about abstraction in the context of virtualization-based IaaS cloud computing, the most well known abstraction is computing resources themselves (encapsulation is at play here as [...]

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In December 2009, Amazon Web Services team introduced yet another innovation – spot pricing for EC2 instances. Several sites were created shortly to track spot price history by creating price charts. But price charts are relatively boring – juicy meat is in the dynamics hidden inside series of numbers which represent the price history. Let’s [...]

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As most of you probably know, I work at CohesiveFT where I focus on VPN-Cubed product. In short, it’s a solution to build overlay networks in third-party clouds. Overlay networks in this case are based on redundant encrypted point-to-point connections from your regular servers to your VPN-Cubed servers called “managers” (that you run in the [...]

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This past Thursday I had a chance to attend CloudCamp Boston that took place in Microsoft research center in Cambridge, as a representative of CohesiveFT. The event was very well attended, and I was able to meet a lot of smart interesting people working in cloud computing space.
The lightning talks section started with Microsoft representative [...]

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