[p2p-research] Fwd: April Issue of OSBR on cloud computing Available

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Dru Lavigne <dru at osbr.ca>
Date: Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:23 PM
Subject: April Issue of OSBR Available
To: Dru Lavigne <dru at osbr.ca>


Readers:

The April issue of the OSBR is now available at http://www.osbr.ca. The
editorial theme this month is "Cloud Solutions" and the authors include:

David Linthicum is the CTO of Bick Group, an author, and thought leader on
cloud computing. Dave's article starts with a discussion on the causes of
the shift to cloud computing. He then clarifies the meaning of the broad
term of cloud computing by identifying its key characteristics, different
deployment models, and various components. Dave finishes with an important
discussion on the value and economics of the cloud.

Fred Waldner is an independent consultant and a Certified Professional
Project Manager. His article discusses how the shift to cloud computing
mirrors the same challenges that we witnessed with the shift to enterprise
adoption of the Internet in the 1990s. He identifies some of the adoption
obstacles that must be overcome.

Daniel Crenna is an award winning developer, author, and active
entrepreneur. Daniel articulates the value of open source in hosted
solutions as companies adopt cloud computing. He examines the reasons why
companies use established open source software or give away their
proprietary code as the seeds of new open source projects.

Ronald Schmelzer is a Managing Partner at ZapThink LLC. His article
addresses the debate about private clouds. There are many companies that are
afraid of deploying critical applications and/or data in a public cloud
environment. Instead, many are contemplating building their own internal
cloud which goes against much of the value proposition of cloud computing
and keeps their dependency on expensive commercial software. Ron argues that
the concept of private clouds is a marketing term used by vendors rebranding
their products.

Tom Lounibos, CEO for SOASTA, discusses how the pay-as-you-go cloud
computing model allows SOASTA to simulate performance tests with loads that
were simply not feasible in the on-premise world. Low cost, on-demand cloud
computing services allow companies to deploy more reliable and scalable
solutions because they can now afford to test peak loads and fix bottlenecks
before they happen in the production environment.

John Crupi is CTO and Chris Warner is Vice President of Marketing at JackBe
Corporation. Previous articles discuss how the lower levels of the stack are
becoming a commodity and that IT's focus should be on business
functionality. John and Chris provide some examples of how organizations are
leveraging mashups to aggregate data from various locations into composite
applications.

The editorial theme for the upcoming May issue of the OSBR is
Communications Enablement and the guest editor will be Chris McPhee.
Submissions are due by April 20--contact the Editor if you are interested in
a submission.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,

Dru Lavigne
Editor, OSBR
http://www.osbr.ca
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Open Source Business Resource
http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr



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