Here's a resource guide for those who want to learn more about Cloud Computing. There is much more out there, but these links provide you enough reading so that you have an understanding what all the hype is about.
Let me know if you have other places you know about. I'll take a comment below or an email. Thanks!
Also...if you have not seen it yet...you can check out my Primer on Cloud Computing
Analyst Reports/Articles
- Gartner's Cloud Computing Special Report site. Also Gartner Says Cloud Computing Will Be As Influential As E-business
- Forrester Reports: "Is Cloud Computing Ready For The Enterprise?" and "Get Ready For Collaboration In The Cloud"
- Saugatuck Articles "SaaS Sets the Stage for 'Cloud Computing' " and "Platform-as-a-Service Gives SaaS a New Push "
- Redmonk: Michael Coté (analyst at Redmonk) recently posted a series of interesting blog entries reporting on his "Cloud Conference Week"
Business/Computer Media Publications
- Cloud Computing Journal http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/ and Their Article: Twenty Experts Define Cloud Computing
- CIO India article Cloud Computing: Not Just Empty Promises
- InfoWorld has published a Special Report on Cloud Computing and a Cloud Computing Strategy Guide
- InformationWeek has published a Guide to Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing Product Guide - Business Week Article “Google and the Wisdom of the Clouds,” by Stephen Baker, also Cloud Computing: Eyes on the Skies by Steve Hamm
- MIT Review article, “Google’s Cloud Looms Large: How Might Expanding Google’s Cloud Computing Service Alter the Digital World?” by Kate Greene.
- GigaOM's article: "10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud"
- ZDNet article: Cloud computing: A look at the myths
Podcasts/Videos:
- Gartner Voice: The Risks and Rewards of Cloud ComputingJohn Willis Cloud Cafe Podcast Series (Note...recordings are of low quality)
- Gartner Voice: Understanding Cloud Computing
- A discussion with Willy Chiu, IBM High Performance On Demand Solutions
- Cloud Computing Videos search results from mefedia
Blogs/ Other
- Irving: http://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2008/07/what-is-cloud-c.html
- Craig Baldin's Cloud Security Blog http://cloudsecurity.org
- Chirag Mehta's Cloud Computing Blog http://cloudcomputing.blogspot.com/
- John Willis, See Cloud Review for a list of key cloud blog posts. Also "Demystifying Clouds" and "Cloud Cafe Podcasts" and Top 10 Entperises in the Cloud
- On Saas http://www.onsaas.net
- Dana Gardner's Briefings Blog
- Randy Bia's Cloud Computing Blog
- Gianpaolo Cloudy Future for the Enterprise and most likely for ISVs too
- Ed Byrne (GM at Hosting365) Blog Cloud Computing - The Evolution of Internet Infrastructure
- Bert Armijo's Hot Cluster Blog http://blog.3tera.com/
- Cloud Security http://cloudsecurity.org
- Cloud Musings http://kevinljackson.blogspot.com
- Service Level Automation in the Data Center http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/
- Cloud - Web and Service Cloud http://cloud.drawcode.com/
- Nicholas Carr's Rough Type http://www.roughtype.com/
- Virtualization and Grid Computing http://www.gridvm.org
- The article, "What Cloud Computing Means to You," by Robert Strolmeyer. High Scalability Blog http://highscalability.com
- Reuven Cohen's ElasticVapor Blog http://elasticvapor.com/
- ENKI Blog http://www.enkiconsulting.net/blog/
- Working in the Cloud http://www.m-econsulting.com/cloud/
- Wikipedia website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
Cloud Computing Conferences/Events
- Cloud Computing in a Netcentric Environment Dates: 16-Jul-2008 to 12-Nov-2008
- Cloud Camp London Dates: 16-Jul-2008 18:30 to 16-Jul-2008 20:00
- CEC' 08/EEE' 08 Dates: 21-Jul-2008 to 24-Jul-2008
- Cloud Economies: How Pay-Per-Use and Linear Scalability Will Change IT Forever Dates: 22-Jul-2008 to 22-Jul-2008
- Interop: Cloud Computing Track September 15-19, 2008
- SDForum Cloud Computing Conference Dates: 01-Oct-2008 11:00 to 01-Oct-2008 18:00
- Cloud Computing Expo November November 20-21
- IGT2008 - Cloud Computing the Next Grid Evolution Dates: 01-Dec-2008 to 02-Dec-2008
- The Cloud Computing Summit Europe Dates: 04-Mar-2009 to 05-Mar-2009
- Cloud Computing Expo East March 22-24, 2009
Selected Vendor Websites
- Check out the Cloud Computing Portal's Vendor List
- Akami: Akamai website and Akami/Fujitsu announcement
- Amazon: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) Amazon's Wikipedia page: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud , CNET News.com article Amazon's blueprint for cloud computing and YouTube - Amazon EC2 Tutorial
- Areti Internet
- Cap Gemini Cloud Computing; the Invisible Infostructure
- Dell: Dell Cloud Computing Solutions web page.
- Enki
- Eucalyptus
- Flexiscale
- Fortress ITX
- Google Resource website on Distributed Computing
- HP - Research Dynamic Cloud website and Search of HP Blogs on term cloud
- IBM Press Release, and HiPods site
- Joyent
- Layered Technologies
- Microsoft: Live Mesh Announcement page and Live Mesh Website and Live Mesh Team Blog
- Network.com
- Rackspace
- Rightscale: Rightscale website and Rightscale Blog
- Red Hat's Cloud Computing FAQ website
- Salesforce.com
- Sun Microsystem's slide presentation, “Project Caroline: Platform as a Service, For Your Service, At Your Service,” by Bob Scheifler
- Terremark
- XCalibre
