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I am the founder of Cloud Foundry, which provides automated, outsourced data center management for Java applications on Amazon EC2.
I am the founder of Cloud Tools, which is an open-source project for automating the deployment of Java and Grails applications on Amazon EC2.
I run a training and consulting company that helps organizations build better software faster and deploy it on the cloud.
We provide a variety of services including:
- Development - we can build your application for you
- Deployment - we can find a hosting partner or deploy your application on Amazon EC2
- Training classes for Spring, Hibernate and Acegi Security
- Jumpstarts to get your project off to the right start
- Reviews to improve your architecture, code and development process
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A great definition of Cloud Computing
At Cloud Computing events and on mailing lists there seem to be endless, tedious discussions about what Cloud Computing is and isn't. But last week at the SDForum Cloud Computing Conference, James Staten of Forrester Research provided a great definition:
"A cloud is a pool of highly scalable, abstracted infrastructure that hosts your application, and is billed by consumption"
As an Amazon EC2 user, this certainly works for me. Thoughts?
I like the definition, however I'm not crazy about the word "abstracted".
While the word "virtual" wouldn't be a perfect replacement there, I feel
that "abstracted" conveys a sentiment that the cloud resources
auto-magically scale and handle themselves. Perhaps I'm wearing too much
of a developer hat when I consider this, but I expect "abstracted"
components to be easier and simpler to work with.