List of Resources on Cloud Computing

Analytical Reports

• Capitalizing on the Cloud: four key issues for technology vendors by MR Rangaswami, host of Cloud Summit Executive 
• Cloud Computing, Vendor and Souring Blog : Written by Kunal Mittal; Consulting CTO/Advisor to several startups, Executive Director of Technology, Sony Pictures Entertainment 
• Cloud Computing and Enterprise IT : Written by Manjunath Gangadhar, Enterprise Architect.
  
• http://Blog.RightScale.com : Cloud Computing. Delivered 
• Randy Bias on Clouds, Infrastructure, and Automation (Founder of CloudScale Networks) 
• High Scalability 
• http://elasticserver.blogspot.com/ : Elastic Server - CohesiveFT team blog 
• Roughtype : Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World From Edison to Google
• Virtualization and Grid Computing: Tim Freeman, primary developer of Nimbus
• ProductionScale: Kent Langley, Scalable Web Infrastructure and Technology Operations
• Cloud Musings: Kevin Jackson, 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 
• IT Management and Cloud Blog: John Willis' personal comments and podcasts
• Head In The Clouds:  Written by Bert Armijo, SVP at 3tera, includes product info as well as comments on industry events
  
• SpoutingShite: Ross Cooney, MD of Rozmic. Cloud computing, email and spam.
• Cloud Talk:  John M Willis blog on IT management and Cloud technology. Also, check out the Cloud Cafe Podcasts
  
• TodoOnDemand: Blog about SaaS, Cloud Computing, On Demand Software, Business models, etc...
• CAM Blog Jason Meiers of CAM Solutions, monitoring composite applications for cloud computing blog
• dev2ops: Blog by consultants and open source developers specializing in SaaS, e-commerce, and cloud automation
• News and Ideas about Cloud Computing: Edward M. Goldberg reports about ideas and updates to the Cloud Community.
• Nubeblog : El Blog en Español sobre Cloud Computing, Grid, Alta Disponibilidad y Escalabilidad.
• CloudEnterprise.info - Dmitry's collection of news, analysis, and opinions on Cloud Computing and SaaS in the Enterprise.
• CloudDB.info - Cloud Computing News and Info from a Database Geek!  Written by Lewis Cunningham.
• Elastic Server Blog:  Strategies, projections, use case examples, and how-to-guide for cloud computing from the folks at CohesiveFT provider of the Elastic Server factory webservice and VPN-Cubed overlay network products.
• CloudSecurity.org: Craig Balding covers - What is Cloud Computing Security?  What are the risks, threats and countermeasures?  How do we ’secure the Cloud’.
• Technology Musings Ben Sprachman's personal blog on technology subjects, first entry focuses on cloud computing. 
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Resources

• Cloud Computing Wiki
• Cloud Computing Jobs : post job positions or place your resume
• http://www.virtualization.info/radar/ : Categorized list of companies, cloud enablers
• http://www.3tera.com/AppLogic/ : 3Tera's platform for cloud and utility computing; available as a service or in-house license
• http://aws.amazon.com/ : Amazon web services (EC2, S2, SQS, etc.)
  
• http://www.cassatt.com : Platform for enterprise clouds (using existing data center resources)
• http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu/ : EUCALYPTUS: open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing"; API compatible with Amazon EC2
  
• http://appengine.google.com : Google AppEngine (PaaS)
  
• http://developer.intuit.com/quickbase/ : Intuit QuickBase (PaaS)
  
• http://www.mesh.com : Microsoft Mesh (PaaS)
• http://www.mosso.com : Rackspace's hosting cloud
  
• Virtual Workspaces project: open source (Apache2 licensed) cloud and grid computing toolkit for existing resources
• http://www.grid.org.il/?CategoryID=497 IGT Cloud Computing Knowledge Base
  
• Cloud Computing Portal
• GoGrid - offering "Control in the Cloud"
• CloudStatus  : Realtime performance monitoring of clouds (currently AWS), follow performance on Twitter
• UtilityStatus : Application monitoring as a service, deep dive diagnositcs for Java applications running on the cloud. 
• ControlTier Deployment Automation : open source tools and automation framework for orchestrating the deployment of complex applications to local and cloud infrastructure.
  
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Books

• The Big Switch: Rewiring the World From Edison to Google, Nicholas Carr
  
• Dot.Cloud: The 21st Century Business Platform Built on Cloud Computing, Peter Fingar, (www.mkpress.com).