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What happens when your cloud provider has multiple datacenters and has the ability to move your code around based on their need (read: not your need)? One thing that any enterprise IT buyer knows how to say is "who's throat do I choke?" When you have a composited application, who exactly are you going to be calling? The cloud providers have yet to address the myriad of problems which can, and will, arise.read more

Mockups are an important part of the design process. You don't want to do too much work before you know if the client will like it, but you want to...

There's been quite a bit of chatter on the web about Microsoft's Azure Services Platform. Obviously I'm excited to see people talking about our new platform, especially when there is plenty of good, some bad, and some good if not somewhat rambling. There will be no shortage of guessing as to what Microsoft is "really up to" with our development efforts. read more

Cassatt, the company started by BEA founder Bill Coleman, is redirecting its data center widgetry into creating internal clouds comparable to Amazon or Google out of infrastructure customers already have in-house. Coleman observed that most IT professionals aren't comfortable outsourcing the mission-critical parts of their sensitive internal applications to an external cloud provider. read more

More is better, right? Wrong. In "The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less," Barry Schwartz explains how too many options actually cause more psychological distress. And nowhere is the overabundance of choice more prevalent than the internet, where any given website can present us with an overwhelming number of alternatives at once.read more

One of the things people often forget when deciding what hosting provider to choose is security. Security is a critical part of the hosting system - if their system is...