Thor Henning Hetland

Amazon CloudFront

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront delivers your content using a global network of edge locations. Requests for your objects are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance.

Cloud Computing: Are You Looking for IaaS or PaaS Provider?

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Cloud Computing: Are You Looking for IaaS or PaaS Provider?

Microsoft, offers a way to host your .Net applications on the Cloud with a pricing model yet to be officially announced, and offers integration with some Microsoft services/applications.

Cloud definition misses the point....

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Cloud definition misses the point....

Here are the three criteria I have for determining whether something is a cloud service or not:

Cloud definitions in despair.. (Gartner)

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Cloud definitions in despair.. (Gartner)

Cloud definitions are vague.

That is - how can we expect IT people to be able to strategize and decide on IT direction and tactics if we can't even describe for them what the real issues are in any consistent way. For that, we need a commonly accepted definition, even if it is not great.

Clouded Vision

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Clouded Vision

Cloud computing platforms offer many benefits including:

CloudMQ

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

CloudMQ

Platform components as a service will hit the software marked hard in 2009 and 2010, but until developers and architects understand how to leverage the platform components in a clear and consistent way, they will add more pain than salvation... Read up on some of the architecture axioms and distributed architectures and analyse your current design and architectures before moving to platform component services is advised. :)

Clouds only for tactical projects until 2012 - Gartner misses the point... (again)

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Clouds only for tactical projects until 2012 - Gartner misses the point... (again)

The cloud computing market is in a period of excitement, growth and high potential, but will still require several years and many changes in the market before cloud computing -- or service-enabled application platforms (SEAPs) -- is a mainstream IT effort, according to Gartner, Inc.

Considerations in Building Web Applications for the Amazon Cloud

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Considerations in Building Web Applications for the Amazon Cloud

1. Licensing - If you stay Open Source you are OK... Commercial Licences may kill your budget..
1. Persistence - Application persistence.. Amazon does not like filesystems, use DB for persistence...
1. Horizontal Scalability. Not sure that this gets the point.. vertical scalability should work even better on Amazon. Anyone?
1. Disaster Recovery. Its a distributed system - cope and be happy :)

Free SimpleDB Beta Cloud from Amazon

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Free SimpleDB Beta Cloud from Amazon

For "at least" the next six months, Amazon will provide a certain amount of free cloud sitting. Every month, SimpleDB users will receive 25 machine hours, 1GB of data transfers in, 1GB of transfers out, and 1GB of storage at no charge. Once those freebies are exhausted, you'll pay $0.14 per machine hour, $0.10 per GB in, $0.10 to $0.17 per GB out, and $0.25 per GB of storage. Storage pricing is down 83 per cent from the cloud's limited beta.

Open Source and Community Clouds

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Open Source and Community Clouds

StratusLab

StratusLab is an informal collaboration between CNRS/LAL, GRNET, SixSq Sarl, and UCM. The collaboration is open to anyone who would like to participate. The collaboration focuses on cloud technologies and how those technologies can be used productively in research and commercial environments.

Sinnataggen and some Cloud development thoughts...

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Sinnataggen and some Cloud development thoughts...

"if the cloud were a child, it would be an angry two year old. The challenge for the industry now is how to make it through the terrible twos."

Trouble In The Clouds - Gmail Turns Into Gfail

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Trouble In The Clouds - Gmail Turns Into Gfail

Thousands of Twitter messages carrying the words "gmail" or "gfail" will teach you that Google's free web-based e-mail platform is currently down. A Google spokesperson told Pocket Lint that their engineers are working on it but have no clue why the errors are turning up.

VMware - All your clouds are belong to us

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

VMware - All your clouds are belong to us

VMWorld VMware is introducing a new vSphere architecture and management product to manage a data centre as an internal or external cloud of services.

Why clouds should be more like operating systems

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Why clouds should be more like operating systems

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/12/cloud_package_management/

Let's say you are running multiple different Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), which contain your applications, libraries, data and configuration settings on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and you are using Amazon's S3 for storage. Don't think running everything in the cloud will abstract away potential management problems. You'll still have a system administration headache until you script something or update your AMIs with your new software and application code.

Its time for auto scaling - avoid peak load provisioning for web applications

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Its time for auto scaling - avoid peak load provisioning for web applications

Good blog-post on an old-trick:

Transparency is essential to security in the cloud

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Transparency is essential to security in the cloud

I'm always shocked by comments like this:

Cloud - auto-magic or just provisioning platform for your distributed system

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Cloud - auto-magic or just provisioning platform for your distributed system

Good blog-post from a quite interesting twitter-discussion on cloud technology.

Gartner on Cloud Computing, misses again...

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Gartner on Cloud Computing, misses again...

While the market is starting to get their grips on terminology and categorization of Cloud Computing, Gartner seem to be lost in their own world. Failing to separate Key characteristics, delivery models and deployment models and leveling the field into five attributes, Gartner tries to push us back to Ground Zero :(

On the greenness of Clouds

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

On the greenness of Clouds

I've had some discussions on the greenness of Cloud Computing the last few weeks. Most people consider the Cloud to be Green IT, but there are skeptics. Their main argument against the greenness of the Cloud is usually componentisation.

Frøya: A Digital Co-Worker

Thor Henning Hetland — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:32:45 +0000

Frøya: A Digital Co-Worker

The question we kept coming back to when building Frøya was: what's the difference between an AI tool and an AI team member?

A tool executes tasks. A team member has a perspective, a purpose, a way of engaging with the work that adds something beyond the task itself. The distinction sounds philosophical. In practice it shapes everything about how you design, deploy, and work with the agent.