I had so much to say in response to a recent post asking about virtualization from Jennifer Glore that I realized it was long enough to be a blog post.It really depends on what you're looking to do. Many companies don't have the money and staff to have an in-house data center with proper power and network redundancy; others don't want the depreciati

Brian Aker introduces EC2.

A list of three cautions when moving to cloud computing (Amazon EC2).

Amazon EC2 is a new platform on which to run MySQL. This session evaluates the performance possible on the variety of hardware configurations available with EC2.