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		<title>How to tell the difference between &#8220;cloud&#8221; and &#8220;virtualization&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/02/07/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-cloud-and-virtualization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people seem to think &#8220;cloud&#8221; is just off-premise &#8220;virtualization&#8221;.  Cloud comes in a few flavors and I&#8217;ll argue that you can have &#8220;private cloud&#8221; either hosted off-premise in a provider&#8217;s facility or in your own.  The fundamental difference between cloud and virtualization is the goal of cloud is to automate provisioning (this applies to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public clouds and their features, followed by the future of cloud computing hardware</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m going to break this post up into two sections, the first will discuss public clouds and their features focused on advanced networking as an example.  The second portion will look at the future of cloud computing hardware &#8212; both networking and computing.
Public Clouds and Feature Selection
A discussion started on Twitter today after Werner Vogels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Availability is a fundamental design concept</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/10/03/availability-is-a-fundamental-design-concept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today a conversation on Twitter with Christopher Hoff (@Beaker), James Watters (@wattersjames), George Reese (@georgereese), Benjamin Black (@benjaminblack), and Shlomo Swidler (@ShlomoSwidler) discussed how many people seem to assume that because clouds can scale and rapidly provision servers that they&#8217;re always available and that because of this availability doesn&#8217;t have to be a fundamental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Computing, &#8220;For Everyone, Not Everything&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/06/07/cloud-computing-for-everyone-not-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cloud computing is a broad term that covers Internet based services that provide SaaS (Software as a service), PaaS (Platform as a service), and IaaS (Infrastructure as a service).  SaaS services are the most commonly used cloud solutions &#8212; web based e-mail is the prime example.  The most widely used PaaS offering is probably WordPress.org [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Computing forces IT &#8220;Evolve or Perish&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/03/21/cloud-computing-forces-it-evolve-or-perish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started this blog I thought I&#8217;d be talking about technology on a regular basis and so far I haven&#8217;t.  This is still somewhat business related but it is also very tech heavy.  The tech focused pieces I intend to explain at a level that an average &#8220;nerd&#8221; gets but the average adult can [...]]]></description>
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