Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/
Amazon releases Amazon VPC “to connect your existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection” as limited beta. Important step to hybrid Clouds for larger enterprises.

Why Private Cloud Will Make IT Think Like Wal-Mart

http://www.cio.com/article/500096/Why_Private_Cloud_Will_Make_IT_Think_Like_Wal_Mart

Hypertable

http://www.hypertable.org/

New York Times: Data Center Overload

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/magazine/14search-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Annelidous – Virtual Infrastructure Management Framework

http://www.annelido.us/

Drizzle – A Lightweight SQL Database for Cloud and Web

https://launchpad.net/drizzle

Envisioning the Cloud (marketspace whitepaper)

PDF: http://www.marketspaceadvisory.com/cloud/Envisioning-the-Cloud.pdf

Cloud Computing Ontology

http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~lyouseff/CCOntology/CloudOntology.pdf
http://groups.google.com/group/cloudforum/browse_thread/thread/a6cde5edd3a9a5c5?hl=en
http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/cloud-computing-taxonomy-ontology-please-review.html

A maturity model for cloud computing

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10122295-240.html
http://blogs.sun.com/downstream/entry/an_evolving_maturity_model_for
http://rodos.haywood.org/2008/12/maturity-model-for-cloud-computing-2009.html
Cloud Maturity Models don’t make sense:
www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/12/cloud_maturity.html
http://www.zapthink.com/news.html?id=2753

The Self-governing Internet: Coordination by Design

http://ccs.mit.edu/papers/CCSWP197/CCSWP197.html

Red Hat Delivers Scalable SOA to Booz Allen Hamilton

http://www.on-demandenterprise.com/topic/SOA/Red_Hat_Delivers_Scalable_SOA_to_Booz_Allen_Hamilton.html

Tim O’Reilly: Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing

http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/10/web-20-and-cloud-computing.html
Response “What O’Reilly gets wrong about the cloud”:
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/10/what_tim_oreill.php
and
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/10/further_thought.php

For Cloud-Based Company, SOA Means Extreme Competitive Advantage

http://www.soainaction.com/blog/2008/09/starting_up_a_startup_with_soa.php

Is Your Cloud Opaque or Transparent?

http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2008/08/04/3512.aspx