Cloud Computing A Community-Based Framework to Evaluate Cloud Service Providers When we wrote last week about "4 Tools for Assessing Cloud Performance," we asked for suggestions about other resources that can help companies monitor and evaluate cloud services. And we asked for suggestions as to what factors, in addition to cost and performance, might be important to weigh when making business decisions. Jeffrey Abbott… Audrey Watters View comments
Events Guide ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 27 Aug. 2010 We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Let us know in the comments below or contact us. You can import individual events in the Events Guide into Google Calendar using the link beside each entry, or download the entire thing as an iCal file (which is… imported_1 View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Weekly Wrap-up: Digg 4 Takes a Dive, Reddit Founder Was "Terrified," Diaspora Update, And More... This week's top story was a no-brainer: the spectacular implosion of Digg's attempt to create a newer, better version of the site. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: We found 10 videos about the Internet of Things; augmented reality took a trip to the mountains; and Google tested real-time, as-you-type… imported_1 View comments
Browsers Hardware Acceleration is Coming to Chrome - Try it Now Google just confirmed that Chrome will soon support GPU hardware acceleration. Developers can speed up the rendering of complex pages by offloading a lot of the processing to a computer's graphics card, which - after all - was specifically designed for these tasks. As browser developers continue to try to increase the responsiveness of their… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Cloud Computing Coalitions and Communities - 3 Cloud Initiatives from the Summer of 2010 As we wrote yesterday, the summer of 2010 has been marked in the cloud computing world by open-sourcing technologies and multi-vendor agreements. We started the summer with OpenStack, the Rackspace and NASA open-cloud initiative. Earlier this week, Red Hat open-sourced its Deltacloud API. Also this week, newScale, rPath, Eucalyptus Systems and… Alex Williams View comments