In our latest podcast I talk with Armando Fox and Dave Patterson, two of the RAD Lab team behind the recently released Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing.

The Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory (RAD Lab) at the University of California, Berkeley – sponsored by the likes of Google, Microsoft and Sun – is well connected to the companies and research shaping the Cloud Computing space, and their report is intended to offer a coherent view of the opportunities being created now and in the future.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Web Services
• Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)
• Larry Ellison on Cloud Computing (as reported by the Wall Street Journal
• Google App Engine
• James Hamilton’s paper on Cloud Computing costs (PDF)
• Microsoft Azure
• The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View From Berkeley
• Richard Stallman on Cloud Computing (as reported by The Guardian)
• Washington Post analysis of Hillary Clinton’s travel, powered by Amazon

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 17 February, 2009.

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