Should you host your next application in the cloud or should you continue to host your application on dedicated servers? If you were itching to put your next application in the cloud, you may want to hold off on that move. In some cases it makes sense to start your application in the cloud, but in most cases it doesn’t. In the past, reliability was a big...

Sun recently announced that they are entering the cloud computing business. They were short on details, but long on creating communities, OS virtualization, API’s, and being a better value than Amazon’s EC2 service. It remains to see how much traction Sun will gain in the growing cloud computing services market. I’m very satisfied with...