Authors: Dr.-John-Busch-: dbta.com

Biographical Information

Dr. John Busch

Dr. John Busch is CEO, president and co-founder of Schooner Information Technology, a provider of data access appliances for information-intensive Web 2.0 and cloud computing datacenters. Dr. Busch has more than 25 years of industry experience as a computer system research director at Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, vice president of engineering and business partnerships at Diba (acquired by Sun), and co-founder/vice president of engineering of Clarity Software. For more information about

Schooner Information Technology, go to www.schoonerinfotech.com.

Articles By Dr. John Busch

Leveraging Higher Level Data Center Building Blocks to Manage Skyrocketing Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing Workloads

The rising popularity of web 2.0 and cloud computing services has prompted a reexamination of the infrastructure that supports them. More and more people are using web-based communities, hosted services, and applications such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis and blogs. And the number of businesses adopting cloud computing applications such as software as a service and hosted services is climbing swiftly.With all this growth, internet data centers are struggling to handle unprecedented workloads, spiraling power costs, and the limitations of the legacy architectures that support these services. The industry has responded by moving towards a "data center 2.0" model where new approaches to data management, scaling, and power consumption enable data center infrastructures to support this growth.

Posted 13 Oct 2009 / October 2009 Issue