Calling all students and women: apply today for an OSDI '14 grant!Join us in Broomfield, CO, October 6-8, 2014, for the 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation. OSDI ’14 will bring together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in what has become the premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. The program includes two poster sessions and ove...

As the "cloud" becomes a common platform, web applications still live in a "stovepipe" world. It's not a question of "should we move to the cloud?" It's a question of once some, or most, or all of our web applications live in the cloud, how do we handle the problems of scalability, security, identity, storage, integration and interoperability? What was the problem of "enterprise application integration" in the late 90s, is now the cambrian exp...