Dustin has held various jobs in software design and development at IBM including distributed system infrastructure development, and Web 2.0 runtime architecture design. Before joining IBM, he worked as a Lotus Domino application developer. In his current role, Dustin acts as a technical evangelist for emerging technologies in the IBM WebSphere software portfolio. His current focus is on WebSphere offerings that help users to leverage cloud computing.

Contributions

• Article: Declaritive Programming in the Cloud - January 2010
  While some optimizations to code written in the imperative style can be inserted by a compiler, it doesn't lend itself to the same optimizations that code written in a declarative style does. When coders tell a system what they want to do, as is the case in the declarative style, the system can decide the most efficient way to carry out the action. This programming model is particularly useful in the realm of cloud computing.
  
  
• Article: Five Reasons to Choose a Private Cloud - September 2009
  There's been much debate over public versus private cloud as the number of solutions in both spaces increase every day. Here is a look at the top five most common reasons why consumers would choose to implement private clouds over their public counterparts.
  
  
• Paper: Cloud Computing Use Cases - August 2009
  The Cloud Computing Use Case group brought together cloud consumers and cloud vendors to define common use case scenarios for cloud computing. The use case scenarios demonstrate the performance and economic benefits of cloud computing and are based on the needs of the widest possible range of consumers.
  The goal is to highlight the capabilities and requirements that need to be standardized in a cloud environment to ensure interoperability, ease of integration and portability. It must be possible to implement all of the use case described in this paper without closed, proprietary technologies. Cloud computing must evolve as an open environment, minimizing vendor lock-in and increasing customer choice.
  
  
• Article: IBM & Cloud Computing: Self Service Clouds with Fine Grained Control - July 2009
  A common feature of cloud computing solutions is that they enable self-service access to the services they provide. But cloud solutions shouldn't provide their services in a free for all manner, letting any user take any action within the system. There should be strict controls over the services users have access to and the actions they can perform. The WebSphere CloudBurst strikes a nice balance between self service access and security.
  
  
• Article: Forget Defining Cloud Computing - June 2009
  Defining cloud computing has proven to be nearly impossible. Ask ten different people and you'll get ten different answers. Countless discussion groups, blogs, and articles have attempted to give their own take on cloud computing, and all to no avail. The industry just can't agree on a common definition. Perhaps it's time to move past trying to define the cloud and look into the common characteristics of cloud solutions.
  
  
• Article: SOA in the Cloud: The Cloud of Services - June 2009
  Much like governance in a SOA, governance in the cloud helps to ensure that dynanicism and agility don't mean chaos. Dustin discusses the importance of cloud solutions that are organized as services.
  
  
• Article: Customizing Your Private Cloud - June 2009
  When looking at creating a cloud of application environments, private clouds are attractive to many users because of the control, insight, and security they offer. However, besides these things, there is another benefit afforded by private cloud application environments: customizability. Customizations are important because they represent a competitive differentiation.
  
  
• Article: Bringing Cloud Computing to SOA - June 2009
  It's all about the Services. Dusting shares how companies can bring the cloud experience to their SOA.
  
  
• Article: Should Developers Care About Cloud Computing? - May 2009
  An Introduction to Cloud Computing for Developers
  Some may say that cloud computing doesn't affect the developer in any way, while others will say developers need to totally revamp their skill set to cope with the new landscape proffered by cloud computing. The truth is somewhere in the middle.
  
  
• Article: What's in a Cloud Appliance? - May 2009
  A Closer Look At the IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance
  The WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance has the ability to create, deploy, and administer private Websphere cloud environments and gives customers the ability to create and manage a services oriented cloud. Dustin discusses its creation, deployment, and administration capabilities and what they mean to the user.
  
  
• Article: IBM Announces New Cloud Offerings - April 2009
  New WebSphere Offerings Address Private and Public Clouds
  Two new offerings, the WebSphere CloudBurst Application Server Hypervisor Edition and the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance, help users construct private WebSphere cloud environments. In addition, more WebSphere offerings are being made available in the form of Amazon Machine Images. This allows users to utilize WebSphere enterprise class software in the Amazon Elastic Cloud.
  
  
• Article: Open Standards For The Cloud - April 2009
  Distributed Management Task Force Tackles Open Cloud Standards
  It's time to acknowledge that open standards are not an inhibitor to innovation, but instead they facilitate the kind of technology adoption that makes innovation both possible and profitable.
  
  
• Article: Five Ways Cloud Computing Strengthens IT - April 2009
  Enhancing Development and Test with Cloud Computing
  The more dynamic, autonomic capabilities promised by cloud could relieve some of the burden in managing large, complex IT infrastructure operations. Dustin discusses five different ways in which cloud computing strengthens development and test groups.
  
  
• Article: Cloud Computing For the Enterprise: Part 1: Capturing The Cloud - April 2009
  Cloud computing is now here, but many still have questions about this new technology. Part 1 of this article series discusses cloud computing in general, then disects the layers of the cloud, presents the different cloud types, along with their benefits and drawbacks, and explains why this movement is important for enterprise developers.
  
  
• Article: Cloud Computing Service Elasticity - April 2009
  Services Must Scale in the Cloud
  A lot of discussion is given to providing virtualized, dynamically scaled resources such as servers, processors, and operating systems. By optimizing the usage and consumption of these infrastructure resources, IT operations can be significantly enhanced.
  
  
• Article: Cloud Computing as a Competitive Advantage - April 2009
  Businesses that understand how to best leverage the cloud to facilitate innovation will have a competitive advantage.
  
  
• Article: Cloud Computing for Enterprises: WebSphere sMash and DB2 on EC2 - April 2009
  This article discusses the public cloud and how the WebSphere sMash and DB2 Amazon Machine Images can be used to deliver rich Internet Applications.
  
  
  
  
• Article: Securing Applications Using WebSphere sMash Applications on Amazon EC2 - April 2009
  This article walks users through securing WebSphere sMash applications deployed on the Amazon Elastic Compute Grid. It illustrates how to secure applications using both HTTP basic authentication and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) methods.
  
  
  

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