Today in Cloud
I don’t which IBM news item took me more by surprise today, its Lotus cloud e-mail service (which is cheaper and, allegedly, more reliable than Google Apps), or its Hadoop-powered data analysis platform, M2. Both should be instant successes, and both demonstrate that IBM really understands the enterprise. Speaking of enterprises, Forrester released the results of a survey indicating that practically no enterprises are using IaaS. These surveys seldom seem to tell the whole story (although Forrester appears to have broken this one down into useful subcategories), so it is best to analyze them against the entirety of the information available, including anecdotal evidence.