Enterprises of every size are moving applications and infrastructure to the cloud. Maintaining operational awareness is difficult enough within a single cloud…
Read MoreI am pleased to see that CA has acquired much of Cassatt’s intellectual property, as well as some of its key personnel.…
Read MoreI would love to question the accuracy of Cassatt’s survey results finding that respondents are less likely than last year to be…
Read MoreThe good news for popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter is that they keep on growing and keep on raising more money. The bad news is that continued growth means more money pumped into their infrastructures just to keep up. The real irony here is that, while social networks are cutting-edge web-based services, there is little symbiosis with the other cutting-edge web-based paradigm getting lots of attention lately: cloud computing. Social network sites can’t look to the cloud to help them solve their infrastructural woes.…
Read MoreThe rumor that Amazon will open source it’s Amazon Web Services API has big implications for the cloud space. If Amazon does,…
Read MoreContinuing with the week’s Google trend, this morning’s news of Google Apps Script signifies that Google really does get the difference between…
Read MoreLotsa Google in the news today. The Force.com-App Engine partnership with Salesforce.com is nothing really new — the two linked Force.com and…
Read MoreNews of Apple’s plans for a $1 billion data center to bolster its web applications coincides with Om’s GigaOM post about the…
Read MoreIt has been a rough week for the mighty Google, whose relatively brief outages have been analyzed at a level generally reserved for presidential elections – even bringing some conspiracy theories out of the woodwork. Not surprisingly, cloud computing as a paradigm continues to catch a lot of shrapnel from these attacks on Google. But if you ask me, that’s undeserved: Google’s basic suite of cloud services are not the equivalent of commercial-grade SaaS offerings, nor is Google’s underlying architecture a cloud of the ilk large companies would use, and they should not be talked about as such.…
Read MoreDerrick is still out for the long weekend, but I’ve been soliciting expert opinion on the news, so hopefully I’ll share some…
Read MoreDerrick Harris is traveling for the day, so I’m filling in for him. He pointed a few things before leaving (curating VMware…
Read MoreWe’ve been so brainwashed into believing Google is almighty that it’s quite a shock when exhibits fallibility — and a serious God…
Read MorePerhaps it’s because I’m relatively new to the field, but I am amazed at the uses companies are finding for social media…
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