Had lunch earlier this week with Bob Warfield from a company called Helpstream. Smart guy. He wrote a great piece this week on the 10 things his company no longer has to worry about now that they operate in the cloud.
Highlights include no longer worrying about server power consumption or load balancing. Bob also notes [...]
Have been hearing quite a bit about cloud portability recently. This also came up a recent panel at the SIIA NetGain conference. Here is my take:
- Customers think of information technology as a means to an end.
- When they are making IT related decisions (technology and vendor) they are generally making them for the long [...]
Robert Westervelt’s post on cloud security caught my eye – he talks about business execs putting the pressure on IT departments to “open the floodgates to the latest Web-based platforms, relaxing Web security policy.” Does this mean it’ll open the security floodgates in a dangerous way?
Yes, security is a concern when you move to the [...]
Read a recent article on Vishal’s talk at Interop – made interesting points that we agree on:
- Enterprise customers will claim that they have been doing private cloud computing. Have noticed that in our discussion w/ customers also. Even though this does fit w/ the virtualization part of the definition of privates clouds, it is [...]
Much discussion on blogshere on the public vs. private cloud debate. Good to see the discussion, but as Peter Galvin says – “opinions are inside the bldg, facts are outside.” So as always lets discuss this from a customer point of view.
Let me start by saying every customer that I have talked to in the [...]
A recent survey by Savvis showed that companies are looking to external IT resources to increase efficiency and shave costs. Savvis’ CTO, Bryan Doerr, best sums up the survey’s findings: “The survey confirms that organizations who outsource more IT infrastructure services are doing better than their counterparts by focusing IT resource on developing and managing [...]
Everyone’s been weighing in on yesterday’s Google outage experienced by 14% of their user base in Gmail, Google Search, Google Maps, Google Analytics, YouTube, Blogger and AdSense. Unfortunately outages do happen inside and outside the enterprise. Some are more visible than others. For all those cloud skeptics sitting on the side lines, saying “I told [...]
Read this post on why “Cloud Computing is Not Burger King.” It claims that cloud computing hasn’t reached a mature age where customization is possible. The author, Lori MacVittie, highlights control as the key aspect that is needed by IT departments in order to effectively customize the cloud — and says we aren’t there yet. [...]
Read a piece from Federal Computer Week about the U.S. government seriously considering cloud computing: the White House is encouraging the launch of pilot programs to test cloud computing for federal agencies. Very cool.
As they work through security, compliance type issues, this will make a GREAT success story – cloud computing is good enough to [...]
Read an article from Reuters yesterday about VC firms investing in the cloud. Interesting because VC belts are tighter than ever right now and whatever companies they invest in need to have real value. Startups that are getting funded are helping companies “add capacity and manage resources more efficiently.” Purse strings are tight and [...]
