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 [...]
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. [...]
Tim Madewell is VP of operations at Innotas, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of project portfolio management. Innotas addresses issues of visibility, access control, compliance and performance for enterprise customers and hybrid apps to differentiate its service and provide competitive advantage. He recently sat down with us to discuss how Sonoa helps him with security, [...]
Had a great conversation earlier this week with Bob Scheier. He’s currently writing a series on cloud computing for InfoWorld – his piece from last week about CTOs managing the cloud was really thought provoking and on-target for what we’ve been talking about here on Edge of the Cloud.
From the article: “Not all compute clouds [...]
Michael Richardson, CTO at a company called SelectMinds, is doing some innovative things in the enterprise social computing space today. He and I fleshed out some thoughts on this topic in a piece that was published today in ZDNet. We discuss how social computing can help your company innovate and why you should jump in. [...]
I recently sat down with my friend Aaron Smith to get his thoughts on the business benefits of APIs. You can read more of Aaron’s thoughts on APIs here.
What do you see as the business benefits of APIs?
Just like every business has its own processes and revenue models, not all will benefit from APIs in [...]
