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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
It seems like everybody that has written about this report always starts with, “Glad that McKinsey did this report, BUT…” Given that enough people (i.e the industry at large) has said their thanks, lets focus on the issues:
- Most customers adopting cloud computing “hide” behind cost saving to “bypass” operations. Why? Because IT operations as [...]
I had a chance to connect with Dana Gardner recently. He has some really great insights into cloud computing and the enterprise. Dana is the president and principal analyst with Interarbor Solutions and writes for ZDNet on the cloud.
How will cloud computing affect business models of existing
enterprise computing vendors?
The impact of cloud use and [...]
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 [...]
Here at Sonoa we are in the API business – helping companies open and consume. Today is an API Revolution of sorts. So, the question we sometimes encounter is what’s an API and why should your company have one?
So why do you need an API? For one thing, everyone else is diving into the API [...]
I recently wrote a post for ebizQ on APIs as the key to cloud convergence, which discusses the convergence of two cloud models cropping up today – both the “outside-in” revenue and “inside-out” cost views from the cloud. More detail in the ebizQ piece.
When consuming or producing cloud services from the enterprise point of view, [...]
