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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Greg Brail from Sonoa does a great job in discussing the importance of cloud services in his latest blog post here. He talks about the elastic capabilities of cloud vs. Web services and why they’re good for business.
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 [...]
Julian Goldsmith wrote last week on a recent Silicon.com survey of CIOs about whether cloud computing is “part of their IT strategy to cut costs.” The majority of those surveyed said no, they are not looking to cloud computing to cut costs today. This resistance is to be expected and really comes as no surprise. [...]
David Linthicum wrote an interesting piece the other day about “What SOA Can Learn from Cloud Computing and Vice Versa.” He includes some valid points about what companies need to address when building out services for the cloud and how they can learn from SOA.
I agree with the need for what David calls “service expandability,” [...]
