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 [...]
Yesterday I took part in the cloud computing panel at SIIA NetGain with moderator John Blossom from Shore Communications. We discussed the concerns for companies moving business to the cloud.
Larry Schwartz, president of a company called Newstex, approaches the cloud with what he calls a “try first, justify second” approach. This might make sense, but [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
