Advanced Cloud

I originally wrote this article for focus.com New cloud technology is here. Microsoft is ‘all in,’ Google always has been and what remains of IBM is plowed into cloud services through LotusLive. Independents like Cobweb and Rackspace (who provide 1.7 million business users with cloud email and storage) have been making large amounts out of [...]

Learn about the valuable lessons IBM has learned as we have worked with customers over the past nine months on cloud computing initiatives. These insights are designed to help you understand some of the challenges and help you outline the criteria/service levels you should be asking your cloud service provider about. &nbsp1  1     [...]

Why would you choose to develop new applications using the cloud services model? There are several good reasons to do—and a few reasons to be, perhaps,a bit more cautious. Advantages of Cloud Development One of the underlying advantages of cloud development is that of economy of scale. By taking advantage of the infrastructure provided by a [...]

Sun Microsystems’s slogan is “The network is the computer,” and that’s as good as any to describe how cloud computing works. In essence, a network of computers functions as a single computer to serve data and applications to users over the Internet. The network exists in the “cloud” of IP addresses that we know as the Internet, offers massive computing power and storage capability, and enables widescale group collaboration. But that’s the simple explanation. Let’s take a look at how cloud computing works in more detail.

During IBM’s Q3 earnings call a few weeks ago, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge highlighted business analytics as a sector where Big Blue is investing significant amounts of cash. The company recently acquired data analytics company SPSS for $1.2 billion and business analytics firm RedPill. Tonight, IBM is unveiling a new internal analytics product that the [...]

Sharepoint is the big giant in the enterprise collaboration space. Salesforce.com is now in the market with Salesforce Chatter, a service that embraces Facebook, Twitter and the applications within Force.com. MindTouch has the potential to compete with the large market players. Today they are announcing MindTouch Cloud, an open-source, SaaS service that integrates business data [...]

Cloud Computing and its related initiatives (Virtualization, SaaS, Grid, SOA, Web 2.0 / WOA) hold tremendous potential for modern enterprises. This e-zine will aim to explore the economics of Cloud, the business implications for various industries, and the technology enablers that make Cloud Computing a reality. read more &nbsp1  1        

Glenn Brunette, Chief Distinguished Engineer and Chief Security Architect for Sun Microsystems, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Security is consistently rated as a leading customer concern impeding the full scale adoption of Cloud Computing. At the same time, [...]

RightScale, the cloud manager, has integrated its platform with New Relic’s real-time RPM Ruby-on-Rails application performance management software. So RightScale users should be able to detect, diagnose, and fix performance problems with their cloud-borne Rails applications. CEO Michael Crandell says, “Ruby on Rails has always been one of the most popular development frameworks for web [...]

In a follow up to my October 23rd post on Arista Networks attempting to copyright / trademark the term “Cloud Networking” The companies CEO Jayshree Ullal has stated that they will no longer be attempting to trademark the term. (Mission accomplished). In a recent post she shed some light on the topic saying “It has [...]