| November 2009 - Cloud Computing Blog -
Most of us have had the experience of travelling to acountry where we can’t speak the language and trying to function. Except for a few words like “please,”“thank you” and “where is a restaurant” we are filled with a mix of excitement, uncertainly and confusion. That pretty much sums up where users are with respect tocloud computing services these days. The brochure looks great but what’s the reality? And while there the list ofuncertainties and questions is lengthy, one of the most basic issues... -
Any discussion of cloud computing has to acknowledge that on one hand, it holds huge promise while on the other hand, is possibly the most over-hyped technology trend to come down the pike in many a year. That aside, the potential to save costs and gain flexibility in offering new services is compelling. And between those two,my advice is to make the business case on the new service flexibility aspectsas most new technologies that promise significant costs savings end up not delivering on that promise... -
Was thumbing through a past issue of Network World and came upon a very good perspective on Cloud Computing. http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/091509antonopoulos.html -
By now, most everyone has heard the the City of LA has decided to replace much of it's Microsoft and Novell apps with Google Apps. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article6894607.ece While much of the talk has has centered around GMail, the deal in fact is much broader and encompasses all of the Google Apps that compete with Office and Novell's GroupWise. The most obvious issues involve security and quality of service and it's interesting to note... -
A new term has cropped up - Internal Cloud - which replaces the term Private Cloud. But whatever you call it, users are still peeling away the layers of the onion to understand exactly what a cloud environment means in terms of IT capabilities as well as benefits for users. As expected, it's a lot more complex than just hosting a virtual machine on a server and sooner or later, we have to start being more specific about what a cloud service is and what it isn't (today, almost every online... -
I defy anyone to read this and tell me the author isn't 10001% right. Go on - I dare you! http://telephonyonline.com/home/commentary/mobile-data-network-expansion-0908/ -
The speed at which Cloud computing has planted its feet firmly in the center stage of the IT and Communications world is quite interesting. It's not a technology play - in fact I would be hard pushed to identify a single piece of new technology that is fundamental to cloud. And unlike Twitter or Facebook it's not a social-psychology phenomenom in any real sense - there is no "man-in-the-street' movement that is driving the uptake or need for cloud computing. It is one of those rare... -
Over the past year or so, cloud computing has become all the rage. Everyone is talking about it as the next great hope for the IT industry in general and communications in particular. But I have to wonder if those who see cloud computing as a sort of miracle worker really know what it is. If you ask 10 people to supply a definition of cloud computing, you’ll likely get 10 divergent responses. But first things first – cloud computing is not a technology play - in fact I would be hard-pressed to identify... -
It should come as no surprise that security is the 800-pound gorilla in the room of cloud services for the larger companies. I wrote a few months ago ( Cloud Computing: Taking an Holistic View ) that the only way I could see public cloud failing is if there was a big security scare. True to form, at the recent Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas, a number of security researchers demonstrated new ways of attacking cloud computing services. Claims were made about how to hack through Amazon's... -
With interest in cloud computing at an all-time high, we have to wonder if this concept is truly revolutionary or simply the logical next step of trends that started decades ago. As someone who’s been in the industry for awhile, I can remember a time when even a technology-dependent institution like NASA simply didn’t have the processing power it required for all the complex calculations needed for the early days of the U.S. space program. It had to borrow this processing power from local universities...
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