2010 Cloud Computing Predictions: The Year of Realism
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »2010 Cloud Computing Predictions: The Year of Realism The buzz around cloud computing reached fever pitch this year, culminating in Gartner placing cloud computing at the peak of its hype cycle in July. We saw controversy around the Open Cloud Manifesto, the federal government ...
Are All Clouds Equal and Ready for Enterprise IT Workloads?
Monday, November 9th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »Lots of enterprises are evaluating external clouds, such as Skytap and Amazon EC2, to off-load their dynamic IT workloads. Top candidates include dev/test, IT prototyping and application migration environments. These can account for 35% or more of IT infrastructure and ...
Our View on the Open Cloud Manifesto
Monday, March 30th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »The Open Cloud Manifesto was released today to a flurry of comment and criticism from the media, including GigaOm, eWeek, ZDnet, and others. This comes after last week’s post from Microsoft, complaining about the closed nature of the manifesto’s development. ...
Gartner Says Cloud Application Infrastructure Technologies Need Seven Years to Mature
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »Gartner issued a press release predicting the 3 phases of evolution for cloud computing. In the first phase, pioneers and trailblazers, Gartner predicts successful vendors will focus on rapid-application-development-oriented tools and solutions where return on investment can be acquired within ...
The Cloud Wars: Who Will Win?
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »Today, Microsoft announced its Windows Azure cloud computing offering, further validating the market for cloud-based platforms. Given the multitude of major players in this market, including Amazon and Google, and the speed of innovation, we should see some major advances ...
What is Infrastructure-as-a-Service?
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »Wikipedia defines Infrastructure-as-a-Service as 'the delivery of computer infrastructure (typically a platform virtualization environment) as a service'. I believe we’ll see an evolution of offerings that build on the IaaS category. The two leading use cases right now are app/web site ...
451 Report on Cloud Computing
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »William Fellows, a Principal Analyst, at 451 Group has just published a report on Cloud Computing. It's one of the better reports I've seen and well worth a read (you can purchase it here). William defines clouds as having the following ...
Barriers to cloud computing adoption
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing, Skytap | No Comments »Despite all the benefits of cloud computing, there are some barriers to adoption. A recent panel on cloud computing at Interop 08 in Las Vegas, highlighted security and interoperability with in-house systems as key concerns for enterprises considering cloud computing. This ...
The benefits of cloud computing
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »So, what are the benefits of cloud computing and why are organizations adopting these services? First and foremost for many is potential cost reduction and amortization. With a cloud computing solution, the customer does not have a big upfront capital ...
Behind the buzz – what is cloud computing?
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing, Skytap | No Comments »Why the buzz? There is an incredible buzz around cloud computing recently, with major articles in Business Week, InfoWorld, CIO.com and numerous other publications, blogs and analyst reports. Nicholas Carr has written a bestselling book on the topic called "The Big ...
