Unlocking the Power of the Cloud for Application Development
Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing, Events, Skytap | No Comments »We talk to a lot of developers and architects about cloud computing, and one of the things that we run across from time-to-time is an element of skepticism due simply to the incredible amount of hype out there in the ...
The Cloud Wars: Who Will Win?
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing | 4 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 | 1 Comment »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 ...
Application Development and Eco-Efficient IT
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »There's been a lot of hype around the need for "Green IT" and how computing usage affects the environment. The 451 Group published an excellent report summarizing how IT impacts the environment and actually shows that IT's greenhouse-gas contributions are ...
On-Site vs. Cloud Blog Discussion
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing, News | No Comments »Dan Kusnetzky from ZDNet recently posted an article on his blog listing various vendors that provide test lab and IT prototyping functionality. It's an interesting debate and we're obviously big advocates of using a cloud-based service for a number of ...
