Cloud computing has been heralded as a game changer. Today it will shine for game monitoring! Millions of hoops fans will obsessively check scores - and the inevitable damage dealt to their brackets by unforseen upsets - from phones, netbooks and workplace PCs worldwide. Long gone are the days when the office pool was scrawled in dusty whiteboard ink; subject to revisionism and outright vandalism by the vanquished. Services abound to automatically tally the winners and losers. Implacably, instantly
Great summary here by Geva Perry on his Thinking Out Cloud blog. Viewing the cloud through the very different yet overlapping lenses of technology context vs. business considerations. Good thoughts and links here on the strategic implications, inhibitors to adoption and roles of key players.
Cloud computing provides a cost-effective architecture that has enabled new business models including Platform-as-a-Service (Paas) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The financial crisis might spell good news for cloud providers up and down the stack. According recent articles , IDC predicts that the current economic crisis in the U.S. will contribute to cloud computing growth over the next five years and spending on IT cloud services will reach $42 billion by 2012. Frank Gens , senior vice president
Today marks the start of an important chapter in the unfolding story of cloud computing. Microsoft has entered the ranks of cloud platform service providers with the launch of Windows® Azure™ and the Azure Services Platform . Microsoft selected cloud-optimized Dell servers to power the Azure platform . Forrest Norrod, Vice President and General Manager of Dell's Data Center Solutions Division, took a moment to share his thoughts about the announcement in this video: [View:http://www
This week marks the first Cloud Summit , a new tradeshow from Techweb, so thoughts turn to the cloud ecosystem. As private cloud technologies begin to proliferate, an important thing to consider is the notion that developing applications to live within proprietary clouds may dilute or eliminate the very economic promise of the model. As we approach Halloween, vertically integrated cloud application stacks raise the terrifying specter of mainframe lock-in (or as recently suggested by this article
Last week’s comments from Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on the marketing buzz around cloud computing struck a chord with some, and reminded me of some of the attention drawn to Dell’s early adoption of the concept. While many in the industry are cloud washing nearly anything related to computing that involves the Internet, there remains a solid core of substance to the idea . And in many cases it's already here. Case-in-point, Steve Ballmer has been giving more detail about Microsoft’s