Whew!  The last few days have been very busy, but totally fun.  Last night we kicked off the first CloudCamp event for the Greater Boston area at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge.  If you have not been to this facility, you should check it out.  Microsft is being very generous with this for technology... Continue Reading →

I had a call with Nati Shalom, CTO of GigaSpaces this morning to discuss their announcement of their XAP (eXtreme Application Platform) 7.0 release.  XAP is like JBoss or WebSphere on steroids with lots of support for scaling out and leveraging today's multi-core server environment.  There are a lot of reasons why someone might want... Continue Reading →

There is a lot going on in the cloud related to database management systems (DBMS) these days, but I could not find a good roundup to reference - so here you go. For the purpose of this analysis, I divide cloud DBMS offerings into four categories based on whether or not they are "relational" and... Continue Reading →

Following Unisys' announcement on Wednesday regarding their cloud computing strategy (Unisys Moves to Break Through Barriers to Adoption of Cloud Computing) I had the opportunity to speak with Rich Marcello, president of Unisys Systems & Technology, and Sam Gross, VP of Unisys Global IT Outsourcing Solutions. What struck me was the coherence and clarity of... Continue Reading →