Here is a link. Worth a read if you are interested in what's going one with cloud storage (aka Storage as a Service). This is a market that IDC predicts will hit $3 billion by 2012. The paper was written by Storage Switzerland, but mentions by name only Bycast - so I assume it's a... Continue Reading →
Enterprise Cloud Summit (#ecs)- Monday Recap #2
There were several more great talks, demos and panels during the day. See Bitcurrent for good summaries of each one. Here are some additional bits. Peter Laird's talk on Taxonomies is a copy of the one he gave at Interop in NY this past Fall. Here is his blog post from September 2008. The vendor... Continue Reading →
Cross-Border Constraints on Cloud Computing
At the Enterprise Cloud Summit today at Interop, there were several examples given of constraints imposed by governments on where data and processes can reside. For example, Canadian government data cannot reside in the U.S. due to the Patriot Act. Similarly, the French government will not use Blackberry devices because at some point all emails... Continue Reading →
Enterprise Cloud Summit (#ecs) Connection Issues
I will post more updates later, but the connection here at the Enterprise Cloud Summit (#ecs) makes it hard for me to do full-length posts.
Enterprise Cloud Summit #ECS #Interop Live Blog
Seeing demo now of SOASTA CloudTest seening load test stats for the sample app that they have been working with at the conference. Panel led by Greg Ness from InfoBlox coming next... Panelists include Bill McGee from Third Brigade, Geva Perry of Thinking Out Cloud, and Randy Rowland of Terremark. Starting with "What types of cloud... Continue Reading →
Enterprise Cloud Summit – Morning Recap #1
This morning kicked off the Enterprise Cloud Summit @ Interop in Las Vegas. Allistair Croll from Bitcurrent is running the sessions today and started us off with a fairly interesting counterpoint to Nick Carr's assertion that computing is quickly morphing to a model analogous to an electric utility. His points about the dearth of standards... Continue Reading →
Clouds in Las Vegas, Prague and London – Call for Authors
This is a busy week for cloud computing conferences. If you are attending any of these conferences and want to submit stories to CloudBzz, contact us immediately. John Treadway will be at Interop and the Enterprise Cloud Summit in Las Vegas. May 18-19 Cloud Computing Expo, Prague May 18-21 Enterprise Cloud Computing Summit, Las Vegas... Continue Reading →
Forrester Advises Caution – Vendor Opportunity?
In a new report, "How secure is your cloud?," Forrester Research analyst Chenxi Wang cautions IT to fully evaluate security issues before moving to cloud deployment models. I won't recap the article here, but it goes over some fairly obvious information about the security implications of any new computing architecture. There are several vendors with... Continue Reading →
Purifying the Cloud
The "what is the cloud" debate continues unabated. I'm a bit of a purist on this issue and am actually going to contradict a bit of what I said in my earlier post "Clouds have Layers." If you think of it from the perspective of the application or a set of data (e.g. personify the... Continue Reading →
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