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 →
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 →
Enomaly CEO Reuven Cohen makes the case that Cicso, VMWare , Enomaly and many other vendors are rolling out solutions to allow traditional hosting providers to become cloud infrastructure players. It makes sense - the old model of racks filled with your own servers, fixed monthly bandwidth and power charges, and late night trips to... Continue Reading →
Forrester analyst Chenxi Wang recently released a ereport titled "How Secure is Your Cloud?" This report seeks to highlight the increased risk that IT departments face when considering cloud infrastructures for their applications. "Cloud computing decouples data from infrastructure and obscures low-level operational details, such as where your data is and how it's replicated," Wang... Continue Reading →
Gartner analyst Lydia Leong was kind enough to respond to an email I sent her regarding this debate over Gartner's $46 billion cloud computing market. To be clear, I enjoy Ms. Leong's CloudPundit blog and generally believe that she gets cloud computing. She was kind enough to respond to my email with her thoughts up on... Continue Reading →
For those of you getting into the Cloud Computing world, the established hierarchy of the cloud these days is as follows: SaaS has been around for many years - first known as ASP (application service provider) in the 1990's. The most famous has been Salesforce.com's CRM/SFA application suite. In fact, any application delivered over the... Continue Reading →
As reported in Government Technology on May 1, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has moved the USA.gov information portal to a flexible cloud-based platform provided by Miami's Terremark Worldwide. [GSA acting associate administrator Martha] Dorris said the move will cut the portal's infrastructure costs by as much as 90 percent and improve its capabilities.... Continue Reading →
An intersting article from Reuters highlights a few of the companies receiving VC funding for cloud computing plays. There are several others, including some that are in stealth mode still. What does this mean? First, cloud computing is starting up the hype curve in a big way. Second, there are smart people building very valueable... Continue Reading →
(5/8 - Updated numbers below) At the Gartner Outsourcing and Vendor Management Summit in Las Vegas there was a substantial amount of discussion regarding the size of the market for Cloud Computing. Gartner pegs the 2008 number at a rather lofty $46 billion, going to $150 billion by 2013. I spoke with Gartner analyst Ben... Continue Reading →
Gartner looks at the 6 attributes listed above to define cloud computing. For me two key ones are elasticity and metering by usage. If you can scale up and down as you need the cloud, and pay accordingly, that's when the cloud computing model has the most value. They also see the cloud services... Continue Reading →
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