The last year I wrote quite a few posts on the business models around SaaS and cloud computing including SaaS 2.0, disruptive early stage cloud computing start-ups, and branding on the cloud. This year people have started asking me …
As cloud computing evolves, its becoming clear that there will be just as much, if not more, incompatibility in the cloud as in on-premise applications today. C.
Cloud computing is not a new concept, as it was once known as SaaS. However, the concept is being implemented in a whole new way.
Today I had the pleasure of presenting on cloud computing in libraries in Copenhagen to the IT-faggruppen interest group of the The Danish Librarian (Workers) Union. It was a great all-day conference dedicated to cloud computing topics. …
Cloud Computing was viewed through the lens of reducing complexity and cost within data centers at a recent event in Toronto, during which IBM Canada’s Jim Elliott proclaimed Linux as cloud’s “past, present, and future. …
With private clouds, the IT providers can make elementary changes internally in how their IT infrastructure is deployed and run to get the benefits of cloud.
This white paper from CloudSwitch explores how companies overcome barriers to cloud security.
“Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud computing‘ was coined,” said Fuat Kircaali, founder and CEO of SYS-CON Events. “Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing’ and ‘software’ in two short years, …
However, those assumptions are no longer appropriate in a cloud computing world. As I explored in the first part of this post, cloud computing will alter even disrupt IT operations practices. The resources on-demand nature of …
Cloud computing network architecture is increasingly moving toward a flat, leaf-spine topology that enables both reduced latency and the ability to balance bandwidth, providing any-to-any connectivity within and between servers.


