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 Big news on the Cloud Standards front, I was just informed that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) - JTC 1 have formed a new Subcommittee (SC) at their Plenary last week that includes worki...Nov. 7, 2009 03:30 PM EST Reads: 284 |
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 The Cloud Computing Conference and Expo in Santa Clara has come to an end, leaving a fair share of opinion, skepticism, and robust discussion for the period of incubation leading up to the next conference. Many companies have adopted “Cloud-something or other” as their new name, and a...Nov. 6, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 451 |
 The talk at the Cloud Computing Expo this week in Santa Clara was all about enterprise cloud adoption. Is it real? Is it already happening? If so, who’s doing it, which applications are they running and which clouds are being tested? To a large extent, cloud computing is a victim of it...Nov. 6, 2009 12:00 PM EST Reads: 435 |
 Here is my initial thought: are you kidding me ? David's theory is that the adoption of Cloud Computing would be far more "acceptable" (aka politically correct) if we didn't have executives like Unisys's Richard Marcello saying: "We were able to eliminate a whole bunch of actually U.S....Nov. 5, 2009 03:30 PM EST Reads: 322 |
 Worldwide spending on data center technology infrastructure and services exceeds $350 billion annually, according to McKinsey and Company estimates, with half of that spent on capital expenses and half on operating expenses. Nov. 5, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 326 |
 Infrastructure 2.0, from a purely developmental standpoint, is about APIs. It’s about offering up the functionality and capabilities of a wide variety of infrastructure – network, storage, and application network – to be externally controlled, integrated, and leveraged for whatever pur...Nov. 5, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 429 |
 The SMS message was desperate. AJ sent the plea “If I have to see one more picture of a cloud in a PPT I might lose it…” After two days of presentations at the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo, where companies tried to bring the audience up to an Intro to Clouds 101 level, some at...Nov. 4, 2009 12:00 PM EST Reads: 478 |
 With just a few clicks you, too, can create a cloud computing environment. But if you’re like a lot of organizations, you may not know what to do with it after that. The latest version of Ubuntu Server (9.10) includes the Ubunt... Nov. 4, 2009 11:45 AM EST Reads: 771 |
 Day One of the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo is in full swing. First off, it took me nearly 30 minutes to find parking. For some reason the top level of the parking structure of the Santa Clara Convention Center was closed off. Not sure why. Then I walked through the San Jose Hya...Nov. 3, 2009 11:15 AM EST Reads: 398 |
 This time AWS has done it right. The Relational Database Servers in AWS called "RDS" are the "Real Thing". I just transferred over my whole Drupal DB in a few moments to an RDS Instance. Is was very simple. Let me show you the one line command solution.Nov. 2, 2009 10:00 AM EST Reads: 417 |
 Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Backup 1.3 and later. CloudBerry S3 Backup is a powerful Windows backup and restore that automate backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage. In this post we will try to explain you how to configure purging options and why you need the...Nov. 1, 2009 12:55 PM EST Reads: 230 |
 As mentioned in my previous blog post, you don't get full designer support on SQL Azure within SQL Server Management Studio. In addition, you don't get designer support for LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework, either. So what ...Oct. 31, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 595 |
 Data center selection is an exercise in compromise. Everybody would like to have the best of all worlds, with a highly connected facility offering 24x7 smart hands support, impenetrable security, protection from all natural and man-made disasters, in addition to service level agreemen...Oct. 30, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 467 |
 As the need for realtime analytics grows we will continue to see a migration away from databases and towards more scalable parallel dataflow architectures for analytics. For twenty years, analytics has been viewed as just one specific area within the broader relational database industr...Oct. 29, 2009 04:34 PM EDT Reads: 493 |
 Describing today’s enterprise IT environment as “complex” would be a gross understatement all things considered. The intricate model needed to support day-to-day business operations boggles the mind, with much of the complexity attributed to evolving applications, and the way people us...Oct. 29, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 405 |
 Google has certainly been busy building a lot of different software tools that can be used for collaboration, including Google Docs, Google Voice, Google Sites (formerly Jotspot) and Google Calendar. But there are a number of specialized tools that are more useful than these Google ser...Oct. 29, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 827 |
 Have we reached the point where email’s influence over our electronic lives is waning? It is hard to imagine, especially for those of us who grew up in the minicomputer/PC era. For two generations, email was the killer application. It delivered information reliably and within a few min...Oct. 29, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 891 |
 So after the long and torturous wait, you're now in the SQL Azure CTP and you are ready to get the ball rolling with your fabulous, shiny new cloud-based SQL database server. Now what? Well, the first thing you're going to need to do is create a database. To do that, y... Oct. 29, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 440 |
 As Cloud Sherpas continues to help businesses and organizations adopt Google Apps, we have found that many customers, regardless of location or industry, request a common set of additional management controls and end user features for their Google Apps environment. Until now, the respo...Oct. 29, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 340 |
 Microsoft cannot sleep comfortably. There is assault from all flanks- be it mobile, be it OS, be it the venerable Office, almost anything one can think of. Now SQL Azure has a competitor. Oct. 29, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 430 |
 The result is BSMReview.com, a site which seeks to analyze the best and next practices in business service management from a third-party point of view. The experts that Bill has brought to the site are literally a who's who of the best and most trusted people in the field: Peter Armstr...Oct. 29, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 432 |
 Cloud computing is, at its core, about using resources in the most operational and financially efficient manner possible. It’s about spreading resources around and sharing them to achieve greater scalability with fewer investments in hardware and software. But what if you aren’t mov... Oct. 29, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 381 |
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 The recent announcement from Amazon of the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) represents the next big advance in the evolution chain for cloud computing. Enterprises can now integrate their IT infrastructure with Amazon's vast computing and storage ... Oct. 29, 2009 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 620 |
 Congratulations to Pierre-Jose Billotte for the successful launch of EuroCloud !
Established as a pan European network, EuroCloud are communities that represent a knowledgeable network of companies engaged local and European activities related to SaaS and cloud computing.
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 Welcome to our enterprise cloud computing blog where we'll share our perspectives on cloud computing trends and best practices for the enterprise. We're a team with extensive experience in IT software and systems (learn more about us), and we're passionate about the opportunity that cl...Oct. 28, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 432 |
 Many IT managers would love to move some of their applications out of the enterprise data center and into the cloud. It's a chance to eliminate a whole litany of costs and headaches: in capital equipment, in power and cooling, in administration and maintenance. Instead, just pay as you...Oct. 28, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 298 |
 Over the past several years, many IT departments have committed to virtualization as an antidote to the spiraling costs and inflexibility plaguing corporate data centers everywhere. By running applications on virtual servers and consolidating underutilized hardware, data centers can ge...Oct. 28, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 400 |
 In the most difficult economic climate in decades, CIOs are reevaluating their strategies and looking for new ways to reduce data center costs and overhead while improving responsiveness to business requirements. Cloud computing has emerged as a much more agile and efficient approach t...Oct. 28, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 396 |
 The cloud computing landscape is evolving rapidly, with more and more players introducing cloud products and services of all kinds. Most recently we’ve seen the announcements by VMware partners including Terremark, BlueLock and others, as well as the introduction of Rackspace’s Cloud S...Oct. 28, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 704 |
 Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an effective framework for implementing services as well as service consumers. Whenever you deal with WCF communication objects you need to pay attention to the disposal of the resources that these objects hold. However, these dispo...Oct. 28, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 553 |
 After several years of companies industry-wide combining Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM), the results are mixed. Some companies have had substantial benefits moving to SOA, while others have had average results. All these companies used the app...Oct. 28, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 665 |
 The Department of Defense (DoD) leadership understands the importance of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), Cloud computing, Software as a Service (SaaS), and other emerging technological methodologies, standards, and practice. Historically, information has been restricted to small...Oct. 28, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 824 |
 Today Amazon released its answer to SQL Azure, the hosted cloud database offered by Microsoft. The newest service form Amazon, the Amazon Relational Database Service, or Amazon RDS for short, now in beta, makes it easier for you to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in th...Oct. 28, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 496 |
 This post is part of a series examining the issues involved when moving applications between internal data centers and public clouds. The true challenges in storage and data management in the cloud result from the diverse and often unfamiliar processes and infrastr... Oct. 28, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 534 |
 Moore's Law states that computer system performance/price ratio will double every two years. And that was very much my expectation when Good Data started using Amazon Web Services almost 2 years ago. But I had to wait until today to see Moore’s Law at work: Amazon announced 15% d...Oct. 28, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 378 |
 I have been so busy getting ramped up on GoodData that I haven’t had a minute to post here in over a week. On Friday, I am headed out toOct. 28, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 355 |
 There is little doubt that cloud computing is big news, but who is gaining your mind share? Amazon, NetSuite, and Salesforce.com, have been in the news recently with a number of announcements. So many that I’ve been attempting to track them by creating specific journals for each. Our ...Oct. 28, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 654 |
 Today I am delighted to introduce Mr. Rick Gordon, Managing Director at the Civitas Group, as Competitive Business Innovation’s first guest blogger. I am honored to have him blogging with us.
The Civitas Group is a consulting firm specializing in the field of homeland and natio...Oct. 27, 2009 04:16 PM EDT Reads: 224 |
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