Sizing up any Cloud Solution
The cloud’s capacity will always be limited and constrained by bandwidth along all legs of that connection between the user, the datacenter, and whatever else is involved (the user’s other PCs, etc.);...
View ArticleAs long as Dropbox, Netflix, Reddit, etc. make money, Amazon makes money.
It’s now all about infrastructure. The software bigwigs used to develop programming tools. Thin of Microsoft in the 1990s with its Visual Studio. Think of Sun and Java. Oracle. Image Source: VNTT But...
View ArticleIn Greenpeace’s Crosshairs: Cloud Technology
Perhaps these are preemptive hearts-and-minds campaign by some of the biggest names in cloud technology, but Google’s touting its Green feats; so is Microsoft. Image Source: Digital Trends The latest...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s HealthVault: Medical and Health Data in the Cloud
I recently revisited my Microsoft HealthVault account to find it—well, still alive at least. Recall that on January 1, 2012, Google Health officially closed. They claimed that the reason for shutting...
View ArticleTakeaway points from the Greenpeace Memo, “How Clean Is Your Cloud?”
In April 2012, the environmental advocacy group, Greenpeace, published a memo and study that found that most cloud technology companies have committed to rapid expansion plans, without—as the document...
View ArticleQuantity-over-Quality versus Quality-over-Quantity
In May 2012, Wired’s Cloudline regurgitated a news release for IBM (who sponsors the blog—surprise, surprise) about how great IBM’s cloud offerings are. The gist of it is that IBM contends that it’s a...
View ArticleKnowledge in them thar clouds?
It’s clear that Google sees the writing on the wall: keyword based search is simplistic, and gaming search is way too easy, when you weigh so heavily on mere links, keywords, language, etc. Image...
View ArticleOracle’s True Intentions about an Honest to Goodness Cloud Offering Isn’t Clear
Oracle is a business from the 1980s and early 1990s, an era in which it and Microsoft ruled supreme. You can tell by the way it’s adjusting to the inherently different game that is the cloud these...
View ArticleIs consumerization leading to less secure enterprises?
The allusion in this article over at Cloudline is that the consumerization of IT via the cloud for the most (by way of products and services such as Dropbox) open enterprises up to security holes. All...
View ArticleSymantec and Microsoft’s “Disaster Recovery as a Service”
The other day, there was what essentially amounted to a press release article on eWeek that announced another partnership offering between Symantec and Microsoft. Mo' services, mo' problems: as...
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