December, 2010
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Forward March: About the Cloud
In a recent feature in Redmond Channel Partner magazine, Microsoft Partner executives and industry experts offer some “Marching Orders” for Microsoft Partners in 2011. Not surprisingly, most of these orders center around, or at the very least touch on, cloud concepts. Here’s a key quote from each: Jon Roskill, Corporate VP of Microsoft Worldwide Partner [...]
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New Net Neutrality Rules: A Case of “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?”
GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham wrote a great commentary yesterday on the complete first set of “net neutrality” rules, released last week by the FCC. Read the full article here. To quote the article: The New FCC order enshrines three principles as the framework for implementing network neutrality: -transparency for fixed and mobile broadband providers -no blocking [...]
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Time to Lay Off The Cheetos: Can Cloud Computing Save The World?
Roger Strukhoff published a disquieting article yesterday in the Cloud Computing Journal titled “Cloud or No Cloud, the US is Doomed.” He predicts that the US economy won’t really be bouncing back any time soon, and cites some unhealthy economic habits as reasons that “the US economy will slow again in 2012… struggle to reach [...]
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HP Labs On “Everything-as-a-Service”
The team at HP Labs recently published a tech report paper titled “The Future of Cloud Computing: An HP Labs Perspective.” The paper centers not only on the technical aspects of cloud computing, but also on the business case; the “why” behind the cloud. As you read the paper you’ll notice that HP seems to [...]
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What Does The SBS 2011 Release Have To Do With The Cloud? Listen to The Weather Report Podcast to Find Out!
Join Kate Hunt, along with special guests Susan Bradley (The SBS Diva) and Amy Babinchak (of Harbor Computer Services and Third Tier), for this next installment of The Weather Report, as we discuss the release of Microsoft’s latest SBS offering. Actually it’s two offerings, SBS 2011 Standard and SBS 2011 Essentials, which is expected to [...]
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South Korean Defense Ministry Testing the Cloud
A Seoul-based computer services company called SK C&C started building out a cloud computing system in September for the Ministry as a “trial.” In a government-wide effort to cut costs and increase security, the ministry will evaluate the trial and make a decision about whether to expand cloud computing into other networks in the ministry. [...]
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Mark Crall: “Autotask is a new company in 2011.”
There’s been quite a bit of rumor and speculation lately about changes happening over at Autotask. In just the past week or so, CEO Bob Godgart moved into the Chief Visionary Officer position. They hired a new CEO and two new Vice Presidents, with a new CFO to be named soon. We’ve also seen some [...]
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IBM Building Private Cloud for NATO…Plus Much More Cloud Adoption Looming on the Horizon
Yet another high profile organization moves into the cloud: International Business Machines Corp (IBM) is set to build out a cloud-computing system for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which will be managed by IBM from within NATO’s Norfolk base. As reported on Bloomberg.com: “The software and hardware will let NATO more quickly collect and analyze [...]
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What Does the US Government’s “Cloud First” IT Policy Really Mean?
Dan Lohrmann of www.govtech.com wrote a great piece last week explaining what our government’s shift to shared computing resources really means to us. There’s no need to mince words here: Cloud is the new normal. For all of us. With the GSA’s recent decision to move to a web-based email system, and the USDA’s 120,000 [...]
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ExchangeDefender Launches Three New Messaging Products For 2011
ExchangeDefender Empowers IT Solution Providers with More Options for Delivering Email Services December 21, 2010 Own Web Now Corp announces the launch of three new products based on the award-winning ExchangeDefender platform: ExchangeDefender Managed Messaging, ExchangeDefender Essentials and CloudBlock. ExchangeDefender is launching these new products and expanding its support teams to help address a wider [...]
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CNet’s Top 12 Gifts of Cloud from 2010
In this great CNet Article from yesterday, James Urquhart breaks down the Top 12 cloud computing innovations and announcements from this year that had an impact on our industry. I think you’ll find that Number 6, the definition of Cloud Economics, is one of the more relevant points. Research and analysis this year finally established [...]
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Cisco Playing “Arms Supplier” in Cloud Race
With the new VCE Coalition formed last year to aid interoperability and integrate next-gen data center technologies, many have expected Cisco to roll out a cloud or hosting solution. On the other hand, Cisco claims no such intentions. Cisco’s Cloud CTO Lew Tucker says “Cisco’s motto is to be the arms supplier” in this cloud [...]
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FCC To Vote Tuesday on “Internet Road Rules”
Read the Full Article here The Federal Communications Commission will vote tomorrow on a plan devised by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. The plan seeks to ban high-speed internet providers from blocking lawful traffic while also acknowledging the ISPs’ needs to manage congestion and charge customers based on actual usage. In what basically boils down to [...]
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Is iPad a Person?
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry wrote an interesting piece Saturday on www.businessinsider.com about what he calls a very annoying marketing gimmick employed by Apple: referring to their products as people rather than objects (grammatically speaking.) This would be “iPad does” instead of “the iPad does.” But why? Gobry contends that in fact the message from Apple is about [...]
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Newsmaker of The Year: Cloud Computing
www.itbusiness.ca reports on an IDC Canada finding, that the small business market is the fastest adopters of cloud computing solutions today. While North America as a whole is still in “early adopter” stage with cloud computing, but the clear benefits and savings are grabbing marketshare quickly. “As-A-Service” Offerings provide flexibility and predictability for changing business [...]
