With so much buzz about cloud-based products and services, how do you know what will work for you? Cloud products offer many practical benefits such as low entry costs and on-demand scalability, but choosing the right platform can be a daunting proposition. To better understand how customers approach the buying decision when considering cloud [...]
With the way conferences this year seems to be themed it would seem that everyone is jumping onboard the cloud computing bandwagon. And why wouldn’t they? The ability to have your data hosted from multiple points allows for the perfect fail safe. If one area dies another is there to pick up the slack, if [...]
A declaration of principles and intentions is the definition of a manifesto and the Open Cloud Manifesto was definitely following that definition to a T.
What I find funny is the Open Cloud Manifesto was not really open. It didn’t really start open and its not really open to the major cloud players at the moment [...]
This year’s Parallels Summit kicked off at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year’s Summit built upon as well as surpassed last year’s attendance records.
More than 1,000 attended this year’s Summit hailing from more than 60 countries. The amount of software vendors increased five-fold from 2008, with slightly more than [...]
According to Evans Data Corporation (otherwise known as EDC), roughly half of the developers in a recent study have said that they are either currently working on or will work on a SaaS project within the next year.
*cue Imperial March*
The survey is a global survey and the largest area for SaaS adoption lies [...]
With all the new technologies out and coming out
There are many new technologies being talked about, cloud computing, virtualization, virtual operating systems, hypervisors, virtual desktops, the list goes on. What does it all mean and how will it affect you?
If the goal is an online operating system, then we are seeing the middle stages happening [...]
Part 2 of my interview of Michael van Dijken and John Zanni of Microsoft from Hostingcon 2008.