Posts Tagged ‘ cloud hosting ’

Enterprises: Top 5 Reasons not to use Cloud Computing

Apr 6th, 2009 | By Dave | Category: Industry Experts, Reviews

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 [...]



Cloud and IBM/Cisco’s Extensive Manifesto

Mar 30th, 2009 | By Dave | Category: Commentary

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 [...]



Parallels Day 2: Conference Sessions and Exhibits

Feb 5th, 2009 | By Dave | Category: Commentary, Conferences, Parallels Summit 2009

I got a chance to interview Jack Zubarev, President Service Provider Division of Parallels, and he told me that if you are loosing money or if your company is failing, the cloud is not going to fix the problem. I found this statement to be very satisfying because of how true it is. If your [...]



Parallels Day 1: Press Rooms and the Cloud

Feb 3rd, 2009 | By Dave | Category: Commentary, Conferences, Parallels Summit 2009

The Press Room made my cry. It was the single most beautiful thing I have seen in my 10 years of covering the Web host industry. Coffee, snacks, water, power sockets in the long table, coffee, comfy chairs, coffee, and did I mention comfy chairs? Journalist heaven, but I digress.
After a healthy breakfast (which sadly, [...]