Cutting Through the Cloud Hype: Talking With Micro Focus

Mark Haynie, CTO for Application Modernization and Cloud Computing for Micro Focus gives an excellent explanation on which applications are right for the cloud, along with does it make sense to test applications in the cloud. Read the transcript here or listen to the 24 minute podcast.

Hybrid Cloud Startup Gets Funds

"The cloud operating system startup Nimbula, which came out of the stealth mode in June, has raised $15 million in second round of venture capital funding, bringing the total amount to over $20 million. ... According to Nimbula, the new funding will be used to develop hybrid cloud computing technologies, as well as to drive the adoption of the company’s product offerings for the management of on- and off-premises infrastructure." Read the rest here.

IaaS Isn't Just Cloud Computing Fluff: Survey

"In its report, "Is IaaS Moving Beyond Just Cloud Fluff?," which is part of its "Anywhere Enterprise: 2010 U.S. Cloud Computing FastView Survey," Yankee Group found that 24 percent of large enterprises with cloud experience are already using IaaS, and another 37 percent expect to adopt IaaS within the next 24 months." Read the rest here and more here.

AFCOM Releases Cloud Computing Guide

"Based on AFCOM's 2009/2010 Data Center Trends Survey, only 14.9% of all large-scale data centers worldwide had implemented any form of Cloud Computing as of September, 2009; however, it is the collective opinion of the Data Center Institute, that the next five years will see the adoption of Cloud Computing grow dramatically, and that its impact on data center management will be felt throughout the industry." Buy the report here.

Comparing the Cost of Cloud vs. Colocation

"Is colocation cheaper than using a cloud computing services to run the same workload?" Read the article here.

CA Technologies Acquires Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure Consulting Firm

"As part of its continued investment in virtualization and cloud management, CA Technologies today announced the acquisition of privately-held 4Base Technology, a virtualization and cloud infrastructure consulting firm. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed." Press release is here. Host.Net provides all that under one roof plus the transit, too.

Startup Taps Grid Computing For High-Performance Security

"Unified threat management (UTM) has been aimed primarily at SMBs and branches offices, largely because of performance issues. UTM appliances often struggle when running multiple security applications in high-traffic environments. Newcomer Red Lambda has a novel approach to this problem: grid computing. The company believes it can scale up security performance using an enterprise's own computing resources. The software-based product, FireGrid, leverages unused computing capacity to deliver application firewall, intrusion detection/prevention, anomaly detection and application-based traffic shaping at 10Gbit/sec speed, Red Lambda claims." Read the rest of the grid computing for security article.

Tech Watch: Vaporising cloud confusion

"The cloud is confusing. To me, that's a very strange statement to be making. As a journalist I find myself writing about the cloud every second day (or at least that’s how it feels). However, from a customer perspective, it’s still a buzz word..... Of course, from Salesforce’s perspective, there’s no need for a private cloud at all, and the industry would be much clearer if there was just the one type of cloud being pushed." Read the rest here.

LinkedIn Snaps Up SaaS Player mSpoke

"LinkedIn, the leading social network for professionals, has shelled out to acquire mSpoke, a firm specializing in a cloud-based recommendation engine to help surface more relevant content." Read the rest here.

How Big is Amazon’s Cloud Computing Business?

"It goes without saying that with its array of web services, Amazon has transformed the computing landscape and nurtured what is generically known as the cloud computing industry. By turning expensive storage and computing hardware into a billable service, it has opened up new vistas for entrepreneurs and made corporations rethink how they build and use their computing and storage resources. The question often people ask: How much money is Amazon making from these web services? I’ve heard some wild estimates." Read the rest.

Six Questions to Ask Before Jumping Into A Cloud

"MSPmentor talks a lot about the power, promise, and perils of the cloud. But how can you know when it’s the right time to make the jump to SaaS? Solutions provider Logicalis has six questions MSPs can ask to help make that decision. They’re worth a read."

6 Questions For Accenture's Cloud Computing Captain

"Accenture has a multi-pronged plan of attack for cloud computing. The New York-based solution provider is attacking the cloud on several fronts, whether it's from strategy, consulting, systems integration or its own brand of software, Accenture has a cloud offering for all clients....But along with making it perfectly clear what it is in the cloud, Accenture is also quite clear on what it's not:" read the rest.

Colocation for the Changing Cloud

"Cloud computing is widely acknowledged as the major force driving IT into the future. International Data Corporation (IDC) has predicted that spending on cloud services is set to increase from $16.2 billion in 2008 to $42 billion by 2012. (1) But as the cloud revolution continues, companies need to consider how they’re going to update their IT infrastructures to prepare for this growth." Read the rest of the article here.

Accounting in the Clouds: Is it all Hype?

Accounting software is already available via SAAS. QB Online, FreshBooks and others have been offering an online version for a while. Read the article here.

Why Most Cloud Contracts Shouldn’t Be Negotiable

"This week brought news that pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has ended its use of Amazon EC2 because of an inability to negotiate contractual liability with Amazon Web Services in the case of outages or data breaches." Read the rest here.

Memo to Channel Partners: How to Avoid Cloud FUD

"Everywhere you look these days, there’s news about cloud computing — new applications, services, how the cloud will revolutionize IT, ways the cloud will help channel partners. The topics are dizzying and endless. But amid the clamor a few illuminating truths stand out for channel partners. There are plenty of opportunities ahead. There’s also plenty of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt). Here’s how to tell one from the other." Read the rest of the article here.

Cloud Computing key benefits

"Like any good consultant or analyst, you can summarize the key benefits in three easy statements: 1) cost, 2) computing on-demand or scalability, and 3) access to expertise on virtualization and technology." Read the rest of Dan Ruggles post about the benefits of cloud computing here. (The risks are here).

Cloud computing key risks

"For every positive benefit there is almost always a negative to compensate for rapid adoption based on wild enthusiasm. Cloud computing has a number of key risks." Read the rest here.

SaaS Revenue to Surpass $8.5 Billion This Year

"Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue within the enterprise application software market is forecast to surpass $8.5 billion in 2010, up 14.1 percent from 2009 revenue of $7.5 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The rapid adoption of SaaS has contributed to growth in varying degrees across the enterprise software markets. There will be a shift in total SaaS revenue from just over 10 percent of the combined markets in 2009, to more than 16 percent of these combined markets in 2014." It's all about the economic benefits of SaaS. Read the rest at Gartner.

Cloud Computing in Perspective

Cloud Computing in Perspective by CircleID

Corporate America, You’re Not Ready for Internal Clouds!

"Most companies that want the scalability and cost advantages of running an internal cloud aren’t prepared to make the shift, according to a report issued by Forrester Research." Read Stacey from GigaOm's take.

Global Market for Enterprise Cloud Based Services to Grow to US 35.6 million by 2015: Report

"The global market for enterprise cloud-based services is expected to grow from $12.1 billion in 2010 to $35.6 billion in 2015, according to a latest report from Analysys Mason." Read the rest at TMC.

Cloud Computing Frenzy Recalls Y2K

"There's no shortage of hype surrounding the migration to the cloud, where businesses are moving their IT infrastructure to increase efficiency and save costs. But what about the security, privacy and other concerns that come in tow?" Read the rest here.

SMB Virtualization Alters the Channel Partner Landscape

"Research group AMI-Partners has issued a report that finds U.S. SMBs are quickly adopting virtualization technologies, which impacts their entire infrastructure. As logical partitioning of resources extends to the SMBs' IT equipment, particularly servers, these customers require a different set of skills from their channel partners." Read the rest here.

Virtual Private Clouds

Processor magazine looks at Virtual Private Clouds as they extend the Enterprise Data Centers into the Cloud. Read it here.

The Open Standards Open Source Cloud

FastCompany article about the open-source solution for cloud computing, so that folks can host their own clouds.

Rights and Responsibilities for Cloud Computing Services

"All cloud services customers should have some basic rights to protect their interests, and Gartner, Inc.'s Global IT Council for Cloud Services has defined six rights and one responsibility of service customers that will help providers and consumers establish and maintain successful business relationships." Read the six rights and one responsibility of cloud computing services that it believes will enable providers and consumers to work more productively together.

Cloud Computing Videos

From Data Center Knowledge, videos about Cloud Computing. For example, What is Cloud Computing?

IT Execs Increasingly Confident in the Private Cloud

"Is a better understanding of private cloud services enough to spur user adoption? Maybe, according to a benchmark survey of IT executives taken at Platform Computing's International Supercomputing Conference last June. Although demand for such services clocked in at the same figure as the year before –28 percent – the executives polled by the London-based cluster, grid and cloud management software vendor indicated a different set of primary reasons to initiate deployments. This in turn may be a sign not only of growing awareness for private clouds, but also a deeper understanding of their benefits and pitfalls that could ultimately spur adoption, as well as greater customer satisfaction." Read the rest at Phone+.

How Rackspace Saved the Managed Hosting Industry

Seeking Alpha has an interesting piece about Managed Hosting, which I have often thought was an unattractive name for the Cloud or to some extent virtualization.

Communications Archiving Emerges As Opportunity

"An organization’s data retention requirements encompasses not only e-mail but other forms of electronic communication such as IM and social media. MSPs may find opportunities here in the expanding scope of compliance duties. Here’s why." From the MSP Mentor.

Microsoft Launches Appliance For Building Private Clouds

"Microsoft has developed a private cloud appliance with hardware partners and the $60 billion-a-year, online marketplace, eBay. ... The Azure platform appliance is designed to be deployed in an on-premises private cloud in racks of hundreds or thousands of servers. It will run both Windows Server and a software stack that matches what's available in Microsoft's Azure public cloud. In addition to enterprises, the appliance is geared for use by large cloud services suppliers." Read the rest here.

Microsoft Reveals Cloud Computing System, Azure, eBay Partnership

"MS is officially revealing its Azure cloud computing platform, and noting big first-run customers like eBay and Dell will be using it." Read about it FastCompany.

Backup Data from The Cloud

"Backupify, a startup that provides online backup, archiving and export services for cloud-based social media and SaaS data, is rolling out its application for Google Apps. This will allow any Google Apps users to backup all data stored in their Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Contact and Sites accounts." Read the rest at TechCrunch.

Tim O'Reilly talking about Data in The Cloud

Tim O'Reilly video from MySQL CE 2010 talking about Data in The Cloud. [click here]

What is “The Cloud” Really?

"I make the following observations about how most companies in “the cloud management space” are making it harder for their markets to understand what they do rather than easier." Read the article here.

What is The Private Cloud?

"The increasing availability and use of virtual machines and software appliances are enabling the development of the private cloud: in-house environments that manage workloads using cloud methods. IBM forecasts that these "private clouds" can lower IT labor costs by 50 percent, improve capital utilization by 75 percent, reduce provisioning time from weeks to days, and reduce end user support costs by 40 percent.
With these cost savings come increasing reliability and availability." Thanks to Novell.

County Works with INX to Develop Virtual Private Data Center

"This move to a virtual private data center was completed in an effort to lower costs, reduce power usage and increase availability. Denton County was attracted to the idea of virtualizing their remaining physical servers and as anticipating increased capabilities offered by VMware’s vSphere." Read the rest of the story.

Uptime Releases New Operations Standard

"The Uptime Institute has released the new standard for data center owners, operators, and managers: Tier Standard: Operational Sustainability. The standard focuses on three elements: Management and Operations, Building Characteristics, and Site Location. Read the PDF here.

10 Things to Consider Before Moving to the Cloud

"There is much talk throughout the telecommunications industry about moving to the "cloud." Companies are throwing out software solutions in favor of on-demand options available in the cloud." Here are 10 Things to Consider Before Moving to the Cloud.

Savvis Plays Conductor For Cloud 'Symphony'

"Cloud infrastructure and hosting provider Savvis on Monday tuned its instruments for the launch of Savvis Symphony, a line of cloud services that kicks off with a suite of cloud offerings for public or private clouds." Read the rest here. Or you can read the press release from Savvis here.

ADS Takes Advantage of Host.net's Virtual Private Data Center Offerings

"Florida-based Automated Document Solutions (ADS) is one organization that made the move to a virtual private data center and is now reaping the benefits." Read the case study.

Special Report on HR Technology: In SaaS Battle, Customers Win

"A holy war is under way among HR product vendors over “software as a service,” or SaaS.... The battle over what’s sometimes called “on demand” software comes with strong rhetoric among combatants." Read the report.

SaaS is dead; long live services?

An attention getting headline by ZD because "Slow going: Gartner says Software as a Service still doesn’t even equal one percent of enterprise IT spending." Read it here.

Putting Cloud Providers to the Test - New Bitcurrent/Webmetrics Report

"Recently Bitcurrent conducted a cloud performance test commissioned by Webmetrics, a business unit of Neustar. Bitcurrent describes itself as part blog, part analyst firm and part resource site for the web community. The research project was led by Alistair Croll, a well-known name in the space and program chair for the Cloud Connect conference." Read the rest here.

EMC Shutters Atmos Online Cloud Storage Service

Didn't see that coming: EMC shuts down a cloud service?! Read here.

How to SELLECOM SAAS (and Cloud)

Podcast interview about How to SELLECOM SAAS and cloud services. Listen here.

10 things you may not know about using Amazon Web Services in the enterprise

"Amazon Web Services recently sponsored a half-day event for potential enterprise customers. If you’re planning to deploy AWS in your company, you should be aware of the questions and concerns that came up." Read the rest of the article here.

Cloud, SaaS on the horizon for state and local governments

"State and local governments contending with budget shortfalls and declining tax revenues are taking a closer look at cloud computing and Software as a Service. And that's encouraging for cloud- or SaaS-savvy VARs that focus on government accounts. Vendors and resellers of on-demand solutions report a bump in government sales and increased interest in the form of requests for proposals (RFPs) now hitting the street. Executives said government entities are taking to the cloud as an option for messaging and collaboration, customer relationship management and constituent services among other applications." Read the rest here.

Evaluating Software as a Service (SaaS)

"Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information, are provided to computers and other devices on-demand. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files at any computer with internet access. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing storage, memory, processing and bandwidth. ... The definition between cloud computing and SaaS is almost the same but not quite." Read the rest here.

The Planet Launches Storage Cloud

"Merging on-premise storage performance with cloud storage capabilities, dedicated and managed hosting provider The Planet (www.theplanet.com) is now offering a new, highly scalable and on-demand cloud storage service." Read the WHIR article here.

SaaS Industry Is Collapsing!

People - me included - make predictions all the time. Some are saying that the SAAS market has maxed out. What do you think? Read one opinion here.

Gartner: are we hitting the limits on enterprise cloud proliferation?

"Gartner reports: SaaS will have a role in the future of IT, but not the dominant future that was first thought. Organizations should carefully assess their software needs in light of the current promises delivered on by SaaS." Read the rest at Zdnet.

GE offers e-health records as SaaS offering

Even GE is embracing SAAS! "GE's Healthcare division today announced its first electronic medical record (EMR) product in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform aimed at small or remote physician practices with a lower-cost, monthly fee model." Read the rest here.

5 challenges for moving backup to the cloud

ZDnet blog TechRepublic has 5 things to consider when moving backup to the Cloud. Read it here.

HP targets hybrid IT environments

From IT World, "As enterprises adopt hybrid IT models, spanning physical and virtual environments, they need tools that can help manage the performance and availability of all their applications, irrespective of where they're running, says Paul Muller, vice president of strategic marketing for software products in HP's Software & Solutions group." It's about a solution that simplifies IT and delivers the applications. Period. No one solution fits all.

Pharma and Cloud Computing: Are We There Yet?

From the PharmaExec blog, an interview with Microsoft’s National Director, US Life Sciences Michael Naimoli on if pharma is ready to move its software from the back room to the cloud.

Is 'cloud computing' the future of video games?

"Playing high-profile video games quickly from portable devices such as your iPad might get easier after this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo.... If fully realized, they say, cloud gaming could be a console killer." It's about being able to play games from any device - and move from a shrink-wrapped one-time sale to monthly revenue model. Read the article at CNN.com.

What Does an SLA Mean?

One blogger's experience with managed hosting salespeople and asking what the SLA means.

What We’re Watching in Cloud Computing

The Harvard Business Review has an article that calls "Cloud computing is either a revolutionary IT management tool or a nebulous puff of marketing hype, depending on whom you ask." Read it here.

Verizon partners to deliver cloud storage service

"Corporate data continues to grow exponentially, and companies are looking for a better way to store and retrieve it. Verizon Business is addressing this pressing IT issue by introducing a new cloud-based offering, Verizon Cloud Storage, and a complementary suite of data-retention IT consulting services." Initially the service will use Nirvanix storage infrastructure." Read the rest here.

Microsoft offers its vision of public vs. private cloud

"Microsoft revealed its take on the cloud at TechEd 2010 this week in New Orleans, including a chart that provides a great visual of where Microsoft’s specific products fit into the mix. Cloud computing is an elusive term, but it has essentially become a catch-all for technology services delivered on-demand over the Internet." Read the rest of the blog post here.

Why SaaS may be right for your business

"One of the biggest advantages of using Software as a Service platforms, especially for smaller businesses, is the generally lower up front costs." Read the article at the Prairie Biz mag.

Cloud Model Brings 'Power of Productivity Tools' to Businesses

Telesphere's CEO talks about the power of having a hosted PBX provider in the cloud and why that is advantageous. More at TMC.

Everything moving to the cloud

In an Elon University - Pew Internet survey, respondents say that by 2020 most people won't do their work with software on a general purpose PC. Smartphones, iPads and cloud-based apps. Read it here. Download the Pew Study here as well.

Pew: Cloud Services Will Dominate By 2020

According to a new Pew Internet & American Life Project survey of 895 technology stakeholders and critics, Pew gives us the obvious: Cloud Services will dominate by 2020.

Cloud Services as Strategy for Data Center Companies and Outsourcing

"BroadGroup, the IT and telecommunications specialist, has recently released a new data center report revealing that hybrid cloud is seen as the next major opportunity where efficiencies can be gained by using public cloud for non-critical applications. The report also highlights how Private Cloud enterprise adoption will accelerate over the next five years, and how it will boost the opportunity for third party data center outsourcing."

"The report, Competing in the clouds: emerging strategies for enterprise data centres, written by Marion Howard Healy, demonstrates that Private Cloud will be the fastest growing segment in the enterprise market. However, migrating to cloud services represents a new way of operating, and will require a change in mindset by enterprise IT leaders because 'IT as a Service' introduces very different business and operational models."

Read the rest of the article at EarthTimes.

The Why And How Of Private Clouds

"The private cloud is a new and powerful data center strategy. What IT leaders are sorting out today is just how much of the concept they want to embrace." Read the rest at InfoWeek.

10 Things To Consider Before Moving To The Cloud

ChannelWeb has a slide show of the 10 things to consider before moving to the cloud for those getting started in the cloud? See it here.

Cloud Adoption to Increase Data Center Outsourcing

"IT consulting firm BroadGroup announced on Thursday it has released a new report that shows that enterprise adoption of private cloud will accelerate over the next five years, and will boost the opportunity for third party data center outsourcing." [thewhir]

Ingram Micro Cloud Summit Highlights by MSPmentor

"Cloud Hosting Is Like A Hotel: Pay by the night and everything is taken care of for you, asserted Lew Moorman, president and chief cloud strategy officer at Rackspace Hosted." The other 9 at MSPmentor.

The Competitive Threat of Public Clouds

The CFO will be comparing internal data center and IT costs structures against such public cloud providers as Microsoft, Amazon and Google. Read the article here.

How to Evaluate Cloud Computing Providers

This is becoming a trending article topic since evaluating Cloud Service Providers is more challenging than choosing a data center or a hosting provider. See the article by Jason from ReliaCloud. Price, Performance, Assurance, SLA and Support. How about Private versus Public?

Cloud 2.0: Are We There Yet?

"Cloud computing is still partly hype, part reality. Broken down into its constituent parts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) it is a pragmatic strategy with a history of success. But the concept of “the cloud” still has some executives scratching their heads over what’s real, what’s exactly new about it, and how it fits into their IT plans. Is it time to move to Cloud 2.0?" Read the rest here.

AT&T launches cloud data backup and mobile access service

"A new cloud-based data backup and mobile access service from AT&T announced today is targeted primarily at small- and medium-size businesses. But the company is also expecting to garner some interest from larger customers" Read the rest here.

Google Storage for Developers

Google launches beta of IAAS Storage product Google Storage for Developers, a RESTful cloud service built on Google’s storage and networking infrastructure. [Google code blog]

What's the SLA on Cloud?

"Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are the foundation of any commercially viable cloud computing provider. While cloud computing is relatively young, the services expected from your service provider are analogous to more mature technologies. Listed here are five SLA topics to address when selecting a cloud service provider." Read more at Tech Journal South.

Private Cloud Gaining Traction

"Despite popular belief, so-called "cloud computing" does not always involve putting your systems out on the open Internet for the world to see. In fact, the "private cloud" is gaining more and more traction as cloud computing matures. What is a private cloud?" Read more here.

Cloud computing services primer

Understanding cloud computing services by TechTarget.

"Cloud computing services" is the umbrella term for a growing number of virtual and managed technology services that have already split into cloud market sub-segments. It is nothing short of a paradigm shift in how IT services are delivered to organizations. Read the primer here.

SAS 70 Compliance for Data Center Providers

Data Center Knowledge has a decent article about what SAS 70 Compliance is. Read it here.

Security of Cloud Computing Users: A Study of U.S. and Europe IT Practitioners - CA

Security of Cloud Computing Users: A Study of U.S. and Europe IT Practitioners - CA

"CA and the Ponemon Institute conducted a cloud security survey of U.S. and Europe IT and IT security professionals. The findings show that about half of the respondents don’t believe the organization has thoroughly vetted cloud services for security risks prior to deployment. It also showed that 55 percent of respondents are not confident they know all the cloud services in use in their organization today. Download it here.

We Could All Use a Data Center Glossary

What's PUE, DCIE, LEED certified or N+1 mean? That's why you need a glossary.

What CIOs Need to Know About Integration

Cloud Computing has a lot of promise. Your corporate data center, on-premise infrastructure, mobile workforce, and outsourced IT services all have to managed and integrated into one environment. That's where the rubber meets the road. CIO.com has an article about integration.

Cloud Computing Security: IT's Take on State of Play

From CIO.com newsletter: "New Ponemon research shows that IT thinks security still needs much tightening not only in the cloud but also on premise. Will cloud force the matter -- or is IT's budget still too low?" Read it here.

What is IAAS?

What is IAAS? It is Infrastructure as a Service. Cloud.com launched a scalable IAAS service offering. By definition, IAAS needs to be scalable. The same with any Virtualization service. Why? Because the customer is expecting these services - anything in the Cloud - to grow on demand for them.

IAAS is when your Managed Service Provider, like Host.Net, provides all of the computing hardware - the platform if you will - for your software applications (like office suites, CRM, ERP, EMR, et al) to reside on for global access. It has also been called Platform as a Service (PAAS).

Bottom line: as Host.Net explains, IAAS and PAAS means that you (the customer) can deliver apps but get out of the data center business. Host.Net further explains that they take you out of the hardware business!

Public, Private or Hybrid Cloud?

Public, Private, or Hybrid Cloud? How do you choose? In this article on TechJournalSouth, the author briefly explains 3 models of cloud computing - private, public or a hybrid.

"The bottom line is this: The cloud model you choose depends on your business requirements and how you can effectively balance the four main decision drivers: risk, cost, timing and resources. If you are not sure what makes the most sense for your business, contact a service provider like [Host.Net] for help in finding the right solution — one that fits your organization’s unique requirements." Contact Host.Net today at 1-877-388-HOST (4678)

Guide to Managing Private Clouds

,p>Data Center Knowledge has a Guide to Managing Private Clouds. The other way to do that is to let the experts at vPDC (virtual private data centers) like Host.Net, manage the private cloud for you.

Cloud Expo Summary

Here's one attendees perspective on the CloudExpo in NYC: click here.

Two key observations:

One; "In general, attendees have moved from being there to learn what cloud is to learning how they can use it in their business."

Two, "“Cloud Security” is still an oxymoron. No big surprise here. Customers know they want it, vendors and software companies say they have it, and few are getting or delivering anything close. I pointed so many people to the Cloud Security Alliance and CloudAudit projects that I’m actually tired of talking about them. There were a number of booths that said something like “We are the cloud security experts” – and from talking to them, there wasn’t a single person at the booth that could tell me why they were ‘experts’"

The Cloud Communications eBook

The Cloud Communications eBook for download for no-charge!

April Cloud News

Cloud Fail: Check the Small Print

Forrester: A Close Look At Cloud Computing Security Issues

Can You Still Differentiate in the Cloud?

@CIOonline: on leveraging private AND public cloud: Look Beyond Cloud Labels: Prepare for Hybrid Journey

The Dark Side of Cloud

Amazon, NetFlix and the Cloud

Study: 49 percent of firms choose cloud for business agility