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The Future Of The Cloud- Social And Fun! « Servage TotalCloud. It takes a brave soul to take on the combined might of the Goliaths of Gaming, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. Introducing, ‘OnLive’, the Gaming world’s very own David, with one special slingshot – the cloud. This innovative computer gaming company believes they have developed [...]

The Age of Disposable Software – Chief Marketing Technologist. I have a non-green confession to make: I love paper plates. Paper plates, paper napkins, plastic forks and knives. They’re always fresh and clean. Bring them outdoors on a picnic, no worries of losing or breaking anything. Blithely sully them with cheeseburger and chili dog, potato [...]

The New World of Infrastructure Apps. Just 10 years ago, deploying applications involved assembling the entire food chain down to the physical hardware. The process was lengthy, expensive, and complex. While product choices existed, infrastructure deployment was a requirement, not an option. Fast forward to today’s cloud era. Deploying applications no longer mandates a soup-to-nuts [...]

Yes, The SaaS ‘Experiment’ Is Over — Seeking Alpha. For the past two weeks, I’ve been debating whether to respond to a commentary in InfoWorld by Neil McAllister which asked, “Is the SaaS Experiment Finally Over?” But, I couldn’t hold back any longer when one of the many online publications where I’m a contributor, eBizQ, posed the [...]

Excellent talk by Simon Wardley (Leading Edge Forum/CSC) about change and the cloud at OSCON 2010.

Are ‘clouds’ located outside the European Union unlawful? « Information Security Breaches & The Law. This is at least what Dr. Thilo Weichert argues.  He is the head of the Independent Center for Privacy Protection of the State of Schleswig-Holstein (Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, or “ULD”), and one of Germany’s top privacy experts.  In [...]

Research Report: How SaaS Adoption Trends Show New Shifts In Technology Purchasing Power « A Software Insider’s Point of View. SaaS Adoption Surveys Often Overlook Audience Composition Over the past year, analyst firms, tech media, and even mainstream business media have happily showcased positive news about SaaS adoption.  The common theme remains clear – SaaS [...]

OpenStack: An Open Source Cloud Project Emerges. Say hello to OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform, which hopes to compete with several proprietary cloud platforms including those being developed by Microsoft and VMware. RackSpace is spearheading the project and is donating the code that powers its Cloud Files and Cloud Servers to the OpenStack project. The project is [...]

Data Center Dialog: Best lessons about Cloud Computing 101 are actually for the one teaching the class. I’ve noticed that I have a tendency to get a bit impatient with the pace of cloud computing adoption. Sure, there are lots of examples of leading-edge companies that are dabbling with it. And, I know some big [...]

ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: Embracing Your Niche in The Cloud. With all the talk and the hype surrounding cloud computing many seem to be missing a major factor — both in terms of the growth potential as well as the current opportunity for cloud computing products and services. Although the tech media and [...]