Are you wondering who is gaining mind share in the 3rd quarter of 2011? Well wonder no more. Lets take a look at the Top Cloud Enablers Gaining Mind Share, and The Leaderboard (Up and Coming Cloud Innovators, Movers and Shakers). As you know, Cloud computing has gone mainstream, and large enterprise information technology companies must continue their… [Read more…]
September 26, 2011
by Ray DePena
I always enjoy hearing from those of you who have come to the conclusion that Cloud computing will not work, and decided you will not be developing plans to shift your business to the Cloud. Sometimes the analysis is sound. More often than not, it omits key variables. Perhaps you relied too much on vendor… [Read more…]
August 15, 2011
by Ray DePena
It’s time to think about time. According to Wikipedia, in physics, spacetime is any mathematical model that combines space and time into a single continuum. In cosmology, the concept of spacetime combines space and time to a single abstract universe. But you know we’re not here to talk about physics, cosmology, or the universe, as interesting as they… [Read more…]
July 19, 2011
by Ray DePena
Charge! That’s the rallying cry not of your IT on the way to the Cloud, but your business units as they use their corporate American Express (AMEX) cards to buy Cloud services. The Cloud, like the Internet before it, it seems deceptively easy. Back then, it was just connect. Done. Today, it’s just subscribe. Done.… [Read more…]
July 11, 2011
by Ray DePena
At the end of April, Josh Fruhlinger, Editorial Director at AOL Tech, published an article called, “The Cloud: No Sir, I Don’t Like It“. If you haven’t read it, you should, especially if you’re not a fan of this new trend towards Cloud computing. Even though I am a fan of this trend, I enjoyed… [Read more…]
July 4, 2011
by Ray DePena
Happy 4th of July! I hope you enjoyed your holiday weekend (if you happen to live in the U.S.) Today we take a look at the first half of 2011 to see which Cloud players are gaining mind share. In addition to the, “Top 110 Cloud Enablers Gaining Mind Share”, I have included, “The Leaderboard”, 120… [Read more…]
June 30, 2011
by Ray DePena
OpSource, a privately held, SAS 70 Type II, PCI DSS Level 1 Cloud Service Provider headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with 150 employees worldwide has been acquired by Dimension Data, a $4.7 billion ICT services and solutions provider and wholly owned subsidiary of NTT. Like others before them (Verizon + Terremark; Time Warner + NaviSite;… [Read more…]
April 25, 2011
by Ray DePena
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. ~ Howard Aiken That seems an appropriate quote for microcomputer’s early days and the challenges that faced Paul Allen. I received Paul Allen’s book, “Idea Man” four days ago and finished it yesterday afternoon. Maureen Cole at… [Read more…]
April 21, 2011
by Ray DePena
RunMyProcess (RMP) the Cloud based business process management startup which secured $2.2 million Series A funding last year has added Shared inbox for Gmail to its tool kit, facilitating increased collaboration, productivity, agility, and easier management of open customer support tickets or other shared inbox requirements. Shared Inbox group members can see all incoming tickets… [Read more…]
April 18, 2011
by Ray DePena
So you’ve been posting on WordPress.com and due to lack of JavaScript support used by many popular widgets or other reasons, you’re now considering having your blog hosted on Amazon Web Services’ Free Usage Tier. I decided to see what it would take to move my current WordPress.com blog to AWS. After a quick Google search… [Read more…]
April 12, 2011
by Ray DePena
I feel like I’m playing a game of Clue all by myself (it wouldn’t be the first time). No one seems to have questioned IBM’s $7 Billion dollar 2015 target on Cloud computing. It was just swallowed up in the news as if it were written on stone tablets and delivered by Moses himself. Well,… [Read more…]
April 11, 2011
by Ray DePena
While navigating the Cloud Computing, VMware, Virtualization and Enterprise 2.0 Group on LinkedIn, I ran across this question, originally asked in Focus, a network of business and technology experts, thought leaders, and veteran practitioners. “What is a good reason for NOT switching to a cloud computing system?” Let me begin by saying, that is an excellent… [Read more…]
April 5, 2011
by Ray DePena
Amplidata, an object storage technology company specializing in petabyte-scale, unstructured data storage, has announced the availability of the AmpliStor AS20, a 1U rackable 20 Terabyte storage unit that uses Intel’s Atom microprocessor, consuming just 7watts per terabyte. Amplidata is a Belgium startup spun off from Incubaid, which claims to have developed unbreakable storage with 10… [Read more…]
April 5, 2011
by Ray DePena
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Chris O’Connell, Director of Product Marketing for Nimsoft, a provider of integrated IT management solutions owned by CA Technologies. Nimsoft has just announced the availability of its Unified Manager solution which combines IT Monitoring and Service Management to provide ITIL based IT Management as a Service.… [Read more…]
March 31, 2011
by Ray DePena
In a prior post I addressed some of the questions that I have been receiving and have been selecting some of those questions as the basis for a few posts. Today’s question is simple enough though the answer may be lengthier than expected. How do you keep track of so many Cloud computing companies? What tools… [Read more…]
March 30, 2011
by Ray DePena
No, I don’t mean providing infrastructure, platform, or software as a service as Amazon, Google, Salesforce, and numerous others do today, but in terms of generating digital currency – BitCoins. If you haven’t heard, BitCoin is an experimental peer to peer digital currency currently in virtual circulation. There are about 5.7 million BitCoins in existence… [Read more…]
March 29, 2011
by Ray DePena
On the IEEE Spectrum Robotics blog, I came across this blog post, “Cloud Robotics: Connected to the Cloud, Robots Get Smarter” written by Erico Guizzo. It’s an interesting read on the possibilities of leveraging the Cloud in the field of robotics. Robotics has long been plagued by all the processing capacity required to mimic human… [Read more…]
March 29, 2011
by Ray DePena
As one with large enterprise experience, I’ve seen first hand the challenge of migrating from old technology to new technologies on-premise. Migrations range from months to years depending on the size of the migration effort, as well as the number, and type of applications involved. In some cases, by the time the migration is completed,… [Read more…]
March 28, 2011
by Ray DePena
Given the state of the global economy and the increasing adoption of Cloud computing it’s no surprise that lately there have been a number of articles on achieving Cloud computing savings ranging from 40% savings according to an EEOC case study to as much as 80% savings according to Microsoft. However, not everyone seems to believe… [Read more…]
March 27, 2011
by Ray DePena
Before I begin my response to your questions, I want to thank you – the readers of my blogs for all the great questions that you keep sending me. While I can’t respond to all the inquiries I receive, I’d like to take a moment today to address some of your questions. Yes, if you’d… [Read more…]
October 2, 2011
by Ray DePena
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