Archive for the ‘ Cloud Computing ’ Category

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 2/29/10

Let’s see what came up: Forrester analyst John Rymer’s take on Oracle’s Cloud strategy. And for a bonus, a slightly different interpretation by fellow Forrester analyst Stefan Reid. Dion Hinchcliffe, ZDnet: The Facebook imperative for enterprise software.  Hinchliffe is great. Longish articles at times, but good insight. Riffing off Benioff’s recent proclamation that enterprise software should look [ READ MORE ]

Impressions from CloudCamp Boston/Dyn Inc. Video Interview

Well I finally attended my first unConference. Last week I went to CloudCamp Boston at Microsoft’s deftly named NERD Center (New England Research & Development) in Cambridge, MA. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the format or the quality of the content. On balance, I’d say it was worthwhile attending. [ READ MORE ]

Starting a new adventure

Well I finally landed a new gig with Ness Technologies.  While still in the outsourced product development space it’s a bit of a different mission for me. My task is to leverage the experience Ness has garnered in the travel technology space through it’s long-standing work with Amadeus, a leading travel global distribution system (GDS) provider [ READ MORE ]

Red Hat Dreams of Single Cloud API is Simply That

Last week Red Hat’s CTO Brian Stevens introduced a new initiative called Deltacloud that has a very lofty goal of simplifying the process of invoking cloud services via a new unified standard.  It address interoperability which can be an important challenge in cloud computing for ISVs.  Out of the box they have some pretty good [ READ MORE ]

Over-reaction and Valuable Lessons from the Gmail Fail

There was a lot written in the past few days about the service interruptions with Gmail, so let me add my two cents.  In my mind there was a significant over-reaction to the Gmail Fail, mostly by people who for some reason or another are anti-SaaS or anti-Cloud.  I wish someone would do some sort [ READ MORE ]

How to Select a Cloud Provider

Geva Perry is starting a series called “The Purpose-Driven Cloud” where it appears that he’s trying to address the aforementioned question by evaluating a number of different attributes that are all technology-centric.  It looks like it should be a worthwhile discussion, although it’s mostly written from a developer’s point of view. But I think his angle [ READ MORE ]

Reflections of OpSource Cloud Demo

Yesterday my CTO and I were given a demo of OpSource’s new OpSource Cloud, now in private beta. My company, Symphony Services, already is an OpSource partner, but as we’re starting to get more involved in developing Cloud-based solutions and POC’s, we figured to take a look under the hood. Admittedly we didn’t [ READ MORE ]

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