By Jeremy Geelan  With 9th Cloud Expo - Cloud Expo Silicon Valley - in full swing at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California, what's being said about the future landscape of cloud computing? In this round-up we asked a variety of members of the cloud computing ecosystem, from CIOs to independent... Nov. 23, 2011 05:00 AM EST Reads: 21,586 |
By Jeremy Geelan  Ever since I first published here my tentative list of Top 50 Bloggers on Cloud Computing it became clear that an expansion would be needed before too long. Thanks to community feedback via my Twitter account (@jg21) here goes with an expanded roster, listed as before in alphabetical o... Sep. 26, 2011 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 27,612 |
By Jerry Huang  You may have several important folders on the windows server that you want to protect online. Also as part of the cloud adoption strategy, you need the near term protection turned into a long term cloud migration. With these goals, it makes sense to mirror these important folders into ... Aug. 27, 2011 10:58 AM EDT Reads: 1,626 |
By Jeremy Geelan  Strange just how much can happen in one-third of a year. Four months ago to the day, I was wheeled into an operating theater in Denmark's top hospital. In the intense few hours that followed, a gifted surgeon and a deeply professional team obtained a dream result. Jul. 12, 2011 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,518 |
By Jeremy Geelan  A recent commentary confirms how far ahead Cloud management innovator Abiquo is of the rest of the pack. Announcing how the Enterprise Edition of Eucalyptus was this week joining forces with GroundWork, a news and analysis site acknowledged that the Eucalyptus/GroundWork alliance was a... Apr. 11, 2010 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 9,900 |
By Alan Williamson  If your business relies on the speedy resolution of an issue from your cloud provider, then test them before you try. Send them that email out-of-hours to see how quickly and how useful the reply actually is. Try and reach someone on the phone. Look around the forums to see how many qu... Jun. 16, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 15,837 |
By Alan Williamson  As the theme tune to the classic 1984 Ghostbusters movie goes, "If there's something strange, in your neighborhood, Who ya gonna call?", I am left wondering what we'll all be singing (shouting?) when something goes wrong in our cloud world. When you've got your whole business in the cl... Jun. 11, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,662 |
By Fuat Kircaali  "Mass psychology" scientists study this kind of phenomena and the "mass psychology of fascism" is of course the most famous lab case. The extraordinary experience SYS-CON Media lived through became part of a Forbes Magazine investigative cover story called "Attack of the Blogs" that fo... May. 26, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 18,193 |
By David Linthicum  Earlier this month I attended the IBM Impact conference in Las Vegas. The core theme of Impact was "Smart SOA" and how cloud computing comes together in the enterprise, with the emphasis on private clouds. The core notion of private clouds for IBM is really about extending their expe... May. 8, 2009 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 7,702 |
By Alan Williamson  If you were to believe the hype from the media and certain so called industry experts, you would be forgiven for thinking that cloud computing is the second coming. The answer to all our scaling and usage problems. Everything to everyone. The notion that the "cloud" is always on, or up... Mar. 11, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 11,324 |
By Jeremy Geelan  It is the infrastructural paradigm shift that is sweeping across the Enterprise IT world, but how is it best defined? I refer of course to 'Cloud Computing' - the phenomenon that has as many definitions as there are squares on a chess-board. To try and narrow it down we bring here a ro... Jan. 24, 2009 06:15 AM EST Reads: 64,084 Replies: 2 |
By Jeremy Geelan  As new offerings like Amazon's CloudFront, Microsoft's Azure, and VMware's vCloud are rolled out, the worldwide cloud computing momentum continues to grow. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal surveys a globe-girdling network of leading infrastructure experts, IT industry executives... Jan. 18, 2009 07:18 AM EST Reads: 60,720 Replies: 1 |
By Jeremy Geelan  SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal seeks to boost your understanding of Cloud Computing concepts and to bring you the latest news, views, and developments - but we couldn't do so without our amazing high-energy pool of contributors, including many of the hard-working executives driving ... Jan. 10, 2009 05:20 AM EST Reads: 8,694 |
By Jeremy Geelan  Every year SYS-CON polls the Internet technologies community and asks them to share their thoughts on what's around the corner in the world of i-Technology and Web-based enterprise. The main themes were very clear. Cassatt Corporation's CEO Bill Coleman, for example - famous in a forme... Jan. 7, 2009 08:10 AM EST Reads: 23,346 |
By Jeremy Geelan  From Amazon EC2 and App Engine from Google to Utility Computing, Virtualization, and Walled Gardens - there's no aspect of Cloud Computing that hasn't already been addressed at some level of detail in SYS-CON Media's Cloud Computing Journal (www.cloudcomputing.sys-con.com). Here's a ro... Jan. 3, 2009 06:30 PM EST Reads: 26,950 Replies: 1 |
By Jeremy Geelan  While cloud computing reporting has recently been focused on Microsoft's Azure announcement and Amazon's upgrade to EC2, there's an elephant in the cloud: Google. According to a well-researched article in SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal, Google filed as long ago as February 2006 a pr... Nov. 16, 2008 03:30 AM EST Reads: 17,227 Replies: 1 |