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Is the cloud a better place for our data?

As consumers, we have two options of storing our digital data: locally or elsewhere in the cloud. IntraLinks' Mushegh Hakhinian says it's like storing your savings in a mattress or a bank. Commentary- Data loss is an all too common a theme in the news these days. The recent...

Tags: Bank, Password, Data Loss, cloud, storage, Mushegh Hakhinian IntraLinks, Special to ZDNet, Mushegh Hakhinian IntraLinks, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-26

Beware the allure of Fool's Cloud

Private cloud, like fool's gold, isn't the real thing. It omits some of the most crucial elements of cloud computing and will disappoint and deceive most enteprises that fall for its allure. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Allure, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Moore's Law of Software is the key to the cloud

Shared endeavor is what connects cloud computing to open source. The same force that drives open source forward, developers sharing and improving tools, also drives the cloud, Urquhart writes. It's a brilliant insight. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Software, Cloud, Moore, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-08

SaaS for your business in the cloud

Is it just lower upfront cost and faster time-to-live that's driving businesses to adopt SaaS? Or is it simply that the cloud is where business gets done today, and that's where business systems should operate too. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Cloud, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-09-23

AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the money' [interview]

Cloud computing can't possibly handle streaming a first-person shooter or a feature-length film, can it? Ask AMD's Charlie Boswell, and he'll not only tell you it's possible, but he'll nearly leap with excitement about it. Boswell, AMD's director of digital...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Cloud, GPU, OTOY, Fusion Render Cloud, Jules, Games, Cloud Computing, Internet, Virtualization, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-11

Harnessing enterprise clouds: Many technical underpinnings already reside in today's data centers

We expect that the way the clouds are built will be refined for more and more enterprises over time. The early goal is gaining the efficiency, control and business benefits of an everything-as-a-service approach, without the downside and risks. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Data Center, Cloud, Data Centers, Storage, Benefits, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-09-09

Am I a big whiner about Gmail's downtime?

I received a lot of feedback on my post from Tuesday, "Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes down." Comments ranged from commiseration, to ridicule for buying into a cloud-based solution, to thoughtful musings on the nature of the cloud in education. by Christopher Dawson

Tags: Google Gmail, Downtime, Cloud, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-09-03

Cast Iron, Amazon partner to push migration to EC2 cloud

You've no doubt heard all the buzz about virtual data centers and doing business in the cloud, as well as all the money that can be saved. But when it comes time to do make the move, there are a lot of things to think about. Will...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Migration, Cloud, Registration Information, Data Center Virtualization, Software As A Service (SaaS), Storage, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management, Virtualization, Emerging Technologies, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-01

When is a cloud not a cloud?

Instead of falling into the trap of building privately hosted, captive clouds, the emerging concept of virtual private cloud lets enterprises put a slice of public cloud infrastructure under their own delegated control and management. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Cloud, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-08-28

Amazon Web Services rolls out Virtual Private Cloud: Enterprise customer tipping point on deck?

Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, a secure bridge designed to connect enterprise data centers with its cloud. The move fills in a big missing enterprise-friendly piece---the need for hybrid cloud approaches---and may ease the migration to the cloud. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Cloud, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-26

Future cloud apps won't need humans

Lew Tucker, vice president and chief technology officer of cloud computing at Sun Microsystems, foresees applications that are entirely self-sufficient. Humans will be able to set boundaries, of course, but will no longer be needed to turn servers, or anything else for that matter, physically on or off. It is...

Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-14

Private cloud formations rising, but remember SOA lessons

We've been tracking developments in the private cloud space for the past couple of years. As noted in my last post, there's plenty of concern about the security and reliability of cloud computing. Perhaps one way to address these concerns is through private clouds that remain in...

Tags: SOA, Cloud, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-13

Future cloud apps won't need humans

Lew Tucker, vice president and chief technology officer of cloud computing at Sun Microsystems, foresees applications that are entirely self-sufficient. Humans will be able to set boundaries, of course, but will no longer be needed to turn servers, or anything else for that matter, physically on or off. It is...

Tags: Cloud, Virtualization, Hardware, OpenSource, San Francisco, cloud computing, SaaS, global

Videos 2009-08-13

Who will benefit most from the cloud?

At the OpenSource World event in San Francisco, Lew Tucker, vice president and CTO of cloud computing at Sun Microsystems, explained that many developing countries are skipping over acquiring their own servers and going right to the cloud. Because of the cost effectiveness, the move may spur their economies and...

Tags: Benefit, Cloud, Free Trade, Virtualization, Finance, Hardware, CloudWorld, cloud computing, OpenSource, open source, SaaS

Videos 2009-08-13

OpenSource World kicks off with sparse crowds, nothing-new keynote

If the attendance at the opening keynote for OpenSource World formerly known as LinuxWorld serves as a barometer for anything to do with the economy, the tech industry or even trade shows, things are not looking good. There were no lines this morning to get inside San...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Cloud, Keynote Speech, Data Centers, Strategy, Linux, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Panel: too much to lose by moving to generic services and cloud?

Do we put competitive advantage at risk when moving to generic services? Or perhaps the whole scenario of enterprise IT being edged out by the cloud is overblown? Consider the the mainframe, as Dana Gardner recently put it: "In the early 1990s, IT pundits, and my former boss Stewart...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Information Technology, SOA, Cloud, Jim, BBrad, Business Intelligence, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Mainframes, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Web Services, Management, Servers, Hardware, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Dead-Finger Tech: I don't have any . . .

My colleagues here on ZDNet have been writing lots of great stuff about which technology you'd have to pry from their dead fingers. I think that when my time comes you'll only find that my fingers are crossed -- you won't find any death grip on a...

Tags: Computer, Cloud, Productivity, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-07-31

ARCHITECT COUNCIL | Pragmatic Patterns for Architects - Day 1 Live Meeting

These days everything suggests that one should be moving to the cloud. But where to start? Which applications and services should be moving to the cloud? How to build the bridge between on-premises and the cloud? The attendee of this webcast will learn architectural patterns and factors for moving to...

Tags: Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Office, Virtualization, Office Suites, Software, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-07-06

With drop.io, real-time collaboration in the cloud

Is cloud computing a load of bull or the real deal? For drop.io founder and CEO Sam Lessin, it's everything...literally. Without it, his company and its eponymous service -- which allows two-click sharing of anything with anyone, privately -- might not exist. I spoke...

Tags: Cloud, XMPP, ZD, SL, Drop.io, Groupware, Collaboration, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Who's Architecting the Cloud?

Will the cloud succumb to the same short-sighted, market pressure that doomed the ASP model and still plagues SaaS approaches? It’s not up to vendors to answer this question. It’s up to you … the enterprise architect. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Cloud, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Scripting Languages, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-19