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Cloud: The network. Clouds generally refer to wide area networks WANs such as the Internet, but can also refer to a private cloud, which is a company's own network. ...; Full Cloud Definition >>

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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? ItÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s not up to vendors to answer this question. ItÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s up to you Ã¢â‚¬Â¦ 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
Cloud computing and open source face-off: Cloud computing remains one of the big topics in software this year despite considerable and ongoing concerns over lock-in, lack of control, and security. The siren song of ease-of-development, reduced costs, highly elastic scalability, and next-generation architectures has many in IT and in the Web community carefully weighing the...; Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Virtualization, Hardware, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-06-14
What's the cloud's killer app? [video]: At the Interop conference in Las Vegas, SAP CTO Vishal Sikka shares his views with M.R. Rangaswami, co-founder of the Sand Hill Group on application development in the cloud. He pinpoints two key areas for continued research, real-time search and mobility. [video=304926] by Larry Dignan; Tags: Killer Application, Video, Cloud, Software Development, Corporate Communications, Development Tools, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2009-05-27
What's the cloud's killer app?: At the Interop conference in Las Vegas, SAP CTO Vishal Sikka shares his views with M.R. Rangaswami, co-founder of the Sand Hill Group on application development in the cloud. He pinpoints two key areas for continued research, real-time search and mobility.; Tags: Killer Application, Cloud, Software Development, Development Tools, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Interop, SAP, Vishal Sikka; Videos 2009-05-26

The time is now for Mozy and cloud backup services: Here's my top three reasons why I'm considering a cloud offering to backup my most valuable data - my personal digital music and photo collections. The cloud won't fall off the desk and become damaged. Kids can't spill their juice on the cloud. In case...; Tags: Backup, Photograph, EMC Corp., Cloud, Mozy, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2009-05-22
EMC World: A view of the enterprise from above the cloud: In his keynote speech at EMC World, CEO Joe Tucci talked about what's hot - not just for EMC, but for the business of technology as a whole - and looked closely at the things that will have the biggest impact on enterprise technology as the economy continues to have...; Tags: Joe Tucci, EMC Corp., Cloud, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2009-05-18
EMC World kicks off with new cloud offerings: Things are kicking off at EMCWorld this morning, before the keynote speeches, with news from EMC and partners about high-capacity storage services that provides a scalable, hybrid model. When it comes to enterprise storage on the cloud, there are two clouds to consider: the "private" cloud behind...; Tags: EMC Corp., Cloud, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2009-05-18
Google goes down, questions about cloud computing arise: On Thursday, a major outage affecting 14% of Google users caused widespread panic, and raised questions about cloud computing in general. This outage happened just when the US Goverment began discussing how cloud computing fits into their $78 billion IT budget for 2010. Running companies (and...; Tags: Google Inc., Cloud, Leat, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Manufacturing, Hardware, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2009-05-16
SOA's new mission: move workloads in and out of the cloud: Lori MacVittie recently channeled Gartner's Daryl "G-Man" Plummer in an analysis of the converging roles of SOA and cloud computing. Essentially, the challenge with cloud computing comes along when you want to move workloads in and out of the cloud, versus entire applications. And Lori and Daryl...; Tags: SOA, Cloud, Lori MacVittie, Pieces, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2009-05-15
Where Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) must go next: More Robust Apps Needed NOW! Platform-as-a-Service is hot these days. Vendors like NetSuite and salesforce.com have their clouds as to players like Amazon and Google. Cloud providers like to promote their capabilities to application developers and, in doing so, create an ecosystem full of low-cost applications for...; Tags: Software Company, PaaS, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Brian Sommer; Blog posts 2009-05-08
IBM cements cloud, appliance, BPM, CEP and SOA into an IMPACT 2009 solution brick: In a nutshell, IBM is helping enterprises create private clouds as either appliances or built on Z Series mainframes, with better connections to CEP, and managed from BPM in public cloud. It provides an excellent story for IBM, and places it at an early competitive advantage against Microsoft, Oracle/Sun, and...; Tags: BPM, SOA, IBM Corp., Cloud, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Mainframes, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Web Services, Middleware, Servers, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Hardware, Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2009-05-04
rPath offers free management tool for applications aspiring to the cloud: For IT managers looking at cloud deployment, rPathÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s approach is to embrace as many flavors of the cloud as possible to deal with the fact that what is commonly called the cloud is really a bunch of non-standard environments varying from vendor to vendor. by Dana Gardner; Tags: Cloud, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2009-05-01
Google replies to cloud computing concerns: A post on this blog last week asked the question: Is adopting the cloud a money-losing mistake? After all, a McKinsey & Co. study called "Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing" concluded that adoption of the cloud model would be a money-losing mistake for most large corporations...; Tags: Google Inc., McKinsey & Co., Data Center, IBM Corp., Cloud, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2009-04-29
'Private cloud' = just another buzzword for on-premise datacenter?: VMware made its big "private cloud" pitch last week with its introduction of vSphere. Not to be outdone, Microsoft is fleshing out its private cloud positioning at the annual Microsoft Management Summit this week in Las Vegas. Whether or not they admit it publicly (or just express...; Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-04-28
Comments on VMware vSphere Launch: From time to time, I am sent proactive, preemptive commentary from a supplier. That supplier hopes to focus my attention on something, change my opinion to something closer to their opinion, or in some other away have an impact on my research.Ã‚Â Since I'm open to learn from executives, I...; Tags: VMware Inc., Cloud, Time-to-Value Public Cloud, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Workforce Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2009-04-24
Under the Radar: Judging cloud storage startups: I'll be a judge Friday on the data management panel at the Under the Radar conference, an American Idol-ish bake-off for cloud computing startups. My assignment: Do a little homework on the companies I'll be judging.Ã‚Â The companies---Axcient, Ctera, Engyte and Sonian---have a common theme: Online cloud...; Tags: Radar, Small And Medium Business, Cloud, Ctera, Engyte, Sonian, Axcient, Egnyte, E-discovery, Smb/Sme, Storage, Data Management, File Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2009-04-22
Exchange 2010: Tier your workforce, split your domain, save money: Microsoft today announced the public beta of Exchange 2010. This product is a natural extension and improvement over Exchange 2007 (and anybody on Exchange 2003 should really be looking at it), but it also introduces at least one important new capability: email archiving. But I'll let my...; Tags: Mailbox, Environment, Domain, Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Workforce, Exchange 2010, Knowledge Management, E-mail, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Data Management, Ted Schadler; Blog posts 2009-04-15
Is adopting the cloud a money-losing mistake?: Everything is in the cloud. It certainly feels that way, even though it's patently untrue. Cloud computing is everywhere, it's a buzzword, it's on the tip of everyone's tongues. To the cloud, I say! To the cloud! But new research from McKinsey & Co....; Tags: Cloud Computing, McKinsey & Co., Data Center, Cloud, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2009-04-15
Microsoft Azurelight: Product support in the cloud: A Microsoft architect is building a cloud-based product-support service he has dubbed "Azurelight." His plan is to deliver Azurelight, which builds on the Windows Azure OS, Silverlight and other Microsoft technologies, via the Microsoft Developer Network "sometime in the summer" of 2009. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Networking, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-04-13