Skytap + Google = No App Left Behind
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 Posted in Cloud Computing, Releases, Skytap | No Comments »Skytap Inc., today announced it has added the Skytap Cloud™ to the Google Apps Marketplace™, Google’s recently launched online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. Skytap enables organizations to deploy enterprise applications unchanged in the cloud and collaborate securely ...
Network Automation Announcement
Sunday, February 28th, 2010 Posted in Cloud Computing, Releases, Skytap | No Comments »Today Skytap announced breakthrough network automation capabilities that simplify and accelerate the creation, migration and deployment of multi-tier enterprise applications in the cloud. These features empower IT organizations to create virtual data centers with advanced network ...
Focus on ‘right-sized, zero-CAPEX alternatives’
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »Phil Wainewright recently wrote an article in ZDNet that referenced IDC’s forecast that SaaS growth will surge by more than 40 percent in the current year. He highlighted one particularly interesting statement: “… the harsh economic climate will actually accelerate the ...
Repost: Private Clouds Are A Fix, Not The Future
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »An excellent post from Alistair Croll today ‘Private Clouds Are A Fix, Not The Future’. Today we see companies moving low risk, dynamic workloads to the cloud, but as Alistair points out, in the not-so-distant-future, we’ll see a large chunk of ...
5 Points To Make When Your CEO Cries Cloud
Monday, January 11th, 2010 Posted in Cloud Computing, Virtual Lab Automation and Management | No Comments »I saw an interesting article today in Information Week (click here to view) discussing how to respond to execs when they ask what your cloud strategy is. We’re seeing many companies come to us after a CEO and/or CIO has pushed ...
2010 Cloud Computing Predictions: The Year of Realism
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »2010 Cloud Computing Predictions: The Year of Realism The buzz around cloud computing reached fever pitch this year, culminating in Gartner placing cloud computing at the peak of its hype cycle in July. We saw controversy around the Open Cloud Manifesto, the federal government ...
Are All Clouds Equal and Ready for Enterprise IT Workloads?
Monday, November 9th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »Lots of enterprises are evaluating external clouds, such as Skytap and Amazon EC2, to off-load their dynamic IT workloads. Top candidates include dev/test, IT prototyping and application migration environments. These can account for 35% or more of IT infrastructure and ...
Our View on the Open Cloud Manifesto
Monday, March 30th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »The Open Cloud Manifesto was released today to a flurry of comment and criticism from the media, including GigaOm, eWeek, ZDnet, and others. This comes after last week’s post from Microsoft, complaining about the closed nature of the manifesto’s development. ...
Gartner Says Cloud Application Infrastructure Technologies Need Seven Years to Mature
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »Gartner issued a press release predicting the 3 phases of evolution for cloud computing. In the first phase, pioneers and trailblazers, Gartner predicts successful vendors will focus on rapid-application-development-oriented tools and solutions where return on investment can be acquired within ...
The Cloud Wars: Who Will Win?
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Cloud Computing | No Comments »Today, Microsoft announced its Windows Azure cloud computing offering, further validating the market for cloud-based platforms. Given the multitude of major players in this market, including Amazon and Google, and the speed of innovation, we should see some major advances ...
