Now you know why Larry Ellison has been so cranky whenever he is asked about cloud computing. Companies shifting to cloud computing aren’t buying more Sun servers. But they are showing more than savings. At least, that’s what KMPG found in a survey of 900 global companies. The survey is described in this Dow Jones [Read More →]
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Google Docs takes a step off the cloud and onto the hard disk
September 8, 2011 — GusThe cloud can be a very good way to serve up data and applications but it is not necessarily the best place to work, day in and day out. We all need to plan for days when there is no Internet connection. Google is acknowledging that this week. It is beginning the process of giving [Read More →]
Stock index fund launched for cloud computing
July 12, 2011 — GusIn a signal that some investors believe cloud computing is here to stay, an ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) was launched to invest solely in cloud computing stocks. The fund is managed by First Trust Advisors and it will go by the ticker symbol of SKYY and it is trading on NASDAQ. The fund does not [Read More →]
Office 365 gets the desktop to cloud transition right
June 29, 2011 — GusOne of the prime advantages to moving your desktop applications to the cloud is that you are freed from your desktop. The software and applications will be ready to use any time you have a connected computer. That’s liberating for when you’re traveling. But what about the times when you have your computer and no [Read More →]
Personal Cloud Computing Services Market Will Be Worth $12 Billion in Five Years
June 10, 2011 — GusApple is about to lead the development of a brand new industry if a new Forrester Research report is correct. After evaluating the new Apple iCloud service and its history with MobileMe, the analysts conclude that paying subscribers will flock to personal clouds A key factor driving the shift is the state of the personal [Read More →]
A Peek Inside Apple’s iCloud Data Center Reveals HP, Terradata and NetApps hardware
June 9, 2011 — GusWhen Stephen Jobs introduced the iCloud service, he didn’t spend much time talking about the infrastructure. And over 99 percent of its customers couldn’t care less. But for us hardware geeks, the details are very interesting. Apple is a company that has made its reputation on mystery boxes, going to great extremes to hide the [Read More →]
How Much Revenue Is Being Generated by Cloud Computing?
June 8, 2011 — GusDmitry Sotnikov is trying to answer this question at his enterprise cloud blog. He doesn’t try to be comprehensive. It’s a lot easier to look at the sales of large public companies since they have to provide so much disclosure when they make capital investments. And of course, the big vendors have been sinking large [Read More →]
Apple’s Personal Data Cloud Located in North Carolina
June 6, 2011 — GusThe new Apple iCloud service is certain to give cloud computing a major boost in terms of consumer accepance. The service will educate a generation of consumers that their most precious data — work data, personal photos, music collections — can and should be managed by a remote service that is not on their personal [Read More →]
FT’s eye-opening report of cloud computing adoption plans is not exactly impartial
May 4, 2011 — GusA story on the FT.com website today reported a claim that was so optimistic about the future of cloud computing, I just had to read more about it. The FT story is titled Battlelines in Cloud Services Market and it is largely about a $2.5 billion cquisition bid by CenturyTel for Savvis. But a few [Read More →]
Microsoft moving 1,600 USDA email accounts to the cloud every day
May 2, 2011 — GusThe federal government is well into its plan to move a significant percent of its IT onto cloud servers. The Washington Post has an update and it reports Microsoft is deep into the process of moving the Agriculture Department’s email system with 17,000 accounts moved already and over 100,000 scheduled to be moved before the [Read More →]