http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Cloud Computing Viewpoint Copyright 2008 CLOUD COMPUTING JOURNAL Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:24:00 GMT CLOUD COMPUTING JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/read/613436.htmhttp://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/read/613436.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT What sort of cloud computer(s) should we be building or expecting from vendors? Are there issues of lock-in that should concern customers of either SaaS clouds or PaaS clouds? I've been thinking about this problem as the CEO of a PaaS cloud computing company for some time. Clouds should be open. They shouldn't be proprietary. More broadly, I believe no vendor currently does everything that's required to serve customers well. http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/read/612375.htmhttp://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/read/612375.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:15:00 GMT 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 round-up of some recent attempts to bring welcome precision where there risks being unnecessary vagueness. http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/read/613070.htmhttp://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/read/613070.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:45:00 GMT Cloud computing, utility computing, SaaS, on-demand, grid computing, etc. The jargon is back. But does it really matter any more than it did 10 years ago when you couldn't grab a bite to eat at the local Silicon Valley deli without hearing those three special letters 'ASP' that were at the forefront of our collective brain when we talked about applications running in the cloud. (They usually came right after the other three letters: IPO, but let's not go there.) http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/read/611009.htmhttp://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/read/611009.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT I think that cloud computing is going to be 'the way ahead' for most businesses and individuals in the coming year or two. It makes a lot of sense. However, right now, in 2008, I think it's a very brave person who would entrust their business data to one of the thousands of micro-businesses offering 'cloud computing' services. http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/read/608838.htmhttp://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/read/608838.htm Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:45:00 GMT Information Technology is fantastic, absolutely essential, and largely responsible for this country's increase in productivity over the past decade or so. It's also broken. IT is overly complex, difficult to implement correctly, and expensive to maintain over its short lifespan.