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The Gartner Cloud Computing Smell Test

John Cowan wrote 1 week ago: Sniff, sniff…. Yep, it’s a Cloud! Gartner released five criteria to determine whether the pile … more →

Tags: Commentary, 6fusion, Cloud Computing, Gartner

Understanding the Role of the Channel in Cloud Computing

John Cowan wrote 1 week ago: Larry Walsh, of Channel Insider, recently tackled the sensitive subject of the role of the IT servic … more →

Tags: Commentary, 6fusion, Cloud Computing, MSP, Channel, var, Channel Insider, Larry Walsh

A tragedy in the cloud

Ravi wrote 3 weeks ago: According to a news report UK based hosting service company VAServ was a target of  a hacking attack … more →

Tags: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, Change Management, data center, HyperVM, IT, ITIL, Ligesh, lxlabs

RedPeak Solutions to Partner with 3Tera to Provide Cloud Computing Services for Enterprise Customers

RedPeak Solutions wrote 3 weeks ago: Relationship Builds on the Growing Demand for Migrating from Traditional Datacenter Environments to … more →

Tags: 3Tera, cloud, Cloud Computing, Consulting, deployment, implementation, Managed Services, partnership

Manageability in Cloud Computing

Ravi wrote 3 weeks ago: There have been many attempts to define and characterize Cloud Computing recently. NIST (National In … more →

Tags: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, Change Management, data center, IT, ITIL, virtualization

My middle name is Arnie

flexiscale wrote 1 month ago: (Ok, so thats a white lie), but we said we would be back, and we are! We have now fully rolled out … more →

Tags: Cloud Computing, flexiscale, FOWA, scalability, xcalibre

Public clouds v/s private clouds1 comment

Ravi wrote 1 month ago: One of the major objections to cloud computing has been that it is not secure enough. There is some … more →

Tags: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, Change Management, data center, IT, ITIL, virtualization

Pay as you go

Ravi wrote 1 month ago: I read Dave Malcolm Surgient’s blog on the characteristics of cloud computing. As cloud compu … more →

Tags: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, Change Management, data center, HyperVM, IT, ITIL, virtualization

Computing-as-Electricity, not ‘IT-as-Electricity’…

John Cowan wrote 1 month ago: Our Finance Director said I should take a look at a new blog post by Andrew McAfee, in which he expl … more →

Tags: Commentary, 6fusion, Cloud Computing, Andrew McAfee, it-as-electricity, SaaS, paas

Software as a Service: additional challenges for IT procurement professionals

Simon Locke wrote 1 month ago: Software as a Service SaaS is widely predicted to increase in popularity as companies attempt to red … more →

Tags: SaaS, Software Procurement, application service provider, Cloud Computing, Contracts, On Demand, Procurement, purchasing, Sourcing

Cloud Computing 1.0 = Utility Computing 2.0

jsteensen wrote 1 month ago: Cloud computing is everywhere – and nowhere. I say that because it seems that no two vendors/a … more →

Tags: Cloud Computing, electric grid, Smart Grid

6fusion's John Cowan to Present at Third Annual Ingram Micro Seismic Partner Conference

John Cowan wrote 1 month ago: Dallas, TX May 3, 2009 — 6fusion, a pioneer in the development of pure-play utility computing … more →

Tags: News Release, 6fusion, ingram, Cloud Computing, UC6, John Cowan

CloudSlam 09 - First Day

thegeekthatcanspeak wrote 2 months ago: Well, I tried my first virtual conference today and was not disappointed.  The only thing missing wa … more →

Tags: Cloud Computing, data center, Information Technolgy, Infrastructure, SaaS, Security

Sorting out cloud marketechture4 comments

cloudcto wrote 2 months ago: I hear about vendors and service providers talking about virtualization, cloud computing, grid compu … more →

Tags: Cloud Computing, hosting, virtualization, Grid Computing

Elephants can dance, but cannot jump

Hari Nair wrote 3 months ago: Elephants can dance, but cannot jump. And thats where the new-age service providers will take the ba … more →

Tags: Cloud Computing, disruption, General, IT Services, Services

New podcast series on cloud computing

stephenpritchard wrote 3 months ago: Every cloud has a silver lining – at least it does if you’re trying to rein in your IT s … more →

Tags: Journalism, Podcast, Published Work, technology, Accenture, Cloud Computing, Google, IBM, Sofware As A Service

Above the Clouds - A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing : Highlights2 comments

vmallarapu wrote 4 months ago: I have been reading through the report by RAD Labs of  University of Berkeley. It is an interesting … more →

Tags: technology, WWW, Cloud Computing, Berkeley, SaaS, pay as you go, public cloud, private cloud, RAD Labs

21ST CENTURY PRINCIPLES FOR SMART GROWTH

Juanhijo wrote 4 months ago: Short term growth where the objective is to quickly extract resources or capital is a short sighted … more →

Tags: cloud, Smart Growth, social network

Desktop as a service - DAAS

Hari Nair wrote 4 months ago: While working a recent case, I started delving more on the economics on cloud computing within the d … more →

Tags: Cloud Computing, DAAS, desktop as a service


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