Amazon today exposed the downside of an always-on, cloud-connected e-book platform. Ironically enough, the e-tailing giant yanked George Orwell’s “1984″ and “Animal Farm” published by MobileReference from customers’ Kindles. That’s right, someone flipped the kill-switch from Amazon HQ and every…
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing services may just be providing the nudge SMBs need to migrate to open source platforms and trim costs. At least that’s the thinking of Alex Vuchnich at AccountingWEB.com. He makes a good case. After all, web services hide…
Read more Can Cloud Computing Trigger Broader Open Source Adoption?
This interesting post on Games for Learning – Sun Blogs came across my Twitter client (Seesmic – nice but needs some work). Brandon Carso suggests that we don’t get too hung up on the technological aspects of cloud computing and…
Read more Cloud Computing – Look Beyond the Tech
The enterprise cloud seduction begins… Big Blue’s services division is looking to build bridges to the cloud for businesses that desire to capitalize on the benefits of this lofty form of computing. Lofty because while several cloud services have launched…
Read more IBM Smart Business Cloud Services: Come Hither, Enterprises
Saleforce.com’s web application platform Force.com gets a free edition that’s meant to prime the pump for enterprises considering putting some apps up in the cloud. There are limits, of course, but at first glace it looks like it provides some…
Cloud computing is getting a chilly reception among CIOs and CFOs in the U.K. according to a study conducted by Vanson Bourne for managed services provider NTT Europe. Of the 200 CIOs and CFOs at large businesses polled for the…
Read more UK CIOs Not Keen on Clouds
The cloud services space got a little more crowded today as AT&T announced that the company will be tackling online storage with the help of EMC. AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service is being pitched to enterprises as a way…
Read more AT&T and EMC Team for Cloud Storage
Guess what’s new in eTelemetry’s Metron v. 2.1 release? Cloud Services Accounting, that’s what. Cloud Services Accounting (CSA), put simply, provides monitoring and reporting over the bandwidth consumed by cloud services. Why should your organization care? Well, if you’re seeing…
Read more eTelemetry Intros Cloud Metering
Well, that didn’t take long. VMware made a splash last week by outlining its private cloud vision. Today, Microsoft got in on the act. During the Microsoft Management Summit this week, Microsoft reiterated the role of cloud computing and virtualization…
Read more Microsoft Also Envisions Cloudy, Virtualized Future
While there is still a lot of work to be done in getting businesses to change their one-app-per-box ways, VMware is already looking at the horizon and chasing clouds. VMware unveiled vSphere 4, which the company is billing as the…
