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Cloud computing is opening doors for traditional software companies in ways some people might not expect. Sometimes it’s not about how to transition on-premise software to software as a service (SaaS...

What makes one Web applications “Software as a Service” (SaaS) and another a “plain old Web application” (POWA)? Or is there no such distinction? Wouldn’t it be...

Why architecture matters not only to security but to the future of cloud computing It seems the phrase "in the cloud," sadly, has become a marketing-hyped euphemism for "the Internet." I say sadly...

There have been some interesting discussions recently about the relationship between cloud management and SOA management/governance (run-time and design-time). My only regret is that they are a bit...

It’s difficult to throw a stone these days without hitting a so-called ‘hybrid cloud.’ The problem is that the term hybrid, used in this context, appears to mean: “Put any...

In the short term, hybrid cloud is going to be the cloud computing model of choice. Amidst all the disconnect at CloudConnect regarding standards and where “cloud” is going was an undercurrent of...

Before moving an enterprise application to the cloud, you need to be sure that your expectations are realistic and your objectives match what the cloud can deliver. In this post, I’d like to...

Create them now and stifle innovation or create them later when it’s too late? That seems to be the breadth of the discussion on cloud standards today. Fortunately, the situation with cloud...

More interesting, what if you had the means to actually try to meet them? On the surface, Infrastructure 2.0 seems to have very little value to the end-user. It is, after all, about collaboration at...

In this first post of 2010, I'd like to look at one of the most important cloud issues that enterprises want to tackle: federation in the cloud - across clouds and between the cloud and the data...