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The VMforce announcement is a great step for SalesForce.com, in large part because it lets them address a recurring concern about the Force.com PaaS [platform as a service] offering: the lack of...
Let’s start with the disclosures: by most interpretations I work for a competitor to what Salesforce.com and VMWare are trying to do with VMforce. And all I know about VMforce is what I read in...
When co-location meets cloud computing the result is control, consistency, agility, and operational cost savings.
Generally speaking when the term “hybrid” as an adjective to describe a cloud...
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...
For cloud computing to gain traction in the enterprise, IT and security executives need to be certain that their company’s applications and data are safe. But when security is partly out of...
Although cloud computing momentum continues to build and scarcely a day goes by without a new cloud announcement or study, there's been little real enterprise adoption and almost no meaningful case...
The rhetoric from open source pundits about the ‘closed’ cloud has already started. From Richard Stallman to others there has been nay-saying related to the cloud being ultimately closed and...
Many IT managers would love to move some of their applications out of the enterprise data center and into the cloud. It's a chance to eliminate a whole litany of costs and headaches: in capital...
Say the words “cloud computing” these days and prepare for a lengthy debate on nearly every aspect of it—from its definition, to its viability, to whether it’s hype or an imperative. For every...
