John Considine

Do VMs Still Matter in the Cloud?

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

There’s a long running debate about the true role of Virtual Machines (VMs) in cloud computing.  In talking with CTOs at the large vendors as well as the “Clouderati” over the last two years, there seems to be the desire to eliminate the VM from cloud computing.  A colleague of mine, Simeon Simeonov

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Dealing with the Cloud's Latent Tendencies

Thursday, May 6, 2010

One of the frequent questions we get when we engage with customers moving applications to the cloud is: what about the latency issues when using a cloud?  This question arises because most IT departments have had to struggle with application performance issues and the idea of adding a big chunk of latency when integrating the cloud is very troubling.  Here is how we address this:

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Legacy Apps Make the Case for the Cloud

Monday, April 26, 2010

We often talk about CloudSwitch moving legacy applications to the cloud in a simple and secure way; this raises the question of what exactly we mean by “legacy.”  To be more specific, we mean a broad range of apps—including third-party, custom and customized off-the-shelf applications—basically any application that has been developed in your current environment without specific design for a cloud.

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