Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 24, 2009
Gartner’s recent “Key Issues for Cloud-Enabled application infrastructure, 2009″ was published on March 17. And in my opinion is does not really have much besides the common-sense discussion on how cloud/services approach to application delivery is poised to grow in mid-size market and is disruptive for traditional players: Microsoft, Oracle, IBM. I guess I could [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 23, 2009
“Cool vendors” reports have always been among my favorites, and Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing Management and Professional Services, 2009” paper published last week has a great overview of 5 select start-ups in the cloud computing space with Gartner’s take on their strengths and weaknesses. This time they looked at: Appirio – which provide [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 17, 2009
The 451 Group has published a quick report by Jay Lyman on the Cittio’s new monitoring solution for cloud-based systems. The report (called “Cittio floats open source cloud instrumentation and monitoring with Zeppelin“) is a good write-up and puts the context around the move and how it would affect both established and emerging players in [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 16, 2009
I’ve finally got a way to keep my eye on the cloud computing and SaaS reports coming from Gartner, Forrester, Burton Group, and The 451 Group, so if you get lost in the papers these folks are publishing – CloudEnterprise.info’s Analysts category should hopefully be what you need. Today we’ll have a quick look at [...]
Can I insure my Google Apps, please?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 11, 2009
Are online services ever going to be 100% secure? If not should the insurance industry kick in? A few days ago Google Apps had an issue with some Google Docs became accessible to other Google users beyond the security set on the docs. To quote from Google: As we noted in the Google Docs Help [...]