Archive for April 2009
Is McKinsey wrong on cloud ROI?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: April 17, 2009
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McKinsey published a report this week claiming that their research shows that for organizations with revenues above $500 million using external cloud computing resources are more expensive than using their own datacenters: $366 a month per unit for cloud compared with $150 a month for traditional datacenter. I had received quite a few emails with [...]
IDC: System Management going SaaS
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: April 15, 2009
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“Worldwide System Management SaaS 2009 Vendor Analysis: Economic Crisis Creates Opportunities” is an excellent recent report by IDC. Software as a Service started in consumer web, and then expanded into end-user-oriented business and collaboration sites (Salesforce.com, Google Apps). The question is whether the model can go from this to administrative tools so IT people can [...]
Will Cloud make SOA mainstream?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: April 14, 2009
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Gartner has just posted a quick report on SOA and Cloud Computing: “Cloud Computing Will Cement the Mainstream Role of SOA” (SOA stands for Service-Oriented Architecture). The report argues that Cloud Computing is an evolution of multiple technologies “including virtualization, workload hosting, consumerization of IT, Web architectures, metadata-based software engineering, grid computing, extreme transaction processing, [...]
Can cloud make you MORE compliant?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: April 6, 2009
The common word out there about cloud computing/SaaS and security/regulatory compliance are that these don’t go well together. However, things don’t have to be that way. Doing security right can cost a lot of money and public cloud services could carry some of these costs. Thus, there probably will be a point in time when [...]
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- Geek Project of the Day May 18, 2012Just in time for the weekend. Here is your geek project of the day. Because sometimes, a regular grill is not enough. We want one. Going to “borrow” a friend’s car and turn it into a grill.
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