Archive for June 2009
A VM running in EC2 is not SaaS
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 23, 2009
Just because you have software packaged as a virtual machine and running in Amazon EC2 does not mean you have a “cloud” offering.
As easy as it sounds in most cases when a vendor claims they have their software available as a service/cloud offering – it is just that: a virtual machine image (such as Amazon [...]
Government adoption of cloud growing
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 17, 2009
That’s what Gartner’s Andrea Di Maiofound in his recent report: “Government in the Cloud: Much More Than Computing“.
This might surprise initially – after all Forrester just told us that public sector was lagging in the cloud computing adoption rush. However, Andrea builds up a pretty impressive case of why cloud trend is inevitable for [...]
Cloud Computing MORE popular with Enterprise than SMBs
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 12, 2009
Forrester’s Frank Gillet just published results of a big survey on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS – like Amazon’s compute cloud or internal cloud-like datacenter) acceptance across geographies and company sizes titled “Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong About Cloud IaaS“.
As the title implies the survey has a few very interesting results.
First and foremost, they found that bigger customers are [...]
Garter finds a ‘Killer App’ for Cloud Computing
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 10, 2009
“APaaS: A Step to a ‘Killer App’ for Cloud Computing?” is a great report by Yefim V. Natis and Eric Knipp published by Gartner last week.
Yefim and Eric, as it seems to me, managed to articulate the very essence of what makes Cloud Computing so disruptive:
“Easy to learn and use application development environment, with runtime [...]
My cloud interview at TechEd
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 3, 2009
Technet Edge posted the interview David Tesar made with me while at TechEd last month. Check it out here.
Dmitry Sotnikov of Quest Software, gives us his perspective on services in the cloud and answers some of the frequently asked questions in his sessions such as:
- When is the right time to move to the cloud?
- [...]
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