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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 18, 2009
Jay Heiser and David Gootzit from Gartner have just published an excellent report on “Trusted SaaS Offerings for Secure Collaboration“. The report is really valuable for anyone either building clouds or cloud-related products, or considering to move sensitive data to a SaaS application. The key areas they look into are: List of typical SaaS applications [...]