Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 26, 2010
What do you do once you become the top bookseller and web-startup hoster? You shoot for the enterprise market! That seemed to be the sentiment of Amazon’s Cloud for the Enterprise event which the company held in Sofitel Los Angeles last week. The pitch boiled down to: Amazon’s datacenters are the most reliable, secure, and [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 14, 2010
Maybe not just yet unless you are an extremely large hosting company or enterprise with big IT and research and development (R&D) budgets. To re-cap, this week at its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) Microsoft announced that together with their hardware partners they will start offering (some time later this year as a limited release for [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 15, 2009
It’s probably about time for me to provide a quick overview of what we at Quest Software are doing in the cloud computing area. There are two main “cloud” directions for us: Using the cloud for our own offerings. Enabling public and private clouds. 1. Using Clouds Using Cloud means providing our products as a [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 16, 2009
Here I continue the 2009 predictions series started with my IaaS/PaaS 2009 post. In the world of cloud computing we are living in very exciting times. Cloud Computing is the buzz word of the day even though the segment is barely two years old. Interest in private clouds is even more astonishing considering that these [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 1, 2008
Is someone going to step in and provide commercial support for the Eucalyptus open-source project basically following the Red Hat model which made Linux commercially successful and generated good revenue for Red Hat? Here’s what I am thinking based on what I saw and heard at the Cloud Computing Expo (see my notes here): We [...]