The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why
Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. The money slide is the graphic below. The chart shows three scarce resources and their improvements over time. The top line is available storage (S), the middle line represents processing power (following Moore’s law) or (P) and the [...]
Alcatel Jumps In With Network Services On The Cloud
Alcatel-Lucent (previous CloudAve coverage), a leading vendor in mobile and networking space, last week announced Alcatel-Lucent Cloudband, set of network services offered through the cloud. Networking is a significant part of cloud infrastructure but it has attracted much less media attention than its counterparts, compute and storage. Part of the reason is somewhat of a [...]
Uptime Offers Monitoring and Capacity Planning for VMware
As we move into a world where organizations make more and more usage of heterogeneous infrastructure resources, providers that offer those same organizations tools to ensure the performance of those resources will become more and more important. Into that role steps uptime software, an existing player in the IT systems performance space that is releasing [...]
10 things to think about with Cloud Computing and Forensics
I was recently invited to write the first chapter of an upcoming book about cloud computing and computer/network forensics. While I am excited about being published, and of course you should go buy the book when it comes out Cloud Computing forensics needs to have a wider discussion in the information security field, as there [...]
Disruption is in the Minds of the Users
I’ve written before about two distinct approached to SaaS. SaaS/s – where the offering merely substitutes the incumbent offerings, and SaaS/v where the product adds a significant value into the mix. These two classifications, while admittedly fairly chunky, fall within the thrust of Clayton Christensen’s book “The Innovator’s Dilemma”, in which Christensen contends that there [...]
Telcos and SaaS – An End to End SLA?
Recently The Unreasonablemen posted a critique of one of Krish’s posts. I’ll leave aside some of the more caustic comments he makes but focus on the thrust of what he said. To paraphrase the post, The UM is critical of those cloud computing commentators that seem to dismiss as a minor point the fact that [...]
