
What’s Your Cloud Type?
In the 1940’s a psychologist Dr. William Sheldon came up with a classification of body types – endomorphs, who have a high percentage of bodyfat; mesomorphs, who are muscular and ectomorphs, lacking either much fat or muscle tissue. While this was intended as a general framework Dr. Sheldon also stated most people were a mixture […]

Recession Is Good For Cloud Computing – Microsoft Agrees
Image by Getty Images via Daylife When the whole world was gloomy with onset of current recession, we (the members of cloud computing community) are happy about it in a way. Every single cloud computing evangelist will tell you that recession is good for cloud computing. The reason is obvious CapEx is converted into OpEX […]

Economic and Environmental advantages of Cloud Computing
Image via Wikipedia Last month, I was talking to a former client who runs managed hosting by renting network resources in a local data center. He was talking to me about his difficulties in disposing off the pre-owned "old" servers. I was telling him that he should put those servers to use under a cloud […]