
5 Key Essentials of Cloud Workloads Migration
The benefits of migrating workloads between different cloud providers or between private and public clouds can only truly be redeemed with an understanding of the cloud business model and cloud workload management. It seems that cloud adoption has reached the phase where advanced cloud users are creating their own hybrid solutions or migrating between clouds […]

Data Blackholes – Wake Up Before It Is Too Late
One of the biggest concerns still haunting enterprises is about giving up control over their data to third party services. They are worried that they have absolutely no control over the data once it leaves their hands and they are yet to find a fool proof way (except for encryption which causes considerable inconvenience and […]

Google Wants More Of Your Data On Their Cloud But …..
Google today announced that it is opening up their cloud infrastructure to let you store and process your geospatial data. They announced a new web based offering called Google Earth Builder, available in the later part of this year, which will let organizations upload their geospatial data to Google Cloud and let the employees view […]

The Looming Data Wars
Last week, Google asked Facebook to get their hands off the data stored in their service. Google felt that Facebook is taking data in programmatically from other services while not reciprocating in the same way. Google should have made this move 2-3 years back but it is better late than never. Google supports data portability. […]

Download Your Facebook Data: I Got A Hint One Week Back
Facebook is holding an event today and one of the big news coming out of the event is regarding their move towards data portability. According to Techcrunch, At today’s Facebook event in Palo Alto, Mark Zuckerberg just announced a feature that allows users to port their data off of Facebook, “People own and have control […]

Google Sites Targets Enterprises With Its New API
Google has taken a big step towards luring enterprises to use Google Sites instead of Microsoft Sharepoint. Yesterday Google Enterprise Blog announced the release of Google Sites API. This move not only ensures the potential enterprise adoption of Google Sites, it also helps Google elevate their entire Google Apps product to be more attractive for […]
Looking Back At 2008
We are in the last day of 2008 (well, 2009 might already be there for some folks including our own Ben). Yesterday, a friend of mine asked me to identify two significant Cloud related events from 2008. I offered my opinion to him and I also thought it will be a good way to end […]

Create Your App On Zoho Creator And Deploy It On Google App Engine
Disclaimer: Zoho is the sponsor of this blog but this is my independent personal opinion. I had access to the same documents that were provided to other bloggers. Today, Zoho made a major announcement about the integration between Zoho Creator and Google App Engine. Now, one can create an app on Zoho Creator and deploy […]