When the Cloud Is Run on a Cloud
At first blush, it sounds like a mystic’s riddle, somewhere in the vicinity of the sound of one hand clapping. But in reality, it’s a setup that makes perfect sense: Rackspace runs its OpenStack cloud...
View ArticleHP’s Moonshot Could Lower Cloud Computing Costs
Hewlett-Packard doesn't shy away from taking a few cheap shots every now and again, and its latest line of servers, called Moonshot, proves it. HP has introduced a new line of servers that could be...
View ArticleLisbon Bound: NATO Network Enabled Capability Conference 2013
This week I will have the honor of attending the 2013 NNEC Conference at the Corinthia Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal. The NNEC conference is an annual event which has been sponsored by HQ Supreme Allied...
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IBM Debate Series - What’s Next in IT?
Next week I will be participating in the inaugural session of What’s Next in IT Debate Series, a new program of authentic debates and conversations on key technology topics. Sponsored by IBM, The...
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Global Interoperability Consortium's Cloud Computing Project
Managing and disseminating the rapidly increasing amount of geospatial data will be a huge challenge for governments and civilians responding to the world's next big disaster, Eric Vollmecke of the...
View ArticleWhy Cloud Computing Is Booming
That boom you hear? That's the cloud. Cloud computing is experiencing serious growth – even the Department of Defense is joining the party. However, some people are a little concerned about giving up...
View ArticleFusion-io Co-Founders Quit; Ex-HP M&A Guy Now CEO
Fusion-io’s two co-founders, CEO David Flynn and chief marketing officer Rick White, up and quit Wednesday sending the company’s stock into a nosedive, down better than 26% to $13.29 at noon, a record...
View ArticleCloudant Gets First Real Money
Boston-based Cloudant and its NoSQL distributed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), which have gone to the VC trough four times since the company was started in 2008, have gotten what appears to be their...
View ArticleFive Years of Cloud Musings!!
Hello World ! - April 18, 2008 I've been toying with the idea of doing a blog for about six months now. Initially I didn't see how any of my contributions to the blogosphere would matter to the world....
View ArticleCloud Computing for the Health of It
Cloud computing must have been brushing up on its bedside manner. HIPAA requirements now stipulate everyone in the health-care industry must begin migrating patient records and other data to cloud...
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Join Me at the Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit
Please join me at the Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit in Orlando, Florida, June 18-20, 2013, where my session topic will be "Cloud Service Integration: Increasing Business...
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Guest Blog: Sequestration and the Cloud
(This post was provided by Praveen Asthana, Chief Marketing Office of Gravitant, a cloud service brokerage and management company) Sequestration burst out of obscurity and entered our household...
View ArticleFathers of Clouds - A Tribute
For more than half a century, cloud computing has changed names more often than a Hollywood starlet. Utility computing. Time share. Thin client. SaaS. PaaS. IaaS. While concepts have been added and...
View ArticleNJVC Platform as a Service to Include Google Geospatial Services
NJVC® was selected by Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) to provide the platform as a service (PaaS) element of a cloud-computing-based humanitarian assistance and disaster response...
View ArticleCloud Viewed as Fed's Answer to Big Data Needs
Cloud computing is steadily working its way into the U.S. federal government, potentially simplifying access to information for the public, but also creating some consternation over who ultimately...
View ArticleDeconstructing Cloud: An Excellent Guide to the Cloud Computing World
On an almost daily basis, I'm approached for my views on "cloud computing technology". Although typically innocent in nature, I always cringe at the thought of enduring yet another hours long...
View ArticleCloud People: A Who's Who of Cloud Computing
Behind every cloud or cloud-based solution, there are real people...A robust ecosystem of solutions providers has emerged around cloud computing. But who are the CEOs & CTOs behind those providers,...
View ArticleLessons Learned: VA Cloud Email Termination
According to a Federal Computer Week article by Frank Konkel, The Department of Veterans Affairs terminated its five-year, $36 million cloud computing contract for email and calendaring services with...
View ArticleUSDA Plows New Ground, Becomes Cloud Service Provider
Technology sure does make strange bedfellows. The federal government’s newest cloud service provider is one that may elicit surprise. It’s the same agency that oversees farm policy and food safety –...
View ArticleAdaptive Computing Unveils Moab Cloud Optimizer Integration for HP CSA 3.2
Adaptive Computing on Tuesday announced the release of Moab Cloud Optimizer for HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) version 3.2. “With its out-of-the-box policies, Moab Cloud Optimizer helps IT...
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