Comparing Costs of Different Cloud Computing Providers
The past month we have been trying to quantify the cost of moving some of our workloads into the cloud.…
SaaS Business Process Outsourcing Buying Attitude
Citrix just published the results of a survey on the purchasing behavior, perceptions, and attitudes towards Software-as-a-Service. The survey results…
Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Virtualization in the data center allows hardware to be reused for multiple services and provides a mechanism to extract more…
Windows Server on Amazon EC2
As soon as I finished yesterday's blog entry, I became aware of a posting by Amazon's CTO, Werner Vogels, where…
Google and Amazon as Benchmarkers
One of the most interesting aspects of cloud computing is the opportunity for benchmarking. Instead of paying market research firms…
Grid versus Cloud Computing
From the end user perspective, the short answer to the question "What is the difference between grid computing and cloud…
Dynamic IT
CIO Magazine just surveyed 173 IT business leaders to gauge what the common attitudes are towards cloud computing in the…
Bluehouse is in public beta
IBM announced cloud computing applications at Lotusphere in January of this year. A service called Bluehouse is a web-delivered social…
HPC is dead, long live HPC!
With the advent of web scale computing, genetics, and data mining for business intelligence the need for computer performance is…
IT as a Business: or IaaB
Whereas SaaS is predominantly a Business Process Outsourcing trend, Cloud Computing is predominantly an IT operation outsourcing trend. IBM and…
