The Goldman Sachs SaaS scorecard
The past couple weeks I have been peering over reams and reams of investment analysis regarding 'cloud computing'. It has…
Comparing the Cost Continued…
The next step was to select our benchmarks and calculate their costs. We extracted two workloads that are common to…
Web Server as the smallest unit of Cloud Computing
To demystify the concept of cloud computing, I would like to assert that a web server is the smallest unit…
Cloud Computing Predictions for 2009
GoGrid's Michael Sheehan just published his cloud computing predictions for 2009. 1- Clouds reduce the effect of the recession.The basic…
2009 – a promising year?
After being on a semi-hiatus for about two weeks and being overall holiday time, I don't have much to report…
“Ford is evidently hoping it can win back customers with…
“Ford is evidently hoping it can win back customers with technology that could take some of the stress out of…
Apple’s iLife ‘09 software suite will include a…
Apple’s iLife ‘09 software suite will include a feature called Faces that finds and organizes a gallery of a user’s…
A Cheaper (and Smarter) Price Tag“Reams of paper, hours…
A Cheaper (and Smarter) Price Tag “Reams of paper, hours of labor and barrels of ink are typically needed for…
Some of us like to name things
If you haven’t already, ask around: Exactly what is “business intelligence”? Some say it’s all about business decision making, and…
Look Smarter Than You Are
We talk a lot about the ‘foundational’ technologies of Enterprise Performance Management, which include: Enterprise Planning Statutory & Management Consolidation…