Cyberthoughts

I haven’t written much about "Platform as a Service" (PaaS) up to this point but given Salesforce.com’s growing presence the...

Updated: I came across a white paper published by CloudPassage , most likely in the attempt to drive interest in their cloud security pro...

I sat in on a VMware call today where they reviewed the new features in VMware 5.1.  The one that caught my eye was the ability to use the...

I was on my way to a lunch appointment when I started thinking of the headache of managing patching in the cloud.  More importantly how wo...

Rackspace, a cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) vendor, has been ramping up their advertising and recently announced that t...

I recently wrote about HP’s use OpenStack as part of their newly announced cloud hosting environment and how it could help feed their con...

According to a Google’s BLOG , in a survey of 800 CFOs, 81% think (AKA a believe) that completely implementing cloud technology would impr...

This is a good article on how to close security holes for Google Apps users.  At the core is “two-factor authentication”.   I’ve written...

NASA’s use of Amazon’s AWS is interesting.  I knew that NASA had a private cloud so I didn’t expect them to use AWS.  I’m guessing this...

After taking a much needed vacation I thought I would post an update to catch up on some notable events.  Although Google has been in th...

The allure of the cloud for faster deployments of new capabilities with potentially lower equipment and labor costs are hard to turn away ...

 Soft, supple and quiet my new keyboard is.  I feel kind of silly doing a review of a keyboard but it is the main input interface on my comp...

Building a “Private Cloud” within your data center has a lot of potential return on investment (ROI).   David Linthicom’s article , and ot...

(Updated 3/10/2012)   There are a number of significant things at play that may indicate the start of a hockey stick growth spurt in clou...

Since I wrote my last two articles on Amazon Web Services (My intro to AWS and Using AWS ), Amazon has continued to pile on capabilities ...