Cyberthoughts

Do companies really know the total cost of local compute and storage?   This article in USA Today (hardly a tech mag) suggests that cloud...

To truly utilize the new paradigm of cloud computing’s scalable architecture, developers need to rethink their application design from the g...

Amazon is dropping prices again .   Is the cloud prepping for hockey stick growth ?  Maybe we are already there?   Another fun year in cloud...

(updated 12/12)  There has been a bit of a buzz regarding access to citizen and company data by the U.S government and the associated risks ...

A cottage industry of Cloud management tools has emerged to solve many of the issues companies face as they move to the cloud, like mul...

IT has a history of solving problems, but in the process, creating new problems that must be dealt with in the future.  For example, back ...

There’s a lot of media coverage on the use of cloud computing by this year’s election teams and as a GigaOM article points out: No matter...

In this article in InfoWorld , Gartner makes an interesting point.   Data loss is a bigger risk than security in the cloud.   They almost se...

I found the comments in this InfoWorld article  about the capabilities of MySQL vs a noSQL DB interesting. "A lot of people think the...

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...