Cyberthoughts

In David Linthicum's latest article , he had this quote from Barclays to substantiate his claim that dollars will shift from hardware pr...

Last week we saw AWS VP James Hamilton talk about how they are hosting data, transactions, and raw compute for companies at a scale like w...

This article by Simon Bisson at ZDNet points out that the Apple A7 chip that was just announced as part of the iPhone 5S (and most likely...

Clouds Bringing Suite Rain (pun intended) According to an IDG survey, top IT Mgt. continues to see value in cloud.  The following is a p...

I’ve been wanting to test out Amazon Web Services (AWS) Glacier storage service since it was announced in August 2012.  If you’ve been r...

Mike Elgan of InfoWorld wrote an interesting article about what he learned by going all-in on Google Apps, gMail, etc. What's surp...

[Updated 5/1/2014] In some ways, developers have done themselves a disservice in the tool department, like the shoemaker’s children goin...

I, like many others, received a letter from OfficeDrop, telling it’s customers they were closing the doors on the company.  To it’s cust...

I enjoyed this comment to the article Will HP Moonshot Ignite or fizzle .  Is this what cloud infrastructure is coming to? PeterNic   •...

According to a report published in McKinsey Quarterly, “ Givers take all: The hidden dimension of corporate culture ”, corporate perform...

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...