Cyberthoughts

In my last cloud article, “ Zynga and the cost of agility ”, I referenced an article about Zynga’s return to AWS  While at at AWS re:Inve...

I’ve been running a network attached storage (NAS) device for many years.  I’ve really enjoyed the Netgear ReadyNAS product as an  easy t...

This article from RW was interesting .  I remember I did a double-take when hearing that Zynga was leaving AWS but there was general agre...

When I was at the 2014 AWS re:Invent, IBM plastered busses with advertisements that their cloud business had surpassed Amazon’s.  People ...

Although I'm getting this out a bit late, here is my annual review of the AWS re:Invent love-in cloud.  I was excited to see what thi...

I had the opportunity to attend Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing conference, “AWS re:Invent” at the end of 2013.  I had a lot of...

I just finished reading an article by Brandon Butler titled “ Is the Paas market as we know it dying? ”.  I don’t think PaaS market will di...

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...