Google, Salesorce.com and the Application Cloud
So Google and Saleforce.com have teamed up by integrating Google Apps with the Saleforce platform. Company spokespeople are talking about “Cloud computing for the enterprise”… I’m not sure what Enterprise they speak of… Have you ever tried using Google Apps...
Putting the E in EC2
Amazon has been heavily promoting its elastic cloud computing (EC2) offering as of late. EC2 allows you to upload an image (operating system and pre-installed applications) into the “cloud” and specify memory and CPU requirements. While the solution has some...
Gordon Jackson | Technology Evangelist
coming to a conference near you...
Yes, your friendly neighborhood global technology evangelist is hitting the road and going on tour! I'll be speaking at a number of events hosted by our friends at Datacenter Dynamics as well as several Green IT conferences in the US...
Green utility cloud computing
Luis Maldonado | Director of Product Management
Today's Grid forecast: "Partly Cloudy"
I've read a number of discussions recently debating whether cloud computing will supplant grid computing as the preferred deployment environment for complex computation needs. Notwithstanding the clear value that cloud computing environments provide, I firmly believe that for various reasons...
It's a data center, not a development center
Last week, I listened to Donna Scott of Gartner describe some interesting poll results from the Gartner 2007 Data Center conference. The point that struck me most was that the largest percentage of respondents said their application teams, rather than...
