Posted on December 10th, 2008 by Steve
In a December 9th “chalk talk” session with Sun CTO Lew Tucker and Senior VP David Douglas, Sun announced plans to shutter its current Network.com service and introduce a new Cloud Computing business unit.
Included in their plans for the new division: the ability to purchase compute time on Sun’s server cloud with a credit [...]
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Posted on December 10th, 2008 by Steve
As more software vendors provide their services on the Cloud, and more people consider SaaS offerings, it’s worth noting that SaaS vendors will soon face the same kinds of problems that corporate IT has faced day-to-day for many years now.
As a person who has worked in IT for many years, these crude drawings represent [...]
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Posted on December 10th, 2008 by Steve
There was a great article in the Economist that I caught by way of InformationWeek that largely reinforced the ideas that I put forward earlier in my posts about the switch from IT CapEx to IT OpEx and the rise of SaaS and Cloud Computing, primarily pointing out that IT data center environments today [...]
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Posted on December 10th, 2008 by Steve
AOL released new aggregation features on their Bebo social networking site today. Similar to FriendFeed, the new features – called “social inbox” – allow you to aggregate content across multiple social services, including Twitter, Flickr and AIM instant messages.
CNET has a longer review of the new services here, some of which won’t debut [...]
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