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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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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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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SugarCRM introduced a new “Cloud Connectors” feature with release of its SurgarCRM 5.2 product, announced on Monday this week.  The new Cloud Connectors feature allows SugarCRM to fetch data from third-party sources around the web.  One of the first demonstrations of this was integration with LinkedIn, allowing users to launch a window directly from [...]

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When it comes to predicting the future, the shorter ahead you try to predict, the better you’ll generally be at getting it right.  Graeme Philipson at the Sydney Morning Herald published an article outlining his ten prophecies for what will happen with IT over the next ten years.  Of particular interest to me was [...]

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According to a survey conducted by Intel that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, 50% of 200 companies surveyed said they found the use of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace as either “a major security concern” or “somewhat of a security concern.”
Of the companies surveyed, of course the majority [...]

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First off, a few disclaimers: no, I didn’t just slam my hand down on the keyboard to write the title of this post.  And no, I don’t have much of a background in accounting or finance, but I have spent a good chunk of my career working in IT operations, managing budgets and expenditures.
One [...]

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