It’s fun being on the sidelines watching this one! Steve Clayton from Microsoft was pretty chuffed to be able to blog about Apple’s MobileMe debacle. One could almost hear the glee in his words reporting that, for once something El Jobso touched didn’t turn to gold. He also got to
The blogosphere got in major panic this week when Amazon’s S3 online storage service went down for a number of hours. It seems there was around six hours of outage that had life threatening consequences – yes, worse than hospital power supplies being wiped out, worse than widespread transportation gridlock
Jeff Kaplan tries to clarify where he sees the intersect of cloud computing and SaaS. His post is in response to many people using the two terms pretty much interchangeably. Jeff says that; In my case, I view cloud computing as a broad array of web-based services aimed at allowing
Stacey Higginbotham wrote a provocative post that fired up a lot of people detailing 10 reasons why cloud computing won’t take of within enterprise. The post is great – but more importantly there are some exceptional responses from different players – both evangelists for and detractors of, cloud computing. The
Many have written about the barriers to true adoption of a cloud-based world. The biggest barrier is the lack of bandwidth and connectivity in various parts of the globe. It was great then to read Bill Gates’ thoughts about a diverse range of cloud based offerings, dependent on the capacity
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