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When it comes to cloud computing, the good news for companies offering everything that isn’t software as a service is that there’s still plenty of time to get your offerings into the market, according to a report released today from Forrester that takes the current temperature […] Read more »

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Cloud computing may be the most overhyped information technology term in recent memory, surpassed only by the ubiquitous Web 2.0 moniker. As a venture capitalist focused on investing in the infrastructure and platform-as-a-service segments of the cloud, this hype has prompted a slew of startups to flood […] Read more »

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“Cloud computing” has easily replaced “Web 2.0” as the current trendy buzzword. The state of California is even turning to it for government systems. I have to say, however, that I have serious reservations about heavily implementing cloud computing in my own work flow. I believe […] Read more »

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Consider the following scenario: An employee leaves your company or a virtual team member moves on, and the circumstances have been less than ideal. What do you do to make sure that you keep your company’s (and your clients’) confidential information safe, when someone who is […] Read more »

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[qi:gigaom_icon_cloud-computing] With the annual VMworld confab coming next week, we are bound to come away thinking that virtualization is the guiding light to take us to the promised land of cloud computing. The reality is different. Virtualization and cloud computing aren’t always the answer. But we […] Read more »

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On Aug. 26, 2009, Amazon announced a new initiative: the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Essentially, the new service enables a company to extend its internal data center to incorporate Amazon EC2 compute instances — it’s as though the perimeter of the data center has bulged out to incorporate a set of AWS compute resources. All traffic between the data center and the EC2 instances in the VPC runs over an encrypted virtual private network, ensuring that the traffic is secure and private. Tools commonly used within data centers, like traffic analyzers and intrusion detection, can be used on the Virtual Private Cloud. The net effect is that companies can incorporate scalable, cheap computing into their existing compute arrangements and treat the VPC resources as though they reside within the data center. The new services hold the potential for making enterprises that are reluctant to trust public cloud computing more comfortable and thereby increase acceptance of cloud computing. This service, by itself, does not address all aspects of “privatizing” a public cloud; the issue of securing persistent storage within Amazon still remains and must be addressed at the EC2 instance level rather than via a general AWS Service. Nevertheless, this is a significant announcement and one that hold the potential of increasing corporate adoption of AWS. This note looks at further implications of the announcement, what questions are left to be answered, and what to expect next from both Amazon and its competitors. Read more »

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A new GigaOM Pro report from Analytico’s Tom Trainer, “The Future of Data Center Storage” (subscription required), could not have come at a better time. The report examines key storage trends, as well as what overall IT initiatives are driving them and what industry leaders are […] Read more »

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Utilities are raking in stimulus funds and smart meter manufacturers are working feverishly to imbue the grid with the smarts to redistribute the electrical load down to the household level when consumption rates spike. Envision automatically time shifting that EV charging or dish washing cycle to ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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The proliferation of standards bodies and other groups focusing on cloud computing makes it difficult to believe any one organization can deliver truly valuable, business-level information. In many cases, their scopes are too specialized. The work might be great, but it needs to make its way […] Read more »

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Even with the inaugural CloudWorld conference taking place Aug. 12-13, it was a relatively slow week in terms of vendor news (press announcements usually pour out of IDG shows, but this event was, well, different). However, the announcements that did emerge from San Francisco’s Moscone Center ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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The adoption of cloud services on the part of enterprise IT is still in the nascent stage. Enterprise IT departments continue to see cloud services as more appropriate for applications being written primarily by the Web 2.0 crowd –- if you want to build a new […] Read more »

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With two major acquisitions announced today — the $420 million acquisition of SpringSource by VMware and Facebook buying Friendfeed for $50 million, I almost forgot to note that two good friends of this blog have switched jobs. Doug Cutting, creator of open-source software framework Hadoop,has left […] Read more »

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[qi:gigaom_icon_cloud-computing] When I spoke with U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra last month, he outlined a pragmatic approach to the federal technology infrastructure that involved wanting to adopt a hybrid model of data centers and cloud computing solutions. Buying infrastructure as a service instead of banking solely on […] Read more »

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Rackspace this week joined the ranks of those companies offering virtual machines that are hosted on a pool of dedicated servers. What’s curious, however, is that Rackspace refers to these setups as private clouds, yet lists them under its managed hosting offerings, not its cloud hosting ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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Many times, we want to find ways to give back, be more socially responsible, or make our lives more about service, but running a business can make it seem impossible to find the time to do anything other than the task immediately in front of us.

How can we find a way (and the time) to do more good in the world while still keeping up with the demands of our businesses? One solution, focus on one trait at a time.

First, make a list of all the traits you would like be (generous, responsible, helpful, supportive, etc.).

Under each item, list ways you can incorporate more of that particular trait into your daily life. For example, if you want to be more responsible within your community, you might consider sponsoring an area youth program or volunteering to maintain a local park.

Finally, set aside time each day and week to devote to your commitment. Even 15-30 minutes a day can make a big difference. If you could commit to just 15 minutes a day, 5 days per week, at the end of the year, you would have contributed more than 65 hours of your time to improving the world around you. That’s more than a week and a half (full time) of your attention! Read more »

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The Palm Pre is new, so I am still learning tips and tricks about using it. I spend a fair bit of time combing through online user forums for those tidbits of useful information. I stumbled across a real gem this weekend that I just have […] Read more »

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Cloud computing has taken a lot of hits lately, not all of which are deserved, and some of which are just flat-out misguided. The latest accusation — that cloud computing stifles software innovation — came at a grand scale via a New York Times column by ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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It used to be that large corporations were the biggest boosters of new and cool technologies; more recently the consumer has been driving technology trends. But with the timing of an economic recovery still uncertain and VC dollars hard to come by, it may be the […] Read more »

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If an IT trend is legitimate when the old guard, which makes plenty of money selling traditional solutions to risk-averse customers, fully embraces it, cloud computing established its legitimacy during the second quarter. Apart from the countless startups and software companies rolling out cloud products, the ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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Microsoft and Rackspace both made much cloud computing news this week; the former by announcing pricing and details for its Azure platform, and the latter by opening up its Cloud Servers APIs. Both companies have large customer bases and strong reputations, so the real question as ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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Cloudbursting is an approach to handling spikes in demand that overwhelm enterprise computing resources by acquiring additional resources from a cloud services provider. It’s a little like having unexpected houseguests and not enough beds for them to sleep in; some of them will have to be […] Read more »

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[qi:gigaom_icon_cloud-computing] Microsoft is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build out its next generation of data centers to host its cloud computing offering, Windows Azure Platform. While the company is clearly innovative in its data center designs and plans, the true reason behind its push […] Read more »

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Who is using the cloud, and how, has been a hot topic for some time, but getting any reliable numbers is no easy feat. That’s why I view the latest cloud computing adoption predictions by Forrester and Gartner with a skeptical ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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[qi:gigaom_icon_cloud-computing] Every so often, one (or more) of our readers chastises me for being way too Apple-centric in my view of the world. Frankly, I can’t help it. Why argue with something that looks great and functions flawlessly (at least most of the time)? That is […] Read more »

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We’ve debated HTC’s headphone solution in the past, and while some don’t mind the mini-USB adapter often found on these handsets, it’s all about to change. MobileCrunch recently got this comment from an HTC representative: “The vast majority of devices we launch after Hero will have […] Read more »

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For both providers and customers of cloud technology, these are exciting times, and yet, in the midst of all of the energy and confusion that the cloud inspires, I can’t help but think that we’ve been here before. I see remarkable similarities between today’s adoption cycle […] Read more »

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Is there a need for business specialty-focused clouds or should we stick with the current one-size-fits-all cloud model? GigaOM’s Stacey Higginbotham posited this question to a panel today, who unanimously supported the move towards specialized clouds, but agreed that some uniformity is needed among future models. Read more »

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Today we are live-streaming Structure 09, our second annual conference devoted to all things cloud computing. As Om said in his opening remarks this morning: Last year companies were just taking about the cloud, this year we’re living the reality. If you’re unable to join us […] Read more »

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Cloud infrastructure services are particularly good at supporting variable demand and peaks with unpredictable timing or amplitude. Peaks are a challenge for CIOs, because forecasting too low may lead to poor performance or service unavailability, and guessing too high means paying for unneeded capacity. Peaking through […] Read more »

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Moore’s Law has enabled new applications by powering computing on an exponential price/performance curve. But increasingly, the proliferation of a new generation of large-scale applications is being constrained by another price/performance curve that hasn’t shown much improvement: IT operations and the cost of delivery. To create […] Read more »

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Enterprise-grade private cloud computing could take a big step forward with the introduction of Platform Computing’s new cloud management software, Platform ISF. The casual IT follower might never have heard of Platform, but for the better part of 20 years, the company has been proving the […] Read more »

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Another word for a low-hanging cloud is fog. I think that pretty accurately describes where the IT industry is when it comes to the cloud. Everyone has a different definition. Some further confuse the situation by using cloud as a new label on old technologies. Let […] Read more »

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The cloud promises to change the way businesses, governments and consumers access, use and move data. For many organizations, a big selling point in cloud infrastructure services is migrating massive data sets to relieve internal storage requirements, leverage vast computing power, reduce or contain their data […] Read more »

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Thanks to countless videos of the Iranian uprising now being streamed on its system, YouTube may suddenly seem to be at the center of international news. But from the company’s perspective, YouTube spokesman Scott Rubin insisted to me in a phone interview this afternoon, it’s more […] Read more »

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Many of the services we use now will eventually be web-based or “in the cloud.” People who use services like MobileMe will increasingly see more of their data and “work” being done out there in the cloud. The GigaOM Network will be hosting the second annual […] Read more »

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As businesses try to grow and remain viable, they need to know that money isn’t everything. CIOs need to take advantage of cloud services in order to balance what I’ll call the six FACETS of IT: flexibility, availability, cost, experience, timeliness and security. Read more »

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Many of the web apps that we cover here on WebWorkerDaily wouldn’t have made it off the ground without the scalability and flexibility offered by cloud computing. It’s one of the main reasons that we’ve seen an explosion in the number and variety of web apps […] Read more »

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While we tend to focus on the consumer space here, many of the great products we review, use or buy wouldn’t be worth as much without the infrastructure and services behind them. That’s why I’m calling attention to our second annual Structure conference on June 25, […] Read more »

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Last year, our parent company, the GigaOM Network, held its first Structure conference looking at the future of cloud computing and how on-demand computing infrastructure will change web businesses. This month, Structure’s back and will be featuring awesome speakers like Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Akamai […] Read more »

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