Gartner: SaaS Matures, Merges Into The Cloud
What is exactly the difference between software-as-a-service (SaaS) and a cloud application? If you aren’t confronted with both topics frequently, this question is likely to be confusing and you may be tempted to simply answer that there is no differ...
Cloud Moving Into The Enterprise Fast
Savvis this morning posted the results of a new survey, which indicates that decisions makers and executives are more and more looking to the cloud as a way to recover from the global economic downturn.
Facebook Apps Are Going Mobile
As Facebook is getting ready to announce a registered user base of 500 million, there is also some interesting news that the company will be enabling the development of mobile applications for the social network. While most of Facebook’s services are...
The Linux of The Cloud? Rackspace OpenStack.
One of the leading IaaS (infrastructure as a service) providers, Rackspace, today said that it is open sourcing its cloud platform. OpenStack represents the full software stack behind the company’s cloud servers as well as cloud files offerings. Open...
Ze Frank (And Memari) Get Featured In A TechCrunch Article
e Frank, the popular video blogger and internet personality, recently announced that he is getting $500,000 in VC money to fund a new startup for social video games. The startup is in its early stages and still doesn't even have a website.
Amazon EC2, HPC Edition
We have been proponents of Amazon’s EC2 service from the very beginning and – warning: shameless self-promotion – have built some pretty impressive applications on top of it. Check out the Sweety High social networking site, for example. No...
VMware Embraces Cloud Computing
VMware has just announced a new version of its virtualization platform vSphere. It may not be too surprising that the new version 4.1 is introduced with a focus on cloud computing abilities and benefits, but it is remarkable nevertheless. VMware says v...
U.S. Government Sees Value In Mobile Apps
You just know that a trend is significant when the government is jumping on the train, even if we have to say that we are seeing much more apparent consumer technology focus in the U.S. government than ever before. However, we think it is noteworthy to...
Just How Mainstream Are App Phones?
Smartphones, or app phones, are dominating the headlines these days and simply judging by that, there is nothing else but smartphones anymore. To make a business case, we like a bit more solid data that goes beyond a press release. Have you ever wonder...
Amazon EC2 Gets Intrusion Prevention
More security options for cloud services are a logical new step for cloud services as more users are stepping up to the cloud - including government agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau. I already wrote about McAfee, but Sourcefire is actually offer...
Is Federal IT Ready To Move To The Cloud?
Earlier this week, a wide range of companies testified to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the question whether it makes sense to bring government IT infrastructures to the cloud. The key concerns of the hearing surrounded sec...
Malware Protection Moves To The Cloud
McAfee announced its first cloud-based malware protection software. Called “SaaS Web Protection” the software promises to offer traditional reporting and protection capabilities malware, spam, trojans and other Internet-borne threats. However, ther...
