Amid preparations for Thanksgiving feasts here in the U.S., a couple recent predictions from IT industry experts could leave vendors with much less to be thankful for this year. I’ve seen more than one pundit say that even though cloud computing is the Next Big Thing for IT, it will, in the end, mean that less money is being spent on IT.Is cloud computing really going to mean doing more with less
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Is cloud a turkey for IT vendors? Thinking through its impact on end user IT spending
Posted on 22:16 by Unknown
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Salesforce.com and CA: using Force.com for agile and SaaS-y results
Posted on 11:24 by Unknown
I don't normally spend too much time on application development topics, but CA has a bit of interesting SaaS-related news coming out of Dreamforce today that I thought was worth noting. And when an event bills itself as The Cloud Computing Event of the Year, I guess it's something I should at least mention.Despite salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff’s marathon keynote on Wednesday, he – and the
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Two cloud computing Rorschach tests: 'legacy clouds' and the lock-in lesson
Posted on 21:38 by Unknown
This week's San Francisco Cloud Computing Club gathering was a great place to meet some of the movers and shakers in the cloud computing market (or at least the ones within a short drive of San Francisco). The event's concept was to spend some quality time talking through cloud computing issues with a crowd of people who spend all day thinking about the cloud and working on making it a
Friday, 6 November 2009
Fumble! What not to do at a cloud computing conference
Posted on 10:13 by Unknown
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