Google is innovating again with a new product  — and, from my point of view,  the result will be an easier, more integrated experience for cloud users, especially if you’re a small businesses testing out the cloud in the hopes of further ramping up at some time in the future. Google on February 25th released… Read the full post

Lots of organizations are wary of relying too much on virtualization of computing — that is, creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as a hardware platform, operating system, a storage device or network resources. Some would like to make the switch bit by bit to see how things go — and… Read the full post

San Jose, CA – October 20, 2010 – Paid Monitor, the leading provider of the world’s first Cloud-based network and application monitoring suite, today announced a significant new product launch – the Paid Monitor Logs, on-demand system events log monitoring and analysis service. Paid Monitor Logs enables IT managers and system administrators to be alerted when critical issues… Read the full post

    The New York Times published a very interesting piece the other day. It featured comments by Google CEO Eric E. Schmidt last winter on how an international company could bundle the processing power of thousands of its computers to allow employees on different continents, who speak different languages, to speak by phone and… Read the full post

Printing is yet another example of an industry benefiting from the cloud, according to a recent article I saw on ZDNet. The idea is to be able to print from anywhere, and more companies are expected to provide and sign up for on-demand Web print services, industry watchers say. One company, Lexmark, is particularly enthused about it.… Read the full post

Know any cloud skeptics in your circle of friends and professional associates that would be okay with sharing their views with the world? Cloud expert and fellow blogger Phil Wainewright is staging something called the “Summer Slam 2010,” a webcast in which organizer Appirio, a cloud integrator, Wainewright and others will debate  the future of… Read the full post

Perhaps some people see cloud computing in terms that are too simplistic, e.g., you adopt or don’t, it’s one kind or nothing. Not ING Americas, the U.S. division of the Dutch banking firm. I recently read in a banking magazine that ING was first attracted to the concept of cloud computing when it began estimating… Read the full post

What would you rather carry on your back — textbooks or lighter than air apps and data? When I went to school (six miles each way in the snow and rain, LOL), every year the books got heavier. Now, students can look forward to easy trips home with courses online — brought to them by… Read the full post