Coming on the heels of the Cisco-BMC announcement, the news of an IBM/Sun merger and the simultaneous announcement of Sun’s Open Cloud Platform are not mutually exclusive events. They’re all part of the ongoing race to capture the Enterprise Cloud. The elephants are dancing. The announcement continues the pattern of rapid marketplace adoption of Cloud … Read more
Here’s an interesting interview with our friend Nick Carr in which he once again highlights important long-term strategic issues for enterprise IT. I’ve pulled out some of his quotes for quick review: – “..there is a basic conflict of interest that IT departments face as they think about the cloud, and that’s true, of course, … Read more
HP Upline, Yahoo Briefcase, and AOL XDrive have already closed or are closing their online file services. HP suffered a long outage recently, but in all likelihood their main reason for closing the business was a lack of short-term profitable financial results. This is most likely the case for Yahoo. These online file services are … Read more
Back in May of 2006, Amazon, introduced Simple Storage Service (S3) as file storage for their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) computing environment. Despite some short-comings, the pricing flexibility and the web-scalability offered by S3 made it an instant hit with the software development community. For the first time, a large pool of storage was available … Read more
Hi and welcome to CloudStorageStrategy.com. I’m Steve Lesem, the founder of this site, and co-founder, CEO and President of Mezeo Software, the developer of the leading deployable platform for cloud storage. Our story begins a few years ago when Gray Hall and I worked together at VeriCenter – an industry leader in managed hosting, co-location, … Read more
Bechtel is a great example of the “enterprise cloud” version of Cloud Computing – building its own enterprise cloud rather than using a cloud computing service provider. With projects in 50 countries around the world, and teams collaborating around the clock, Bechtel’s challenge is to operate a seamless Project Service Network (PSN) authorizing employees, contractors, … Read more
Sure there’s plenty of room for discussion on the specifics, but the business benefits of Cloud Computing will make it an inevitable part of your future. Bechtel is a great example of the “enterprise cloud” version of Cloud Computing – building its own enterprise cloud rather than using a cloud computing service provider. With projects … Read more
The recent strategic partnership between Cisco Systems and BMC Software has led to a lot of speculation. Here is my take on why this partnership makes sense from a technology and business perspective: Any time someone serious about service delivery offers up their objections to the potential success of cloud computing, it goes something like … Read more
It seems like there is a lot of concern over the Open Cloud Manifesto. Some people are up in arms over the way things are being handled. Apparently, a number of people have offered up their time (and willingness to fly to NY) to help with this meeting and been flatly denied any possibility of … Read more
The trust issue will not go away. In a bit of a publicity stunt, the Electronic Privacy Information Center asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google’s Cloud Computing Services, specifically concerning: a. the adequacy of Google’s privacy and security safeguards regarding storage of personal information on its Cloud Computing Services; and b. the sufficiency … Read more