Editorial Team

The free CloudLayer iPhone application is now live at the iTunes App Store. You can click on this link to take you right to it in either iTunes or on the iPhone directly. This will allow you to register for a 1 GB CloudLayer storage service, that includes 1GB of storage.

For some time now, we have been making the case that Cloud Storage is a disruptive innovation, a game changer in its category. By stating this, we are of course employing Clayton Christensen’s now famous theories on disruptive innovation (refer to his books: The Innovator’s Dilemma, The Innovator’s Solution, and Seeing What’s Next) His theory … Read more

The concept of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been around for a long time, and some people believe it has not fulfilled its promise. To the contrary, SOA is well on its way to fulfilling its promise and the rise of cloud computing infrastructure is an important step in this process. In fact, cloud computing … Read more

The current issue of InfoStor contains an article by Jeff Boles, “Use Cases Make the Case for Cloud Storage,” in which he provides some key examples illustrating why we at CloudStorageStrategy.com believe certain key principles will shape the future of the cloud storage industry and cloud computing more generally. Specifically, the article highlights three things: … Read more

A recent SmartMoney article tells us that Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect, is concerned that cloud services could undermine the company’s margins over the long term: “The margins on (online) services aren’t what the margins on software are… It will increase our profits, it will increase our revenue, but you won’t have the margin.” … Read more

From Tier1 Research: NaviSite, a provider of managed hosting services to the enterprise and SMB market, is doing what many hosting companies are doing these days: getting into cloud computing. NaviSite is using Mezeo Software’s Cloud Storage Platform software as part of its effort to build out cloud computing services. Dan Golding, Vice President and … Read more

Recently, The Planet published a white paper comparing Cloud Storage performance as offered by The Planet (which uses Nirvanix), Amazon S3 and Rackspace CloudFiles. It did a nice job of creating a performance-oriented benchmark, comparing Cloud Storage file upload and download time for the three services. While it is necessary to understand this factor associated … Read more

Many Cloud Computing pundits have predicted that the early adopters will be largely comprised of small and mid-sized businesses. Some new data from Forrester suggests that won’t be the case. According to Forrester’s Frank E. Gillett in Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong About Cloud IaaS, one out of four large companies plan to use an external … Read more

I’m continually surprised by how often I’m asked this set of questions: Won’t cloud computing kill the hosting industry? Don’t Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft Azure pose a huge threat to hosters? The dreaded word “commoditization” often gets inserted, in an apparent attempt to convey impending doom. And most people go on to ask … Read more

One of the interesting side effects of the rapid adoption of Cloud Computing by the enterprise is the impact this adoption will have on the design and delivery of IT service processes. In his article Assessing cloud providers, Frank Ohlhorst reminds us that “moving to the cloud is primarily a business decision” dependent on the … Read more