Top 55 Cloud Computing Enablers Gaining Mind Share It’s that time again. Today we take a look at 1Q 2011 to see which Cloud players are gaining mindshare. You can guarantee that the Cloud computing segment will be even more exciting to watch in 2011 than it was in 2010 as large enterprise information technology companies continue their rapid restructuring to an on-demand cloud computing model by gobbling up tasty Cloud morsels seeking to save time and money in the process by adding proven, high quality Cloud solutions to their portfolios. The easy pickings are disappearing quickly as the giants
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Cloud Computing Contracts “The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.” – Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988), American science fiction writer. A contract is defined as “a legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.” Contracts are the cornerstones of business. Unfortunately, for cloud computing, contracts are still a grey area that has the potential for causing serious problems. In some of my previous articles, I had mentioned how lack of clarity of contracts is holding back widespread adoption of cloud computing. A lot of the
Cloudmore Implements Unique Cloud Services Marketing Model Headed by Michael Wicander, who co-founded Cloudmore in 2004, the Swedish company managed to establish itself as one of the leading providers of cloud services in Europe in less than a decade. Headquartered in Stockholm, the company has particularly strong positions in the Nordic markets as well as in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It benefited from the booming Software as a Service (SaaS) market, starting its operations on time to be able to ride the first wave of cloud-based services in a relatively underdeveloped market niche (at that time). At present, it
Practically Speaking About Cloud Computing: SPAM, the root cause: We learn that some companies have left cloud servers because of this email sending problem. Quite natural, because this is one of the important requirement from web sites or web applications! When this is not done, the whole purpose of the site gets defeated. So the concern is genuine. So, for us Cloud Technical Professionals, there is need to delve in to this problem. The root cause is SPAM. In the year 2010 it is reported that 107 trillion emails were sent at the rate 300 billion emails per day. Only
Practically Speaking About Cloud Computing: Introduction: Recently we had a practical experience of migrating one public website to cloud hosting. The site was with a leading hosting service provider and migrated to a leading cloud service provider. One of the issues that we faced and sorted out is sending email from cloud. Of course for those who are involved in cloud migration of websites, this should be a known issue by now. When we host sites in the physical server, we configure mail servers for sending emails. There is default SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server. As they are configured
