The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – Dark Clouds By David Fletcher
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Infographic: Humans vs. Computers (Cloud Evolution)
An interesting and somewhat playful look at ‘Man vs Machine’ found over at the Dell Community. There is however a very serious undertone to this for those leaning a bit on the paranoid side. With the acceptance and explosive growth of cloud computing and the utilization of online collaboration services, its simply just a matter [...]
The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – Storage Overload
The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – Storage Overload By David Fletcher
Whitepaper: Fair to Partly Cloudy
Fair to Partly Cloudy While the cloud is often referred to in singular fashion, the reality is that enterprises looking to embrace cloud computing can choose from some very different approaches, each providing specific benefits—and challenges. This paper will describe IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, revealing the unique characteristics of these cloud service delivery models. In addition, it [...]
Infographic: Generation Cloud
Generation Cloud The Study, ‘Generation Cloud’, commissioned by Rackspace in association with the centre of Creative and Social Technology (CAST) at Goldsmiths, University of London, analysed the ‘connected’ lives of everyday people to reveal what we are hosting and sharing in the cloud. Source: Rackspace Hosting
Upcoming Cloud Computing Events 2011-12
Cloud Channel Summit http://cloudchannelsummit.com/ - November 7th, 2011 The Cloud Channel Summit will feature a number of keynote presentations exploring the implications of the Cloud on the channel. The Cloud Channel Summit will provide a valuable meeting place for channel and partner development executives to share industry best practices and establish new relationships. Cloud Computing Expo [...]
The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – Brain Clutter
The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – Brain Clutter By David Fletcher
How Cloud Computing Helped Netflix Emerge as a Streaming Media Powerhouse
How Cloud Computing Helped Netflix Emerge as a Streaming Media Powerhouse Netflix may be getting a lot of bad press in recent times due to its management’s ill-advised decision to raise subscription rates by almost 50% resulting in widespread customer dissatisfaction and a groveling apology by CEO Reed Hastings, but it was not long ago [...]
The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – Tough Times
The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – Tough Times By David Fletcher See the Infographic on Crowd Funding
IBM SmartCloud Services and Capabilities, Launched
IBM SmartCloud Services and Capabilities, Launched IBM has introduced advanced cloud services and software to give unprecedented choice, security and portability to businesses. Designed from the ground up for enterprise clients the new offerings are launched at a time when businesses are shifting critical activities to the cloud and use it as a platform for [...]
Whitepaper: The Key to Effective Private Clouds
WAN Optimization: The Key to Effective Private Clouds Organizations of all shapes and sizes are looking to private cloud implementations to increase IT efficiency and help end users collaborate more easily. They’re after benefits that include lower costs,easier management of IT resources, improved disaster recovery and employee productivity gains. But organizations are also finding out [...]
The Darker Side Of The Cloud
Based on recent reports regarding Facebook user tracking, we have decided to appropriately title this weeks David Fletcher comic: ‘The Darker Side Of The Cloud”… —————————————————————————————————————————– Lawmakers seek FTC probe of Facebook post-log out tracking Two U.S. congressmen today asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook’s practice of tracking users even after they have [...]
Virtualization: The Virtual Way to Real-World Benefits
Virtualization: The Virtual Way to Real-World Benefits “One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo (1802-1885), legendary French poet and author. “Virtual” has usually been a poor substitute for “real”, but virtualization in computing is set to turn this notion around. Applicable to hardware, software, memory, databases and networks, virtualization is [...]
