Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'cloud computing'
BusinessWeek asks what's Holding back Google Apps?. The answer is the same thing that always kills deals to move corporate data to the cloud: control....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on May 14, 2009 12:22 PM
The world of cloud computing is running with few generally accepted rules. It's a one-cloud-provider-one-privacy-policy business right now. One researcher thinks "swamp" is a better term than cloud. I've argued the cloud makes sense in some cases and not others,...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on April 27, 2009 8:29 AM
Cloud computing understandably got a lot of attention last week at the RSA conference. Somewhere between the overzealous supporters and the "we'll never use it here" faction we'll find some hint of a hybrid model that combines internal data center...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on April 25, 2009 5:45 PM
Moving data to the cloud takes a little courage and a lot of trust. How can you trust the cloud computing/storage provider to protect your data? Zoho must get this question a lot and they're probably sick of it because...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on February 8, 2009 12:43 PM
Zoho has announced CloudSQL for using SQL to query data in Zoho hosted applications. This a plus for developers who just need to take care with crafting queries....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on December 2, 2008 6:21 PM
Rolling out a new application is no time to forget about security. In this podcast we look into several topics to consider when deploying a new application, including the last steps in application testing, establishing access controls, configuring and patching...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 26, 2008 7:28 PM
Cloud computing holds promise for many of us, including phishers, identity thieves and others ready to separate you from your money....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on October 29, 2008 8:38 AM
Cloud computing is going to become the dominate paradigm for delivering IT services, the big questions surround who, when, and how. Some IT sages venture some insights....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on October 26, 2008 8:41 PM
Amazon's EC2 is no longer in beta and the cloud computing provider is ready to offer service level agreements (SLAs) and support Microsoft Windows servers as well as SQL Server....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on October 23, 2008 12:54 PM
Yesterday I posted on Richard Stallman's perplexing comments about the stupidity of cloud computing. Others are wondering about them too....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 30, 2008 10:40 PM
Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and well known privacy advocate, thinks cloud computing is a bad idea - and that is putting it mildly....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 29, 2008 2:40 PM
InformationWeek is arguing that enterprise users won't adopt Google smartphones based on Adroid because of a lack of native support for Microsoft Exchange and no desktop synching application....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 27, 2008 3:45 PM
Microsoft intends to announce its plans for cloud computing at the Professional Developers Conference next month....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 24, 2008 8:14 AM
How long will Google stick with online apps? The fact that GE chose Zoho over Google is just the tip of the iceberg heading toward Google Apps....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 22, 2008 5:47 PM
Is it day 7 already, or is it 6? I haven't blogged for days on the topic because, well, there isn't much to say about switching from desktop to online applications. While that itself is a point worth noting, there...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 25, 2008 6:34 PM
The second day of this experiment of using online tools to repalce the desktop showed a couple of weak links but still no major problems....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 20, 2008 8:34 AM
The first day of a cloud-centric work day was relatively uneventful but I did find a couple of unexpected snags. (This is a follow-up article to Trading the Desktop for the Cloud)...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 19, 2008 5:28 PM
Can you trade your desktop for the cloud? Probably not completely but I'd like to find out just how far we can get today, so starting this week, I'm going to conduct an experiment in which I do as much...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 18, 2008 8:42 AM
We've just posted a new article on security and cloud computing. Here's an excerpt:...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 8, 2008 3:18 PM
There are many advantages of cloud computing, like the promise of resources on demand and lower costs, but improved security isn't one of them....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on July 15, 2008 6:17 AM
EnterpriseDB will start beta testing an Oracle compatible version of PostgreSQL in March using Amazon's computing and storage services. How compatible this version is remains to be seen, but it doesn't need all the spatial, RDF, text management extras of...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on January 29, 2008 8:41 AM
NetworkWorld is running a story today about Nicholas Carr's new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google which seems to argue IT is a dead department walking. I'm looking forward to reading it but in the...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on January 8, 2008 7:36 AM
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