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I have had several talks with small businesses about their comapnies infrastructure and what the next steps are. When I bring up cloud computing, the first question I get is in regards to security. How secure is our data, our apps?
Valid questions and cloud service providers have a lot of proving to do here in alleviating the concerns of small and medium sized busin...
I was waiting for my Google Profile to float up in my listings. I watch the top 20 Google search results for my name fairly often. It is important to me what shows there.
Google continued maturing their cloud offerings for the enterprise world yesterday with a Google Apps LDAP integration tool.
Google Apps Directory Sync now lets businesses and schools with an LDAP user directory system transiti...
I am always looking for quality flash slidehows and image galleries to display products, people and nature pictures. There are some gr eat paid solutions out there.
I just stumbled across what I would consider the best assortment of FREE flash image galleries.
Take a look: http://www.paulvanroekel.nl/picasa/
I used up all my mojo on my last post, and really can't write much on this topic right now, but I have to at least share this posting I found tonight:
Recovery Recommendations From I School Faculty Sent to the US Government
It is the best recommendation I have read regarding how to change the Government and spend some recovery / stimulus money.
I will write more about it later, ...
I really love the Amazon SimpleDB tool. The concept is great. Many of the web applications I build use only very basic database functionality.
I have come across many companies that use SQL Server and pay the license but they only use 10% of the functionality. They use it for Simple Storage.
So I have really advocated for the movement to
Lately I am very interested in the Government usage of social media and cloud computing (SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS<...
I am always talking about how many software and service providers out there should really focus on doing one thing and doing it very well.
This is a personal goal of mine as well.
I cam across another web service this evening that I would put into that category. It is called ShareThis.
The provide web site sharing tools that are plug and play. They also provide advanced tools like API, Reporting and more.
Very well...
I have been spending time researching different aspects of cloud computing and opportunities out there to evangelize about it.
I was researching Recovery money going to the National Science Foundation. As of today it isn't flowing quite yet.
Then I got curious of other project funding opportunities there are with the National Sc...
Was reading this post on, 90% of SaaS companies and Most I.T. Major Players will not exist in present form by recession's end.
I really can't speak to how much the recession and current economic crisis will affect <...
Reading various posts about application development platforms for IPhone, Blackberry, Vodafone, Android and many others.
Being a big fan of Wikinomics, Crowdsourcing and all those visionary 2.0...
I was just reading about Research in Montion and their innovation in Fast Company and about their applicaiton directory in Business Week.
I was also reading about Vodafone in Business Week.
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IPhone applications are a success, no arguement here. With this success there are a lot of of mobile providers mimicking this. We saw the recent release of the Blackberry application directory and we see other mobile carriers talking of the same.
Having a platform dev...
I read probably 10-20 articles daily about the cost savings of cloud computing. So many of them. This is definitely an area of consideration when making the migration to the cloud for your business.
However I would like to see more analysts talk about the efficiency gains regarding performance and generally meeting the demands of your customers. There are a lot of savings and improvements in this area.
This is the biggest area of benefit I see for companies after making the mi...
I have talked before about data centers supporting the cloud and green data center construction strategies. I have heard comments on the amount of data center infrastructure we have is adequate for the next round of cloud growth.
I tend to be an optimist, but I thi...
I am encountering many companies that are putting together their cloud computing migration strategy for either their entire company or for specific programs. I see several companies posting comments and questions about this process which creates some transparency of their activities.
I feel strongly that any company seeking to migrate their small or medium sized business to the cloud should do so in a very transparent way as possible. They can ask questions of the profession cloud com...
I am conducting my cloud computing research and specifically focusing on:
United States Federal Government Education, Adoption, and Usage of Cloud Computing
United States State Government Education, Adoption, and Usage of Cloud Computing
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I have been working real hard for the last couple of months to design a solid base for my companies architecture.
I was seeing a new theme to my architecture planning, and as a typical geek I have to give this some name and / or achronym. So I came up with Ubiquitous Oriented Architecture (UOA).
I want one platform for delivering our data using web services to any platform possible. I want to deliver event management and marketing tools through whatever channel the user wants ...
So I have been test driving a new cloud platform or tool every couple days as I have time. I took a test drive and demo of SkyTap last week. I wrote down some notes on it, but will be pr...
So I was laying down by the river today in the sun and had a set of initial thoughts around defining and quantifying my tenancy within the cloud.
I really want to see my presence more defined so I have a better understanding and control. Here are some initial thoughts.
So my presence in the cloud usually is going to reside in a tenancy slot at on or more data centers, without getting too technical. Depending on the size and importance of my company or presence my tenancy will ...
A recent post called, How Cloud Computing is transforming global business really spoke to me. It was a very clear list of important factors on how Cloud Computing is transforming business. I would like to take the time and analyze each point in the post:
I have been playing around with some research on cloud computing lately. I am using the Google Platform as a base to store and present all the data.
I used Google as a Platform when I was doing my social media marketing business. It gave me a ready to go platform to collaborate on without building something from scratch.
I am enjoying trying to retrofit it to ...
I am last minute e-filing my taxes because my accountant just told me my extension was denied cause they say someone already filed using my SSN? Whole other issue.
So I am working using an online software and it is pretty slow, but that expected because its 4/15.
So I ask myself....are they scaling their infrastructure in the clouds?
