Cloud and Tablets Favor the Content Publisher, LANs and PCs Favor the Content Creator
I recently added a Vizio tablet to my list of technological acquisitions. It’s a relatively good Android-based tablet that is very reasonably priced compared to equivalent functional models. However, I…
There Is No ROI in Cloud Computing
Return-on-Investment (ROI), perhaps the biggest crock-of-$%@& metric ever applied to the information technology industry. How does one measure return? If we use monetary return, then the question, “how much money…
Defining DevOps
Recently a member of the LinkedIn DevOps group started a discussion entitled, “Concise description of DevOps?” This member’s post focused on clarifying DevOps as a role mainly for the purposes…
Thar Be Danger in That PaaS
There’s a lot of momentum behind moving to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for delivery of applications on the cloud, but is there enough maturity in PaaS to deploy a mission-critical application? Here’s…
Cloud Enables Big Business to Play Like SMBs
I can store pedabytes of data in the cloud. I can run my E-mail, communications, CRM, HR and Accounting in the cloud. My employees can live and work anywhere in…
Cloud Multi-tenancy Includes Network Bandwidth
There’s been a lot of discussion about multi-tenancy since the arrival of cloud computing. Multi-tenancy is the act of hosting multiple non-related resource allocations on the same hardware. For example,…
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Dependency Creep Can Impact Your Cloud Migration Strategy
With Cloud Computing emerging on the scene as a solution to a number of computing use cases, it will drive modernization of your existing systems. Perhaps it’s just a new…
A Concise List of Business Use Cases for Cloud Computing
This blog entry can also be seen at: http://blogs.smartronix.com/?p=114 At the upcoming Interop Las Vegas Show (5/10/2011) I’m presenting “A Roadmap for Transitioning to Cloud Computing”. One of the key…
Download Focus.com Report on Advice on for IT Workers Threatened by the Cloud
My responses were selected to as a contribution to this report providing advice to IT workers that are threatened by the emergence of Cloud Computing. Free Download: Focus Experts’ Briefing:Top…
Who’s Not Doing Enterprise Architecture?
Today, Jason Bloomberg of ZapThink released a blog entry entitled, “Why Nobody is Doing Enterprise Architecture”. A key point in the article is the statement, “Enterprises aren’t architected at all.…