A peek at the recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for IaaS will show just how incredibly hard it is for any vendor to differentiate itself from Amazon Web Services. In what is perhaps a first, Gartner had to change the…
Making sense from the ever-increasing quantities of raw data available to us is a recurring theme in the companies I speak with. Indeed one of my theses when looking at companies is to search for fabrics that span multiple…
One trait of cloud computing that has IT departments shaking in their boots is the face that since cloud services can often been purchased by end users on a credit card, it is often very difficult for central IT…
Spending as much time as I do talking about the benefits of cloud computing, it’s sometimes a little frustrating living somewhere that is generally the last place in the world to have access to technological innovations. Case in point…