Concerned you missed a big story? We’ve got you covered. Every Friday we’ll be posting the top five trending articles about all things cloud. So sit back, relax and enjoy the top headlines of the week. 1. Can CIOs adapt security practices to the growth of cloud computing, social media, and mobile devices? Find out how [...]
I came across this comic the other day by Manu Cornet. Besides my initial reaction of “I hate how I can’t share my instant amazon videos within iTunes”, I then thought – could this be bad for the cloud? In essence, if taken the wrong way, of course. The first thought is any ecommerce, when in the [...]
Dave Roberts, SVP of Strategy and Evangelism at ServiceMesh, wrote an article for GigaOM on Sunday entitled “Cloud Strategy: Choose Wisely.” In the article Roberts discusses how Amazon took the path less traveled when joining the book market. “In 1994, Borders Group was already one of the largest book retailers in the world. That same year, Jeff [...]
In a recent interview with the WHIR, the VP of SoftLayer addressed a topic that has continued to pop up in todays cloud industry: Smaller Providers vs Industry leaders. The main turn around of the article was how SoftLayer has taken a few of Rackspace’s and Amazon’s clients, putting them in competition. “We’re focusing on [...]
Are cloud providers joining forces to defeat the dark-lord? In ”One Cloud isn’t enough: Competing Against Amazon in a Commoditizing Cloud Market” Ditlev Bredahl, CEO and founder of onapp.com, shared with us his idea to create “one pane of glass, one set of APIs.” Bredahl believes that all of the smaller cloud provider companies should create a federation of sorts in [...]
On Sunday, Netflix’s cloud architect Adrian Cockcroft discussed the importance of Solid State Drives’ (SSD).
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