Will Microsoft be a winner in enterprise Cloud computing?

By Paul, on July 9th, 2010

There have been a couple of trends in the Cloud marketplace recently that are noteworthy.

First there is now a general acceptance that enterprises will choose hybrid Clouds as the best way to meet their needs. This was picked up by David Sherr in his recent blog entry (http://dsherr23.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/ive-looked-at-clouds-frm-both-sides-now/) and covered by David Linthicum in his blog on InfoWorld (http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/hybrid-clouds-new-twist-old-trick-514).

There has also been increasing debate about whether Microsoft will be one of the top 5 Cloud providers (or Cloud Champions as I refer to them) three to five years out. David Linthicum has covered this quite well [...]

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The Death of the Data Center

By Paul, on February 18th, 2010

I was reading through David Linthicum’s posting on the death of the data center, and have to mostly agree with him. Read the article here.

While companies are showing a significant move to virtualization within the data center and a clear shift to adding resources in the Cloud rather than an in-house data center, the short term effect will likely be to increase the number of data centers – Amazon being a good example of this.

However, I do believe that the ownership and location of the new data centers represents a dramatic shift. It will be [...]

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Beyond the Kindle

By Renee, on January 5th, 2010

Possible trends of e-book industry for [...]

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