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 in [...]]]> http://blog.btclogic.com/will-microsoft-be-a-winner-in-enterprise-cloud-computing/feed/ 0 http://blog.btclogic.com/the-death-of-the-data-center/ http://blog.btclogic.com/the-death-of-the-data-center/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:29:05 +0000 Paul http://blog.btclogic.com/the-death-of-the-data-center/ 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 service [...]]]> http://blog.btclogic.com/the-death-of-the-data-center/feed/ 0 http://blog.btclogic.com/beyond-the-kindle/ http://blog.btclogic.com/beyond-the-kindle/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:30:14 +0000 Renee http://blog.btclogic.com/?p=76 http://blog.btclogic.com/beyond-the-kindle/feed/ 2