The Wisdom of Clouds

IBM launches development and test cloud

James Urquhart — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:45:00 PST

IBM is launching a development and test cloud service as a part of its Smart Business portfolio, as well as adding private cloud services to Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing portfolio.

Does cloud computing need malpractice safeguards?

James Urquhart — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:00:00 PST

With the value of consumer's online information increasing every year, do the old "you can't blame us" mentality of software and Internet-based services have to go?

Mitosis in action: Cloud computing and 'The Cloud'

James Urquhart — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:23:35 PDT

Much of the confusion behind the question "what is cloud computing" has to do with the diverging concepts of "cloud computing" and "The Cloud"--an unfortunate but understandable evolution of terminology.

Cloud computing and the big rethink: Part 5

James Urquhart — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:16:03 PDT

There are tremendous technical and market pressures toward "downsizing" the traditional server operating system and "virtual machine." What does that portend for the future of computing and IT as a profession?

Cloud computing and the big rethink: Part 4

James Urquhart — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:50:45 PDT

The community that may be most attracted to the cloud-computing model in the long term are those who have the least direct interaction with the underlying technologies that enable it--application end users.

Cloud computing and the big rethink: Part 3

James Urquhart — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:27:24 PDT

After exploring the role that changing infrastructure is having on the importance of traditional operating systems and virtual servers, it's time to look at the most powerful force in the cloud computing galaxy: the developer.

Cloud computing and the big rethink: Part 2

James Urquhart — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:34:40 PDT

If operating systems were originally designed to be applicable across the widest variety of hardware, and VMs are designed as containers for them, is the homogeneity of cloud infrastructure the VM's bane?

Cloud computing and the big rethink: Part 1

James Urquhart — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:45:00 PDT

Do you think the future of cloud computing revolves around virtual servers? Try again. Software developers are rethinking delivery of distributed applications and services, impacting the way we address IT from the very core.

Five ways that Apps.gov is a trendsetter

James Urquhart — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:37:00 PDT

Apps.gov, a new cloud computing portal from the General Services Administration, will serve to demonstrate a variety of new IT practices enabled by cloud. Will the private enterprise follow?

Originally posted at News - Business Tech

Does cloud computing affect innovation?

James Urquhart — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:53:00 PDT

Not long ago, Jonathan Zittrain wrote about the possibility that cloud computing would stifle software innovation. Is "business execution" vendor SuccessFactors a counterexample to that claim?