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New report on cloud performance

A few months ago, the folks at Webmetrics asked us if we'd like to work with them on some industry research (more on this below.) Today, we're publishing that research. It's an extensive study of cloud performance, involving hundreds of tests from many locations across Amazon, Google, Salesforce, Rackspace, and Terremark. ...

Delivery Strategies opener from Enterprise 2.0

Yesterday, we opened up the Delivery Strategies track at Enterprise 2.0 with a session called, "apps don't deploy themselves." The basic idea was that IT managers have many more options to consider when deploying applications, from the platforms on which things run to the economics of building versus buying. Here's the ...

Lessons learned at Enterprise 2.0

We've been in Boston this week at the Enterprise 2.0 conference (which got a great writeup in the Wall Street Journal today.) It's been an interesting series of discussions about next-generation IT applications. Here are some of the lessons we've learned over the week. 2 dimensions of attendees The conference felt like ...

Slides from cloud 101 at Gov2Expo

On Tuesday, I had a chance to talk with government cloud users in DC about clouds. Rather than the usual "echo chamber" of clouds and IT, this was a more introductory session, and it gave me a chance to cover the broader trends in IT -- the shift from a ...

Introducing “Human 2.0″

We are continuing to transform Bitcurrent from a blog into a site that represents more what we do - produce events, content and research. Having launched our cloud blog, Rented Metal, we are now launching Human 2.0, a new site where we explore the impacts of new technologys on us ...

Introducing “Rented Metal”

Over the coming weeks we will be transforming Bitcurrent from a blog into a site that represents more what we do - produce events, content and research. The first step of this transition is that from now on, all Cloud Computing related blog entries will appear on our new cloud-centric blog. We ...

Why aren’t there any smiley hashtags?

Hashtags are the standard way of adding meaning and context to online content, providing explicit context and making it easier for computers to understand what's being said. And emoticons are a de facto standard for expressing sentiment that work across cultures and languages. Why haven't we combined the two? Hashtags ...

Launching Cloud Connect

In a few weeks, we'll hold the inaugural Cloud Connect in Santa Clara, California. It's actually the continuation of a series of events David Berlind launched around cloud computing, plus a spinoff of last year's Enterprise Cloud Summit, plus a bunch of new content. We're pretty excited, because this is the ...

The perils of inadvertent sharing

There's hidden plumbing behind our online lives. As we link our online accounts to one another, it's easy to lose track of what's connected to what. Social sites make it easy to inadvertently share content with an audience you didn't know you had. Social sites that want to quickly generate ...

Why you should let your computer spy on you

Have you ever found yourself using your computer and thinking "No! That's not what I meant. Isn't it obvious what I'm trying to do?" Today you can use your computer for an ever-increasing number of activities - planning a holiday, reading the news, creating music, chatting, shopping, budgeting or just ...