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Is cloud computing a dirty word?

I’m sitting at the airport in Montreal, waiting to head to Las Vegas for the Enterprise Cloud Summit. It’s been three years since we ran the first ECS at Interop, and much has changed. Back then, we spent a lot of time talking about what clouds were—helped by heavyweights from big public clouds like Amazon, [...]

A legal view on Big Data

The practice of law in the age of 'Big Data': This piece by Proskauer's Nolan Goldberg looks at how big data tools shift the focus of law from managing the burden of large amounts of information to leveraging its value.

The move to turnkey computing

In this presentation from Cloud Connect 2011, we look at the inevitability of everything-as-a-service.

Cloud performance from the end user perspective

This report looks at roughly 300 million individual tests of nine cloud platforms, conducted over a seven-day period.

Cloud Computing Survey 2011

This study looks at the motivations for, and concerns about, cloud adoption. Conducted across roughly 150 respondents from a variety of company sizes and industries, it shows some of the reasons organizations are embracing on-demand computing—and some of the reasons they're putting on the brakes.

Cloud provider deep dives at ECS 2011

At ECS 2011 in Vegas, we'll be asking 12 cloud providers to describe their offerings in 10 minutes. Here's how it's going to run.

Cloud evening at RPM

CloudOps is hosting a cloud evening with representatives from Amazon, Google, IBM, Salesforce, and Savvis.

Cloud Connect live: Neal Sample of eBay – cloud bursting for fun and profit

Cloud bursting for fun and profit…own the base, rent the spike. eBay 2B page views/day 6000 application servers 9PB of data. Cloud bursting: control costs and increase efficiency. 2000 servers provisioned at a fixed cost but only 300-1600 used at any given point of the day. A lot of “whitespace” or excess capacity. How can [...]

Cloud Connect live: Willem van Biljon of Nimbula

Cloud architecture is made up of many complex pieces. Compute, storage and network hardware, with a Cloud OS (IaaS control plane), and finally PaaS and SaaS layered on top. Scale, automation, resource management, permission and policy management are the key challenges. The hypervisor is NOT the Cloud OS, rather an essential component. Large enterprises have [...]

Cloud Connect live: Andy Schroepfer of Rackspace

The cloud is coming and all that matters is cost. Rackspace cloud is for smaller clients, medium clients use hybrid strategies, and they are hoping large companies will use OpenStack. Market will divide into 2 sectors: the self-service cloud, and the managed cloud. Just like in hosting versus managed hosting. Service is what matters. Pick [...]