Public cloud solutions, as rolled out by Amazon AWS, Google AppEngine and Microsoft Azure have proven that capacity-on-demand is good ROI. There is real dollar value in migrating certain types of applications to cloud clusters. Though not every application is ready for migration to these public clouds due to legal and privacy reasons. To address [...]

Saleforce (CRM) reported very impressive quarterly revenue numbers. Proving that even in this economy there is scope to wring out cost efficiency. Salesforce is winning at the expense of Oracle and SAP suits. CEO, Mark Benioff, in his characteristic style is hitting on pet themes and slamming familiar vendors (Full transcript at SeekingAlpha): These new [...]

I am struggling to understand the definition of cloud computing – in the context of IT budget allocation. How is industry going to classify something as falling under cloud computing budget? In many companies I work with there is no Chief Cloud Officer operating with allocated budget. With data center, we know there is an [...]