“SaaS” collection
May 21, 2013
14 Things to Consider When Choosing a Cloud Provider – Part 2
In Part 1 of my 2-part series “14 Things to Consider When Choosing a Cloud Provider” I walked you through several important evaluation criteria that you should consider when choosing a cloud provider. The topics covered in Part 1 are: Performance, Breadth of Service Offering, Ease of Use, Price, Support, SLA and Security. Do note that these items are not…
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May 14, 2013
14 Things to Consider When Choosing a Cloud Provider – Part 1
You should all know by now that the cloud is here to stay. It may be in one form or another and in various flavors (infrastructure, platform or application) and it may not be called "cloud" in a few years, but the concept of on-demand, pay-as-you-go, Internet-delivery, scalable, as-a-service functionality will persist. It's efficient, it's cost effective and it is…
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March 22, 2013
15 Top Cloud Computing Use Cases
Cloud computing is established. And it has been proven by small and large businesses alike. Over the past 5 or so years, I have seen all types of companies adopting cloud computing as both primary and secondary sets of on-demand compute. Some cloud computing use cases are pretty traditional (e.g., a simple web presence) while others become extremely complex and…
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October 24, 2012
Agile Development & Big Data Management – Perfect for the Cloud
I’m a firm believer that cloud computing helps companies innovate. It provides resources, services and infrastructure at a fraction of the cost and in less time than it would with a traditional infrastructure rollout. By dramatically reducing internal times to deployment and capital expenditures, businesses are given the ability to iterate more quickly, be more competitive in releasing products and…
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October 9, 2012
10 Tips to Help You Understand Your Business Needs Before Focusing on Cloud
I think that perhaps all of this cloud hype is doing businesses a disservice. It’s everywhere. Even people on the street are talking about how their stuff is “in the cloud.” If you aren’t using cloud, you are behind the times and your technology is old and out of date. Cloud will make your teeth whiter, help your kids get…
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March 14, 2012
Walking Through IBM’s New iPad Cloud Application
It's no surprise that I'm writing about clouds and iPads and applications. If you do a search on my site, you will see that I write about all 3 of these topics, just never at the same time. When I found out that IBM had produced a Cloud application, my interests were sparked for many reasons: 1) I helped produce…
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March 7, 2012
Consumer Clouds – A Comfortable and Easy On-ramp to More Complex Business Clouds
I have multiple personalities. No, I'm not schizophrenic but I do have alter egos. During the day, I live and breathe cloud computing with my job as Technology Evangelist at GoGrid, a cloud infrastructure provider. And then the rest of my hours when I'm awake, I'm a dad, husband and technologist, trying to figure out how it all fits together…
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January 17, 2012
5 Ways To Make the Cloud Work for You
So you have heard about cloud computing but are not really sure what you can do with it. Or maybe, your only exposure to the cloud is what you have seen in ads or heard in the media. Let me tell you, what you see on TV is only a fraction of the cloud’s true power. I'm obviously a bit…
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January 4, 2012
5 Cloud Myths Debunked – Understanding the Primary Layers of Cloud Computing
A few weeks ago, I laid out my predictions for 2012, casting seeds into the wind to see where clouds and businesses may crop up. But there are still skeptics out there, people who believe that cloud computing is just a passing phase or that it really isn't that much different than traditional infrastructure. Having lived and breathed cloud for…
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December 13, 2011
Six 2012 Cloud Computing Predictions – Seeds in the Wind
Making predictions for Cloud Computing is like casting seeds into the wind to see what grows and what gets eaten by the birds. Sometimes something magical will sprout, and other times it simply gets consumed by something else. So, as I put my pyramid hat on, wrap myself in tinfoil and gaze into my crystal ball, I realize that doing…
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