Tweet I was just reviewing the cloud tools offered by Zeus. I was researching Global server Load Balancing (Cloud Balancing) software yesterday and they were on my list. Unfortunately I used an image from their software and neglected to mention them in my post. I just spent the last couple hours reviewing their tools and [...]
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Tweet Wyse PocketCloud gives you access to a cloud, your PC, Remote Desktop Services, a Terminal Server, VMware View or virtual machine securely from your desktop and your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or Android devices. Connection Protocols Microsoft RDP protocol VMware View 4.0 connection broker Wyse PocketCloud Security Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) RSA Two-Factor Authentication [...]
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Tweet Red Hat has been part of the cloud with services like Amazon EC2 since the beginning, because they are a leading open source platform. Not be outdone by other technology providers, Red Hat is offering their own line of cloud computing tools and services. When you choose Red Hat for your cloud, you get: [...]
Tweet Many businesses are growing into the clouds, but there are still are many on the fence. Before a business moves their entire small business setup to the Amazon cloud, they might consider using Amazon S3 just for backup and recovery. A quick way to put the cloud to work for your small business, is [...]
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Tweet I was reminded today that nothing is permanent in the cloud. I accidentally terminated my primary database instance running on Amazon EC2. 319 databases, 100 GB of data running on SQL Server 2008. I was removing 2 decommissioned server instances, I selected both of them and clicked terminate. About 60 seconds later I started [...]
Tweet I was looking for an open source image gallery solution for a friend the other night. Tonight after reading The Coming Tornado: Cloud in the Enterprise. I got into researching a couple of other areas of open source or cloud tools that I can add to my IT cloud stack. I came across Panda, [...]
Tweet I came across a cloud backup tool the other day called backupify. It runs in the cloud and backs up your cloud. Very cool. backupify is pretty easy to setup. It acts like most social aggregators like Friendfeed, however it then backs up your data rather than syndicating it or providing a single feed. [...]
Tweet I strongly believe in the cloud, and more specifically in Amazon‘s approach to cloud computing. I constantly battle people on my decision to use the cloud for my core IT infrastructure. It allows me to scale my infrastructure as needed and gave a completely new face to my IT strategy and operations. I can [...]
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Tweet I started doing some research on cloud computing a couple weeks ago. I have been watching the Google search results for my name to see how long it took for this research to float up in my profile. It showed up at #28 now. I have seen other pages too show up below that. [...]
Tweet Watching the recent explosion in growth around IPhone applications and seeing the potential for other mobile application development on Blackberry, Android and other platforms…I can’t help but think how this is the future of computing. I see many useful business and fun applications on the Iphone and Blackberry coming out every day. I just [...]
Tweet I have had several talks with small businesses about their comapnies infrastructure and what the next steps are. When I bring up cloud computing, the first question I get is in regards to security. How secure is our data, our apps? Valid questions and cloud service providers have a lot of proving to do [...]
Tweet Google continued maturing their cloud offerings for the enterprise world yesterday with a Google Apps LDAP integration tool. Google Apps Directory Sync now lets businesses and schools with an LDAP user directory system transition more quickly and smoothly to Google Apps. Instead of manually maintaining a separate user account directory in Google Apps, this [...]
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Tweet I have been spending time researching different aspects of cloud computing and opportunities out there to evangelize about it. I was researching Recovery money going to the National Science Foundation. As of today it isn’t flowing quite yet. Then I got curious of other project funding opportunities there are with the National Science Foundation. [...]
Tweet Lately I am very interested in the Government usage of social media and cloud computing (SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS) . I have been reading and doing a lot of research in this area lately. I came across great post on programmableweb today called An Online Dialogue to Shapre Recovery.gov. Lots of great information, and [...]
Tweet Was reading this post on, 90% of SaaS companies and Most I.T. Major Players will not exist in present form by recession’s end. I really can’t speak to how much the recession and current economic crisis will affect technology, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS providers. However I relaly can believe in the consolidation of SaaS [...]
Tweet I have talked before about data centers supporting the cloud and green data center construction strategies. I have heard comments on the amount of data center infrastructure we have is adequate for the next round of cloud growth. I tend to be an optimist, but I think the next round of cloud adoption is [...]
Tweet Reading various posts about application development platforms for IPhone, Blackberry, Vodafone, Android and many others. Being a big fan of Wikinomics, Crowdsourcing and all those visionary 2.0 concepts….I can’t help think….should every company have an open platform for their business? Is this R&D 2.0. Many companies can’t even afford an R&D Department, maybe they [...]
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Tweet I was just reading about Research in Montion and their innovation in Fast Company and about their applicaiton directory in Business Week. I was also reading about Vodafone in Business Week. Seems that open platforms and creating application directories are all the rage. All the mobile providers are seeing the success of namely IPhone [...]
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Tweet I am conducting my cloud computing research and specifically focusing on: United States Federal Government Education, Adoption, and Usage of Cloud Computing United States State Government Education, Adoption, and Usage of Cloud Computing United States University Education, Adoption, and Usage of Cloud Computing Definition and Understanding of Cloud Computing Players There is a lot [...]
Tweet I have been playing around with some research on cloud computing lately. I am using the Google Platform as a base to store and present all the data. I used Google as a Platform when I was doing my social media marketing business. It gave me a ready to go platform to collaborate on [...]
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