The Seamless Enterprise

There’s a lot of hype about cloud computing and mobility these days. In fact, Marc Ferranti comments in Network World that the venture capital market is opening up to more investments in social networking and cloud computing. It seems like a lot of people (and the smart money folks) do indeed “get it.” That said, what some still fail to see is how mobility is a key enabler and driver of all of this activity.  (more…)

So last week, in my post called “The Pendulum Swings Toward the Cloud,” I talked about how even caches of cloud-based elements could exist in the LAN of the future to cut down on the round-trip time into and out of the cloud. Really, this issue can’t be over-emphasized. I have used the leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications over a network, and I don’t think many executives appreciate the extent to which latency makes or breaks a SaaS application.  (more…)

All computing used to be cloud computing. I remember playing Oregon Trail on a teletype dialed into the Minnesota Education Computing Consortium’s mainframe (that was cloud computing). It was only after the client-server revolution that the pendulum swung the other direction away from the cloud and the game was thereafter distributed on floppy and CD to elementary schools outside of Minnesota.  (more…)

The cool thing about living in the blogosphere and the Twittersphere is how you stumble across new people with new ideas. I recently went to Pam Broviak’s blog to read an entry entitled “Cloud Computing and Virtualization Aren’t What you Think” and her entry made me realize that the trend toward virtualization is gaining momentum for the same reason that Web 2.0 tagging is. (more…)

Ran across an interesting Gartner survey of CIOs the other day, regarding their technology priorities for the coming year. Coming in at the top three spots were virtualization, cloud computing, and Web 2.0. (more…)