VM Provisioning Is Still in Its Infancy
Creation of VMs from a golden image can be automated, but the requirements are not easy to discover.
What Slows Down Enterprise Networks? 7 Deadly Sins of Network Congestion
Ethernet remains the dominant network protocol because of its low-cost scalability.
How Gnodal Solves the High Performance Switching Problem Inherent in the Cloud
Much work has been invested in software-defined networks that allow enterprises to define the paths of network traffic using software.
Why Heroku CEO Byron Sebastian Still Thinks the Traditional Enterprise Software Model Is Dead
After last week's column Is Salesforce.com Wrong to Love Ruby? was published on Forbes.com, I reached out to Byron Sebastian to get his reaction.
The Case for Building an Open Cloud
Driven by fundamental changes in the economics, scalability, flexibility, and speed of implementation for computing, the cloud has started a transformation that will take place over a decade or more, not months or years.
Direct from Salesforce.com: Why We Bought Heroku
I had the pleasure of interviewing Ariel Kelman, Salesforce.com’s VP of Product Marketing, and Byron Sebastian, CEO of Heroku.
Applying Business Intelligence to the Data Center
Building on the idea I wrote about last week (Business Intelligence and the Data Center), I wanted to do some brainstorming about the potential impact of applying BI to the data center.
Business Intelligence and the Data Center
A commenter on my Forbes.com JargonSpy column this week (How to Fix Apps Marketplaces) made a creative suggestion about monitoring the use of applications that points in many interesting directions that have been on my mind. Brent Frei said in a comment to the post:
Enterprise Cloud Architecture
As part of his research into the cloud, Winston Damarillo has pointed out that it is harmful to your cloud architecture and an obstacle to success in the cloud if you make a distinction between the "private" and "public" cloud infrastructures.
Everybody knows about IRS audits. Much less well understood are Oracle audits where the software behemoth comes into a company and – much as the IRS wields the proverbial fine-toothed comb to hunt for irregularities – Oracle uses its version of a fine-toothed comb to sift through a company’s software library and its licenses. Every piece of software is inspected, and so are the appropriate Oracle licenses and contracts.
I’m told by people who would know that Jeff Bezos thinks of Amazon as a software company, not a retailer or an e-commerce company.
There comes a time in the life of every important technology where the CEO gets interested and wants to know what the fuss is all about. That time has come for Spark.
How is your organization going to harness the power of mobile devices? In many ways, the answer to this question is a proxy for your approach to technology in general.