I’ve written a guest post at Royal Pingdom discussing why Gmail’s recent failure should not be labeled as a wider, fundamental problem with cloud computing.
If you’re a hospital, a government facility (or even a datacenter) – do you rely only on the power grid? Of course not, you get yourself some backup generators – just [...]

Cloud infrastructures are complicated beasts, be it the machinery behind public clouds or the equipment big companies can buy to power their own private cloud. The large vendors are throwing their hats in the ring – but is all the technology ready? The odds are that no, the gaps are still wide open and the [...]

The cloud was abuzz this week with Amazon’s announcement of their Virtual Private Cloud offering. Will this enterprise-oriented offering finally persuade the skeptics? I think not.
To a very high degree, much of this new service offers functionality that was already doable. Extending your network into the cloud with a VPN and securing your instances from [...]

I’ve been talking recently to quite a few companies who decided to take the plunge and move their services into the cloud. Some were just starting while others had plenty of mileage under their belts. A major question posed to these companies was, why did you switch to the cloud?
Here’s what I found.
1. Economy
The most [...]