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January 27, 2011  6:44 AM

Survey Finds IT Not Making Full Use of Private Cloud Resources



Posted by: Ron Miller
Cloud computing, enterprise IT, IT

Building a private cloud infrastructure inside your organization is not a trivial matter, so it's surprising to learn that a...

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January 12, 2011  10:38 AM

Don’t Let Cloud Utility Get Lost in Hype



Posted by: Ron Miller
Cloud computing, marketing, Microsoft

Cloud computing has gone mainstream, for better or worse. In case you had any doubts, I had an experience this past weekend that drove home just how pervasive the cloud has become, or perhaps it showed that it's truly entering the public consciousness as a marketing buzz word. First, a friend...

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January 4, 2011  8:00 AM

Lessons Learned from the Skype Outage



Posted by: Ron Miller
Cloud computing, Outages, Skype

When Skype went down for many people just before Christmas it was another lesson in how much we depend on cloud services, and how lost we feel when they go down for some reason, but it was also a lesson in how we react to these outages.
Much has been written...

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December 20, 2010  7:21 AM

Do We Really Need a Cloud OS?



Posted by: Ron Miller
ChromeOS, Cloud computing, Google, Google Chrome OS

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December 15, 2010  7:17 AM

WikiLeaks Shut Down Provides Lesson for Cloud Buyers



Posted by: Ron Miller
Amazon Web Services, Business, Cloud computing, Fujitsu Technology Solutions, IT, Law, Terms of service, The Wall Street Journal, WikiLeaks

I don't tend to go negative when it comes to the cloud, but the story earlier this month that Amazon Web Services cut off WikiLeaks for "violating the terms of service,"...

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December 13, 2010  7:04 AM

Data Is The Next Cloud Frontier



Posted by: Ron Miller
Cloud computing, database.com, Factual, Heroku, Java, mark suster, Oracle Corporation, Salesforce.com

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December 6, 2010  5:39 AM

Dreamforce reinforces cloud vision



Posted by: Ron Miller
Cloud computing, CRM, Dreamforce, Marc Benioff, Michael Dell, Salesforce.com

It seems appropriate that I'm launching this blog the same week as Salesforce.com is holding its annual

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