Pretty much every developer you know was either in Broomfield, CO today for Gluecon 2013 or watching the #gluecon hashtag on Twitter. A magnet for coders, Day 1 of Gluecon 2013 certainly didn’t disappoint with the depth of technical discussion on a wide variety of topics. Reuse of both APIs and data was a running theme, [...]
According to a new study commissioned by accounting software vendor MYOB, a large portion of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have yet to take advantage of Cloud Computing, and might even be missing out on potential revenue gains. In the research study, more than 1,000 Australian SMBs were surveyed and only 16 percent of them [...]
In addition to Interop activities at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center last week, I was fortunate enough to be a part of the Cloud2020 thought leadership conference put on by Ben Kepes and Krishnan Subramanian over at my favorite data center facility, SuperNAP. The idea, as Ben and Krish explained in their opening remarks, was that the [...]
ProfitBricks is pleased to present this infographic, entitled “Cloud Computing and SaaS – Software Delivery in 2013.” Businesses of all sizes are now embracing SaaS, but IT managers continue to grapple with the challenge of scaling their cloud infrastructure to effectively meet changing demands. Access this Infographic to learn how SaaS differs from other software [...]
On Wednesday May 1, ProfitBricks held a webinar with Paul Burns from Neovise on the emergence of Cloud Computing 2.0. While everyone applauds the first generation of public cloud providers for breaking new ground compared to traditional on-premise solutions, Cloud 1.0 is rarely endgame and there are more improvements to be made. Paul has a [...]
The concluding day of the Rightscale Compute ’13 conference reinforced themes introduced the day before. The breakouts, in particular, echoed ideas about Choice, Outages, DevOps, pricing implications of On Demand infrastructure, and Cloud Maturity. In his talk on deployment checkups, Rightscale Senior Services Architect Brian Adler talked a lot about mature cloud consumers being smart [...]
