Taking false cloud comfort from multi-tenancy
One-for-all or many-for-some? How a vendor implements multi-tenancy makes a big difference to the effectiveness, competitiveness and market appeal of a cloud application or resource.
Software as Services
In the best-informed blog on software-as-a-service and on-demand business applications, Phil Wainewright cuts through the vendor spin, analyzes the trends to watch and adds his thought-provoking insights.
Phil Wainewright
Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst and consultant.
Latest Posts
Next-gen integrators automate how you buy IT
With Dell targeting the volume SMB sector and cloud SIs serving larger enterprises, traditional IT providers could face extinction as cloud adoption spreads.
Beware this fake ShopBop order email
I was nearly scammed into downloading malware today by a cleverly executed phishing email that just arrived in my inbox
Digging for gold in DataSift's Twitter archive
DataSift is unlocking two years of Twitter archive for pay-as-you-go analysis using its big data tools, opening up a social media goldmine to enterprises and entrepreneurs
Joining the dots in the cloud
Businesses are going to have to connect up all those stovepiped cloud instances they've deployed. New options are emerging, but which ones are going work?
Huddle Sync takes collaboration off the enterprise leash
Huddle's new intelligent synchronization tool brings Dropbox-like sync capabilities to shared enterprise documents, with added security and productivity
Savvy users, the final frontier
If big data and analytics apps are to achieve widespread success, then business users will have to pick up some of the high-level skills needed to get the best out of them.
Citizen gateway gov.uk runs on Amazon
Can it be that the UK government actually gets the cloud? Its gov.uk trial runs on Amazon and is aiming for savings of 80 to 90 percent.
Planetary-scale computing
If you really want to know how to build a cloud, look at how Google architects its data center infrastructure to produce economies of scale at a global level
Why you can't afford to resist the cloud
Large and small enterprises are creating new business opportunities through their use of the cloud, at the expense of those who are slower to adapt.