SLA in the Cloud Max Effgen, March 24, 2009 Service Level Agreements (SLA) are nothing new and have existed in information technology for many, many years. Now that the cloud has opened the information utility to everyone, SLAs are out in the open. But what does it really mean? It is not like you have a meter or a… Continue Reading
A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing Max Effgen, March 18, 2009 Above the Clouds Worth reading this engrossing whitepaper from the UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory on Cloud Computing. Continue Reading
Interesting read on competing clouds Max Effgen, March 13, 2009 Amazon, Microsoft improve their cloud computing game Interesting read on AWS and Azure offerings. No surprise that Microsoft is offering SQL Server. One thought though is how many less sophisticated organizations run much of their business on Excel or Access. Is this really going to attract those customers? The AWS… Continue Reading
Amazon AWS getting serious about the enterprise? Max Effgen, March 12, 2009 Amazon EC2 Introduces Reserved Instances This is a great pricing model for budgets that have the “use it or lose it” money. It might entice enterprises to try the service without the recurring payments and unexpected fees that many “As A Service” providers use. Full disclosure: The wife works at… Continue Reading
Enterprise computing channels Max Effgen, March 3, 2009 The reality of enterprise computing today is not just the migration to the cloud. Rather, it is a range of IT options: First is within the enterprise’s data center, second is in a partner hosting data center, and third is in the cloud. What option is best? Not to sound… Continue Reading
Integration requirements for CRM, Challenges and opportunities Max Effgen, March 2, 2009 Challenges and opportunities Integration outside the enterprise firewall needs to encompass the capabilities of the organization. Larger enterprises have investments in SOA and ESB providing them with new capabilities that can be utilized. Many organizations without these capabilities will find that standard point to point integration will more than meet… Continue Reading
Thoughts on the enterprise cloud Max Effgen, February 24, 2009 Computing is moving to the cloud. The names may change and the technology may be different; however, this idea is not new. See Martin Greenberger’s Essay dated 1964. Recall mainframe timeshares, application service providers, “on demand” or more recently the “as a Service” marketing tags. The current iteration, Cloud Computing… Continue Reading