Software developers and the cloud. Software developers are perhaps the group who most face a paradigm shift in their thinking with the advent of cloud computing. However this paradigm shift has very little to do with the way they write code and an awful lot to do with their path to market for their software [...]
Is VMware cloud computing? The answer to that is both yes and no. Yes, in that it offers operating systems as a utility type service. No, in that it does not offer the end user a utility that is of direct and immediate use. I see the ‘operating system as a service’ model, which is [...]
What is the future of Cloud computing? Like many IT questions, this question has several answers. In straight forward business terms I see the growth and adoption of cloud following a traditional bell curve between the years 2010 and 2020. We are in year two now, and I would guess that between five and ten [...]
What will the desktop of the future look like? To a large extent I covered this topic in my last blog, but I do think it is work looking at in more detail, because nowhere does the implications of cloud computing become more apparent to the enterprise in general than on the desktop. USBs will [...]
What will the enterprise network of the future look like? Nowhere should the advent of cloud computing have a greater impact than on the enterprise network and in particular of course, the server room. In the server room, as the concept of cloud gradually takes hold, general purpose servers that are now being migrated to [...]
Is my data safe in the cloud? This is probably the most frequently asked question when we introduce the concept of ‘cloud computing’ to new businesses. A lot of the time this question is asked by someone who has lovingly built a big room full of servers, all with neat cabling, probably colour coded, lots [...]
Why cloud computing? As Willie Sutton, the famous Irish American bank robber was reported to have answered when asked “why he robbed banks?” “Because that’s where the money is!” Why cloud computing? Because it yields results. Also, because we can. These are the two most important reasons for the strong business move to cloud at [...]
Baker Security & Networks, a well established network and network security company with a large corporate base, decided three years ago to commit itself fully to cloud computing and further, to establish themselves as their customer’s main facilitator in moving their customer’s IT requirements to the cloud. To this end Baker have committed all their [...]
