IBM got a leg up on Microsoft this week at the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany, when it performed a "groundbreaking technology demonstration," moving a live SAP application from one cloud-based server to another. This would hardly be considered groundbreaking in the context of an on-premise data cent...

Ron Markezich corporate VP of Microsoft Online Services taking a swipe at Google says that Microsoft maintains its services at four-nines availability, while backing up its three-nines SLA with financial penalties: “We don’t just give service credits, we give hard......

Australia's Majitek, which sells cloud computing software, has raised $7.5M. Cisco led the round, and was joined by return backer Pierce & Pierce. We are happy to see that Majitek is a reunion tour by the management of Sausage Software, which, in 1996, was the first Internet company to go public in ...

Gartner pissed in the proverbial punchbowl this week with their prognostication that cloud computing will not be mature until 2015. Jon Foley was surprised by the conservative nature of this prediction. Rightscale reacted (appropriately and expectedly) by saying “but it’s exciting now!&#...

Small and medium sized business customers are flocking to Google Apps. One of Google’s spokespeople said that they were adding 2,000 customers per day at the end of 2007 and 3,000 customers per day at the end of 2008. I decided to do a little math to see what this all meant. Assuming that Year...

Like everybody else, I’ve been migrating my information to the Cloud. I started with GoogleDocs, but now it’s almost ALL all there: my social graph, my online banking, my online tax filing, Facebook, Twitter, even my business bookkeeping and some of my medical data. My hard drive is pris...

Here are my notes from the Legacy apps session on Day 2 at the Cloud Connect Event put on by TechWeb. Thanks to David Berlind and Angela Bole and their team for putting on the event. Moderating: David Berlind, General Manager & Co-Creator, Cloud Connect Moderated: Rob Helm, Director of Research,...

I’ve been enjoying a spirited exchange with some of the Enteprise Irregulars around SaaS and Big Software for the Enterprise.  I won’t bore you with too many of the details, but we wound up in one of the classic cul de sacs these arguments often do.  Big Software was expressing their a...

After sifting through the blizzard of Monday morning blog posts in Google Reader without finding much of interest (glad to hear Jobs looks to be in reasonable health), I turned to Twitter and immediately vectored onto some more interesting stuff.  The best yet was Andrew McAfee’s post on the ...

Microsoft, having quietly thrown in the towel on the fight to convince die-hard XP proponents (or......