Have you ever googled something and thought “If only I could just ask the computer this question instead of typing in keywords, sifting through pages and pages of crap and finally find THE ANSWER” buried in one of the web pages?” There has got to be a better way. Every science fict...

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...

Software, IT, strategy Gregory T. Huang wrote: On Tuesday night, I attended an intriguing event in the Washington Technology Industry Association’s cloud computing series, on “Scaling Into the Cloud with Amazon Web Services.” It was held at Amazon’s Beacon Hill headquarters i...

Earlier this year I was approached about writing a book on cloud computing topics by an editor for one of the big computer book publishers. Given that between my day job and having an infant I barely have time to keep this blog updated, I had to turn down the offer. However I did spend some time tak...

Filed under: Internet Tools, Apple, MobileMe After a less than stellar debut last year, Apple is doing a better job of communication with MobileMe customers who need to decide if they want to stay on as paid users or try other options. In an email to subscribers, Apple says it has been working hard ...

Yesterday I was mentioning that a French Twitterer @ronlinfirmier made a joke about Gmail being unavailable because "When Chuck Norris uses Gmail, the whole world waits until he's done"... Well this morning his quote was mentioned (the translated version of course) in the London Metro... William... ...

Todo parece indicar que este 2009 está siendo especialmente problemático para Google a nivel de gestión. Si finalizando enero cometía un error a la hora de actualizar la base de datos de sitios web dañinos que dejaba en fuera de juego su buscador (sin excesivas repercusiones gracias sobretodo a...

Over the last two days, I've seen a plethora (yes, Jefe, a plethora) of trade rag and blog articles espousing that The Cloud is more secure than an enterprise's datacenter and that Cloud security concerns are overblown.  I'd pick these things apart, but honestly, I've got work to do. <sigh> H...

This InformationWeek article took artistic license to lofty new levels in a single sentence as it described the demise of Cloud Computing PaaS vendor Coghead and the subsequent IP/Engineering purchase by SAP: Bad news for cloud computing: Coghead -- a venture-backed, online application development ...

I've waffled on how, or even if, I would write my critique of the Berkeley RAD Lab's paper titled "Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing."  I think I've had a hard time deciding where the authors have their heads, hence the title.  Those of you who know me are probably chuckling at ...