Caracterizadas por su lentitud y conservadurismo en la toma de decisiones, las empresas, procedentes de un doloroso pasado de implantaciones faraónicas costosísimas, verán disipados los cuentos de viejas sobre los terribles peligros de tener los datos más allá de los protectores muros de la sede corporativa gracias a historias de éxito como Salesforce y muchas más, y presenciarán como aquellas empresas más ágiles en la migración a la nube empiezan a disfrutar de costes mucho menores, funcionalidades enormemente extendidas en la dirección adecuada, y soporte para colaboración simple, eficiente y seguro. Sigue leyendo...

If you’re working with the web, and staying true to the path of platform independence and compatibility, you’re with me. If you’re not; if you’re trying to replace and/or subvert the web, you’re against me. Sigue leyendo...

By most accounts, the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Chrome development team has dramatically achieved its goal of building a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the Web faster, safer, and easier. Sigue leyendo...

Cloud computing and storage convert physical resources (like processors and storage) into scalable and shareable resources over the Internet (computing and storage "as a service"). Although not a new concept, virtualization makes this much more scalable and efficient through the sharing of physical systems through server virtualization. Cloud computing gives users access to massive computing and storage resources without their having to know where those resources are or how they're configured. As you might expect, Linux® plays a huge role. Discover cloud computing, and learn why there's a penguin behind that silver lining. Sigue leyendo...

Public utility cloud services differ from traditional data center environments—and private enterprise clouds—in three fundamental ways. These three key differences in turn enable the sustainable strategic competitive advantage of clouds through what I'll call the 10 Laws of Cloudonomics. Sigue leyendo...

We know that the PC shift was an enormous change in the way people interacted with computers, and a massive market opportunity for computer suppliers. Will SaaS be as disruptive to the software industry? Many believe so, as do I, but only time will tell. Sigue leyendo...

However, a growing number of SaaS executives have been telling me that their support costs have been escalating and customer concerns about the quality of support rising as the population of SaaS users has expanded and the number of cloud computing service outages has grown. Sigue leyendo...

It is another set of opinion pieces which suggest that cloud computing is only an over-hyped and fundamentally a dangerous approach to meeting an organization’s IT and business needs which concerns me. These articles and commentaries appear to be aimed at the least knowledgeable reader. They exploit the amorphous nature of the ‘cloud computing’ term. What’s harder to get your arms around and, in turn, your head? Clouds. Sigue leyendo...

When I spoke to Ribbit in early May, CEO Ted Griggs told me his company was out to obsolete telcos: “Phone companies aren’t open. That’s a problem,” he said. But yesterday, Ribbit sold out to BT, which the FT’s Chris Nuttall helpfully reminded us “began as a telegraphic service in 1868.” Sigue leyendo...

Project management SaaS provider Daptiv is releasing actual metrics collected from more than 200 customers who went live on its service in the past nine months. Those figures show the average time from starting a subscription to having live users running productively on the configured system was less than 30 days. Sigue leyendo...