If Google and Microsoft Chase Amazon, IT Will be Big Winner

Posted by on Jun 26, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

As I was reading Liz Ganne’s preview of Google I/O on All Things Digital this morning, one thing popped out at a me: a small blurb about Google getting into the cloud infrastructure business. Could Google be going after Amazon’s EC2 business? And according to GigaOm, it’s not just Google. Microsoft could also soon be in play as well with an Infrastructure as a Service offering. If these rumors are true (and it’s never official until it’s announced), hold on tight, boys and girls, because prices could be about to dive. Can you imagine these three companies going...

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Zynga shows how to build a hybrid cloud

Posted by on Apr 25, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

When it comes to building a hybrid cloud, just ask game maker Zynga how it’s done. That’s because Zynga, like many start-ups, started out as an Amazon EC2 customer, but as it grew it recognized it would need to build out its own data center too. Yet instead of giving up EC2, Zynga opted for a hybrid approach and has solved many of the issues that may be concerning you about going in a similar direction — but is Zynga’s experience applicable to all companies? Networkworld recently interviewed Zynga CTO Allan Leinwand to find out what it took to pull off a hybrid cloud...

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ASG Cloud Factory Helps IT Monitor the Cloud

Posted by on Dec 14, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

As we’ve discussed many times before, the cloud presents challenges to IT Ops pros from a monitoring standpoint and because it represents an entirely new way of delivering services — whether that’s in a public, private or hybrid cloud. ASG Software announced a new version of Cloud Factory this week that’s meant to address those changes and challenges, and provide IT Ops with a single place for managing your increasingly complex computing environment. One of the chief benefits of this approach is that you can use a dashboard to monitor your computing world from a...

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Monitoring in a Cloud World

Posted by on Nov 23, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

James Urquhart has been writing about the cloud for some time and in a recent post to launch his new gig at GigOm he began a process of trying to pull together some of his ideas from the last several years on the impact of the cloud on IT. Urquart outlines a typical IT Ops workflow as follows: We buy a server We assign that server an IP address and wire it to a switch port We choose an operating system (which, I argue, is actually part of the server from an operations perspective), then install applications Finally, we monitor the health of the system based on–wait for it–server...

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