If Google and Microsoft Chase Amazon, IT Will be Big Winner
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...
read moreMicrosoft Tries to Court IT with Surface
When Microsoft announced its two new tablets, dubbed the Microsoft Surface, last night, it seemed these devices were aimed directly at IT, but in a BYOD world where users often choose their own devices, is this wise strategy? If you want to see a range of analyst’s reactions to the announcement, The Guardian has a nice round-up, but the bottom line, as Francisco Jerome from IDC pointed out in The Guardian post, is that if Apple is the consumer tablet, he reasoned, Microsoft wants to be the corporate one. But there is a giant flaw in this approach. Apple is already inside the...
read moreMoving Beyond the Desktop Era to Whatever’s Next
When desktop computing began to emerge in the late 1970s, it attempted to solve a fundamental problem: how to automate the physical office of the time. Paul Maritz, CEO at VMWare, speaking at EMC World this week, said he entered the industry as a programmer at about that time, but after all these years, that desktop metaphor is finally reaching its maturity stage. Today, we need to find new ways to process and understand data that move beyond the office metaphor. Martiz pointed out that the earliest attempts at creating business software were an attempt to automate the paper-based world. We...
read moreASG Cloud Factory Helps IT Monitor the Cloud
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...
read moreIT Ops Pros Need More Mobile Monitoring Solutions
How often are you actually at your desk these days in front of your PC? The fact is you need access to monitoring data wherever you are, just as your users need to access to their content wherever they are. That’s why the dearth of mobile monitoring tools is troubling. While I was at CeBIT last year, the enormous German technology conference, I attended a briefing by Microsoft on a new cloud monitoring product called InTune. Since it works in the cloud, it would make sense that Microsoft closed the cloud-mobile connection and created a mobile app for monitoring pros on the...
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