Archive for April, 2009

Top 50: Cloud, SaaS and Virtualization - No Surprise There

For those of you who are interested in the ‘insider’ story, here are the “top 50″ startups to watch, as reported by Information Week:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216600068#

The Parable of the Wicked EMR…

I quite enjoyed this blog entry, on what can happen when medical records include - and propagate - medical errors:
http://e-patients.net/archives/2009/04/the-parable-of-the-wicked-emr-guest-post-by-david-kibbe.html
PS: Is it just me, or is EMR colliding with Social Media, and starting to pick up speed fast?

As VMware Momentum Continues, STORServer Reinvents Appliance Delivery Methods by Offering Encapsulated Virtual Machines

Among the vendor teams that I met at SNW this year, the team from STORServer stood out to me as having the best use of appliance technology built using VMware systems. STORServer offers an appliance built on IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) to simplify data backup. STORServer was there to talk about [...]

Cloud here to stay?

Cloud computing has looked very ASP-ish to me. Which, to those of us who lived through the short-lived ASP craze that came and went in the late 90’s, is not auspicious for Cloud.
Here’s some evidence, tho admittedly shaky, that Cloud may have more staying power…
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cc234f72-2e4f-11de-b7d3-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

Six Models of Cloud Computing Defined

I found this excellent definition of the six models of cloud computing, in my recent surfing: http://blogs.msdn.com/uspublicsector/default.aspx
Applies not only to federal space, but to all industries.

Why the Interest in EMR?

I’ve noticed the convergence of interest by end-users and vendors, on a few key topics which are: virtualization, cloud computing and healthcare. The ‘why’ of this is simple: there is money to be had in selling in these areas.
What’s perhaps unexpected, at least to me, is the strong convergence of how these areas overlap - [...]

SNW: Notes from the Cloud Summit

At this year’s SNW, I attended the Cloud Summit held on Monday afternoon, April 6. The speakers included Analysts and End-Users. Please enjoy my notes.

IDC predictions and data:

Cloud adoption and growth are predicted to outpace growth of other spending over the next 3 years; CAGR of ~5%
Cloud is expected to represent 25% of incremental [...]