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This Week in Cloud, August 25, 2011: Salesforce.com raises revenue expectations, CA service operations insight, Vivek Kundra’s cloud legacy has some federal skeptics, Is cloud brokering simply about commoditization? And more…
Cloud News
- After announcing a 38% rise in year-over-year quarterly revenues last week, Salesforce.com raised its revenue predictions for the rest of the year. The company expects to be the first enterprise cloud computing company to exceed $2.1 billion in annual revenues, according to this IT Pro article.
- CA Technologies introduced CA Service Operations Insight 3.0, which analyzes service delivery across traditional IT and cloud environments. For more information, read this article in Information Management.
- While Vivek Kundra, the former CIO for the federal government, has returned to academia after his 2-year stint, his cloud-centric vision is being met with some skepticism by the federal chiefs that now have to carry out the plan, according to this New York Times article.
- This SearchCloudComputing article discusses whether the Amazon Web Services cloud is finally enterprise-ready.
Feature article
Why cloud computing hype isn’t bad for IT after all
By Jay Fry
A week or two back, ReadWriteWeb ran and published the results of a reader poll of the "most over-hyped cloud technologies." Amusingly, the results (aside from a NoSQL mention) read like the basic NIST definition of the key components of cloud computing. Software as a Service, private clouds, Infrastructure as a Service, and Platform as a Service all made the top 5.
Wow, I thought. That barely scratches the surface. Plenty more cloud computing terms were enjoying their moment of irrational exuberance, but were being left out in the cold by this particular survey. A few Twitter conversations unearthed some very deserving nominations. Read the full article for more.
Cloud Views
- In this Forbes article, Appirio CTO Glenn Weinstein writes about why there is a need for cloud middlemen. Weinstein writes in Computerworld Weekly that cloud brokering is not about commoditization.
- This Computerworld article focuses on how to prepare for the real costs of cloud computing. Some of the largest unexpected costs identified are data storage and movement and the cost of integrating software applications from different vendors in the cloud.
- In this CloudPro article, Clive Longbottom explores whether Oracle’s cloud strategy will be a success.
MSP Corner
- This MSP Mentor article describes five sales tips for MSPs to help acquire new customers.
- Does the potential for a “double-dip” recession have implications for the cloud offerings of service providers? This MSP Mentor article provides thoughts on specific steps service providers can take.
Upcoming Cloud Events
- VMworld 2011: August 29 – September 1, Las Vegas
- Dreamforce 2011: August 30 – September 2, San Francisco
- MSPWorld: September 13 – 15, Austin, Texas
- Hosting & Transformation Summit 2011: September 25 – 27, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Virtual Cloud Connect: September 29, virtual
