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By Thoran Rodrigues Takeaway: Thoran Rodrigues interviews Dr. Satwant Kaur, a leading expert on emerging technologies, about the required traits of the “smart cloud.” I’ve recently had the opportunity to have a conversation with Dr. Satwant Kaur on the topic of Smart Clouds. Dr. Kaur has an extensive history in IT, being the author of

By Thoran Rodrigues February 24, 2012, 6:00 AM PST Takeaway: Thoran Rodrigues says that while true cloud software is necessarily SaaS, not all software sold as a service really fits into the true cloud model. What are the distinguishing characteristics? The definition of software-as-a-service (SaaS) predates the rise of cloud computing, and it relates to

By Jason Hiner Takeaway: At its annual Symposium, Gartner unveiled its list of the 10 most strategic tech trends of 2012, including a controversial demotion of the cloud. Gartner analyst David Cearly peppered his audience of change-weary IT leaders with a new list of the tech trends that are going to rock their world next

BY: Leah McLaren One night last week I awoke to the sound of shattering glass. It was 2 a.m. and I was alone in my apartment, a ground-floor flat in a quiet London neighbourhood. Without stopping to think, I found myself charging out of bed to meet my intruder in a T-shirt. “No, no, no,

Passions about cloud computing vary from the ho-hum to the evangelical. The ho-hum crowd sees cloud computing as Back to the Future computing. Ride the DeLorean back to the 70s and return to the heyday of “timesharing” – i.e., renting computing resources on more powerful remote computers. Customers purchased resources by CPU hour, connect hour,

Studies indicate that there is an increasing demand for cloud services and much of it is coming from business information and communications technology users. Many large enterprises are concerned that the cost of ongoing maintenance is too high and are struggling to innovate. Smaller businesses simply cannot afford skilled staff as technology becomes more and

Let’s take a look at what customers/companies are looking to achieve with cloud computing: 1. According to a study conducted by Gartner in Q3/09, the acceptability and likelihood of enterprises beginning to plan or test cloud computing has increased three‐fold in the nine months since the previous survey was conducted. During the same period, companies