I recently read through a new Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) Partner Guide called 7 Keys to Comparing Google Apps Premier Edition with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Discrepancies and misdemeanors aside, the biggest problem I have with the piece is that it’s the wrong comparison if you want to sell Google Apps to customers. The [...]

Follow the link in the article to the McKinsey report, it’s a highly worthwhile read. I think the last comment sums of the net effect of McKinsey’s observations and how nascent the market is, especially for cloud services:
But IBM said it is seeing many customers adopt a mix of public and private cloud models to [...]

from an upcoming article series by Char Sample, Senior Scientist, BBN Technologies and Diana Kelley, Partner, SecurityCurve

Hi All – Char and I are working on a set of CC Security articles – here’s our current abstract. Comments on what you’d like to see in the article are welcome!

Cloud Computing is generating a lot of buzz [...]

from Karen Hobert’s Connecting Dots by Karen Hobert
Since its announcement of the Software+Services strategy in 2006, Microsoft has been steadily refining and growing it’s online offerings. Over the last two years Microsoft has unveiled it’s strategy at regular intervals. Thus far we’ve been taken from the S+S strategy in the summer of 2006 through the [...]

from *Spire Security* Viewpoint by Pete Lindstrom

As noted by many, the phrase “cloud computing” is ambiguous enough to encompass everything (and therefore nothing). I think at the very least we should be discussing the cloud in terms of connections that terminate there.