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 piece is great collateral to demonstrate the differences between on-premises and hosted services but it does not say why way GAPE is say better than Microsoft Exchange Online. To be fair, and not to single out Google, I’ve found that the collateral from major cloud computing vendors (including IBM and Microsoft) tend to do a pretty good job at presenting arguments in favor of cloud-based… Continue reading: Apples to Kumquats: Comparing Cloud Service Offerings
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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 reduce the cost of supporting specific applications such as business resiliency, information protection and collaboration services. Thinning Clouds? Report Questions Value Of Cloud Computing – Software – IT Channel News by CRN Continue reading: Thinning Clouds? Report Questions Value Of Cloud Computing – Software – IT Channel News by CRN from an upcoming article series by Char Sample, 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 general availability of US-based consumer and business grade hosted messaging, communications, and collaboration services in November 2008. Last week Microsoft’s cloud got bigger with the general availability of worldwide Microsoft Online Services for any sized company. According to Microsoft’s press release: …the Business Productivity Online Suite, part of Microsoft Online Services, is now available for trial to businesses of all sizes in 19… Continue reading: A Bigger Microsoft Cloud 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. That is, we should think of cloud computing as providing services for either the connection source (e.g. virtual desktop infrastructure) or a connection destination (target servers). If the service happens in the cloud, but operates on traffic that is just passing through the cloud, I don’t think it should be a part of “cloud computing.” That means that proxies and other inline security functions are not “cloud” proper since the termination points… Continue reading: Just Passing Through the Cloud
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