Category: Blog Posts
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Balanced Perspective
Michael Krigsman’s CIO analysis: Examining Amazon’s cloud failure provides a balanced perspective on the recent Amazon outage. He focuses on five main points: The sky did not fall and the cloud is here to stay. Cloud leverage can be either friend or enemy. Cloud is still maturing and evolving. Self-reliance and proper planning…
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Disasters Come in All Shapes and Sizes
Analysis of Amazon Outage In a year that has already seen earthquakes, tsunamis and tornadoes of epic proportions, those of us who live in the world of cloud computing learned that disasters of equivalent proportions can happen from within the data center and not just to the data center. Today…
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Is Cloud Part of Your IT Strategy?
Daryl Plummer, Gartner Fellow, looks at The Evolution of Cloud Computing Into an Essential IT Strategy. Of particular interest is Mr. Plummer’s guidance on private vs. public cloud. He suggests considering private cloud only when the public cloud cannot meet your needs. This is consistent with the approach we are…
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Outage Shouldn’t Call Cloud into Question
Perspective On the morning of April 21, Amazon Web Services, the global leader in cloud computing, experienced a significant issue in their U.S. East (Virginia) region. The technical post-mortem has yet to determine the root cause, but whatever the finding one thing is already perfectly clear. The future of the…
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Who is Moving to the Cloud?
A Brief Perspective As we move further into 2011, interest in “the cloud” continues to grow at a strong pace. We are seeing customers, and prospective customers, generally fall into one of three categories. Those starting in the cloud, those moving to the cloud and those considering the cloud. Taking…
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Lawson CUE11 One Week Later
A week ago today, the Lawson Customer User Exchange conference, or CUE for short, closed in Boston. While CUE is extremely busy, it’s also one of my favorite times of year because I have the opportunity to meet with a large number of Lawson customers from all over the world. It’s an opportunity to…
Heath Brownsworth 