Notes from the Consultant's Jungle

Confusion Persists Through several posts on this blog, we discussed the many aspects of confusion around the term, “Cloud Computing.”¬† After attending this year’s Cloud Expo in New York City and seeing the same three-layer stack (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) slide in fifty half of the presentations, I have to conclude that confusion still exists in [...]

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Posted by Bob Landstrom The attention and interest in netbooks has been on the sharp increase over the past six months.  A recent post in IT Business Edge makes the claim that netbook sales can be credited with the resiliency the PC market has had through the recent recession. When one looks for the reasons [...]

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To many, the concept of Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and what-have-you as a Service (XaaS) is well understood.¬† The emergence of strong cloud based services facilitates a true paradigm shift in modern computing.¬† I’ve found though, that there remains a misunderstanding in some circles about exactly what this new [...]

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