September 19, 2013 | BIOCOM Boardroom 4510 Executive Drive, Plaza 7 San Diego, CA 92121 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM Cloud Migration Case Study: Why Liquid Grids Moved from AWS to AIS Learn why (and how) Liquid Grids made the transition from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to AIS (American Internet Services) for cloud computing. Liquid Grids is a San Diego-based …
451 Research: Cloud Consumption Rising
Good news: enterprise cloud computing is on the rise. Great news: outsourced enterprise cloud computing is on the rise. Business cloud adoption is growing and security concerns are being addressed. The trends are all positive. 451 Research article by Carl Brooks and Peter ffoulkes. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– 451 Research survey shows boom …
5 ADDITIONAL Benefits of Cloud Services
Just in case the “original” five benefits of cloud computing were not enough… …here are five more “unexpected benefits” that tag along with cloud adoption. Article by Joe McKendrick in Forbes. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———- 5 Cloud Benefits You Aren’t Likely To See In A Sales Brochure Cost savings… elasticity…. scalability…. load “bursting”…. …
VMworld, Aug 25-29 in San Francisco
August 25-29, 2013 | VMworld Campus San Francisco, CA Join us as we celebrate the 10th Annual VMworld US! VMworld 2013 offers a full schedule of learning opportunities that will show you how virtualization and cloud computing can help you spend less time and money supporting underlying IT infrastructure and more time on areas that yield business and competitive value …
Uncle Sam Says Yes to the Cloud
“Up and to the right” is the direction of cloud spending — even for the government, which is typically a laggard when it comes to implementation of technology solutions. Article by Nicole Henderson in The Whir. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———— US Government IaaS Spending to Reach $5.4 Billion by 2017: IDC Report Though …
Don’t Fear the Reaper — or AWS, Either
Some people prefer to buy whatever is cheap and easy and ubiquitous — Starbucks, Subway, AWS — but other prefer a bit more variety, customization, and service — Peets, Jersey Mike’s, and AIS. That’s OK; vive la différence — and besides, there’s plenty of cloud business to go around as described in the article below by Phillip Koblence in The …
Energy Rate Increases Point Up (and to the Cloud)
As if businesses needed another reason for migrating to the cloud, here it is: energy savings. Timely, too, because our friends at San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) are about to unleash double-digit percentage increases on our energy costs. Ouch ouch ouch. Article by Nicole Henderson in The Whir. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– …
Shift Your Risk — In the Cloud
This is an interesting article by 451 Research analyst Own Rogers that takes a look at public cloud computing from a risk perspective. Since many CIOs and CFOs are risk-averse, it will resonate. Dedicated resources are only cheaper on a per-unit basis if utilization is high — and the risk of the forecast being wrong is non-trivial. Emphasis in red …
Flash Storage Explained
All hat and no cattle? All flash and no pan? All disk and no flash? Read this article by 451 Research analysts Rhonda Ascierto and Tim Stammers to get the low-down on the hottest new storage technology. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———– Flash storage: The ‘Scarlet Speedster’ of disruptive datacenter technology Flash memory, the …
Cloud Pricing Demystified, Part 2
The article below is the second of two articles on Cloud Pricing; the first article is available on our website here. By 451 Research analyst Owen Rogers. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——- Cloud pricing 201: appraising the application Previously, we have used the analogy of a hotel to show the pricing structure of compute …
