Many believe that FaceBook is a significant threat to Google. It is predicted that FaceBook will earn $1B in 2010. Google has revenues of over $26B. There is an obviously huge disparity there. FaceBook has 500,000,000 active users. What Google has is a more solid foundation (code and biz model) for business. This is more [...]

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Some enterprise organizations such as Morgan Stanley are building Private Clouds. What is the reason? In their view, Public Clouds still have security and reliability concerns. While addressing some needs of how employees work, Private Clouds will have significant costs affiliated with their development, deployment and support. Companies replacing (or augmenting) legacy systems with Private [...]

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It is amazing that some folks still question the validity of cloud based computing. This doubt was somewhat understandable 10 years ago. Clearly, software as a service (SaaS), Cloud Computing is here to stay. If you still have doubts consider these facts: According to IBM global revenue from cloud computing will jump to $126 billion [...]

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Google just released in preview, Wave, to 100,000 users. What is Wave? Wave is a new collaboration tool. It allows for live sharing via voice, text, photos, videos and maps. Features include real-time editing as the discussion evolves. Google itself does not know where this new technology is going and how it will evolve. What we do know is that it is open source so that many apps can be built on the platform.

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Cloud computing is a new concept that many confuse with grid computing. This emerging technology incorporates technologies like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Web 2.0 where reliance is on the internet to satisfy a users needs. A few examples would be Salesforce.com, Google Apps and Amazon EC2, where the software resides on servers in the cloud, and users merely access them, most commonly through an internet browser. [...]

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