techcloud.com: a blog about web 2.0, search, cloud, collaboration, Ruby on Rails, Microsoft, Google, and other fun stuff

Category Archives: cloud

What’s new

Hey everyone, been a while since I last posted.  Here is a quick update. I am now working at a great company, Datapipe, as VP of Cloud Strategy.   Datapipe has a great team, a great story, and great customers in many different industries that trust Datapipe’s managed services to be there for them 24×7. [...]

In a world run by lawyers, wither the cloud?

It always cracks me up when I read what companies will and won’t do because of their legal team.   We all know that IP and privacy law is immensely important, but I think we lose sight of the big picture when we presume that innovation can be stunted by legalese. Case in point, Mike Vizard [...]

Email Service Guide Review: Power Panel Makes Google Apps More Complete

Email Service Guide is an online guide to email service providers, including reviews, comparisons, and a database of available providers. ESG is also the premier source of news articles relating to the email field. Recently ESG published a review of LTech’s Power Panel for Google Apps. Here is an overview of the article:
While Google Apps [...]

Microsoft embracing open-source web platforms (finally)

Cloud news of the day goes to Microsoft.  Saw this tweet (thanks @mdesilver) James Urquhart (@jamesurquhart) 12/2/09 7:21 PM RT @llangit: RT @mhindsbo: #Azure supports .NET languages, such as C# + VB + Java, PHP, Python and now also Ruby http://tinyurl.com/yfs7cn6 James Urquhart from eWeek reports that Azure is now supporting Ruby on Rails. This is exciting – you [...]

Google Sites API and Sharepoint Move – more power under the hood

LTech is proud to announce a new product, Sharepoint Move. From InformationWeek: Google partner LTech has already build an application called SharePoint Move for Google Apps using the API to help liberate data, as Google might put it, from SharePoint. Sharepoint Move is based on the Google Sites APIs.  These types of APIs are what makes [...]

Jack Bauer says the Cloud is ready for the Enterprise – sort of

More evidence that the Cloud is not only ready for the enterprise, but is already being used. From GigaOm (emphasis mine): “I spoke with founding member Paul Kurtz, partner at Good Harbor Consulting, to get some details on the news — and I was a little surprised by what he had to say. While questions [...]

Cloud Jargon Watch: Cloudbursting

Cloudburst: From the Vocabulary of Cloud Computing: The dynamic deployment of a software application that runs on internal organizational compute resources to a public cloud to address a spike in demand. A Google search reveals some of the history of the term.  It was coined by Jeff Barr from Amazon Web Services, and then developed [...]

The Cloud: Pure “e”

“You want bleeding-edge mission-critical cross platform robust scalable architectures?  Well, duh. That’s what everybody wants.  What you want is “e.” Pure e.” I lived through the dotcom bust – I was a fresh faced developer just starting to get my stride.   I was in the office with too many Aeron chairs in a hip loft with [...]

Entry Level Cloud Computing for Enterprises

As the saying goes, “No one’s been fired for buying IBM,” so let’s look at some low-risk, high-return entry points into the cloud for today’s IT manager

Do interesting things with Google Apps

What else can developers do for Google Apps?  A open, flexible Facebook-style API for Apps would be awesome.  Imagine the community building the next generation office platform. Right now, developers outside of Google can write Gadgets that live on the outside layout areas of GMail. Google developers have done some interesting things with Labs – I [...]

ss_blog_claim=77c0780e64c123f107896646c0ee8870