I recently spoke with Phil Wainewright of ZDNet and had a great conversation regarding private cloud/private SaaS. The focus of the conversation was to help Phil understand some work we’ve been doin...

Salesforce.com (see previous CloudAve coverage) today announced Service Cloud 3, their customer service software available as SaaS. This new version ties social web to the customer service portal maki...

OK, maybe Steve Jobs’ reality distortion field is wearing off a bit and I might feel differently in a week when I get my iPad 2, but after playing with my Motorola Xoom a lot more...

A reference architecture is a solution with the “some assembly required” instructions missing.     As a developer and later an enterprise architect, I evaluated and leveraged untold num...

Posted by Aaron Wheeler This week we are thrilled to have a special guest joining us for Whiteboard Friday: Duane Forrester, a top-of-the-line SEO who went over to the other side of the fence and now...

Most websites load reasonably fast when visited by their average number of users. However, performance rapidly deteriorates when a site is overwhelmed by peak traffic (the times when the site’s tra...

The Pivot Conference is unique in its focus of seeking and dissecting branding’s next revolution: The Rise of the Social Consumer. In October 2010, the inaugural event took place in New York, uniti...

Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series on the advantages that cloud computing brings to the machine-to-machine space. It was first published as a white paper by Ken Fromm. Fromm is VP...

A lot has happened since my first article on the Stack Overflow Architecture. Contrary to the theme of that last article, which lavished attention on Stack Overflow's dedication to a scale-up strate...

The Xen.org community, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, announced today the availability of Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.0.  XCP 1.0 provides a full-featured virtualization platform solution fr...

It's almost exactly a year ago that Rajen Sheth, senior product manager for Google Apps, touted the superiority of Google's brand-spanking-new disaster recovery infrastructure and the advantages its e...

There's somethin' wrong with the cloud today, I think I know what it is. We're seeing things in a different way, but should we be judging a cloud provider by the color of their -- logo?It's seems that...

More than half of smaller firms plan to boost their 2011 budgets for collaboration software, according to Egnyte.

With Cisco Partner Summit happening in New Orleans this week there has been a lot of important news with the announcement of the Cloud Partner Program that enables and encourages Cisco Partners to dev...

Nearly 18 million blogs hosted by Wordpress were either slowed or offline this afternoon after the service was hit with an unusually large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, according to Aut...

Want more engagement and interaction on your blog?  Yeah, most of us do, here’s 50 tips to get you started: Blog Design: 1 – Put your picture on the front page and the About page...

It has been long rumoured that Google was working its own bid management platform. It now appears that it is slowly being added to Adwords accounts as part of a bigger roll out. It’s interesting th...

How many hours have you used the Internet today, or in an average week? Do you even remember the first time you surfed the Interweb? It wasn’t that long ago when some of us didn’t even know what t...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is opening a new data center in Tokyo, its fifth overall and second in Asia. The new AWS data center is noteworthy as we are seeing a number of new initiatives to open data...

Yahoo! has called it quits.  Ask.com and AOL are fading into obscurity.  And two major players for search engine dominance remain in the United States: Google and Bing.  Both are backed by deep fin...