Is Virtualization Magic? (And Other Questions Your Manager May Ask)
One of the fun things about being a leader in IT is the opportunity to see new technology and explain it to others for the first time. We…
Articles by Mike Kirkwood
Tue, 29 March 2011
Fri, 4 June 2010
Practice Fusion Bundles the Cloud and Dell Hardware for Doctors
Practice Fusion, one of the SaaS electronic medical record (EMR) pioneers, has announced a Dell-based hardware system bundle for doctors…
Thu, 3 June 2010
Rackspace Cloud Grows to U.K. - Hosting VMware and Xen in Harmony
Today Rackspace announced that it plans to bring both public cloud services and VMWare-based private cloud to the U.K. by the end of…
Tue, 1 June 2010
U.S. Announces Community Health Data Initiative
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is introducing a collection of community data sets today in an event at the National…
Mon, 31 May 2010
Survey: More Than 80% of Businesses Support the iPad
In a new survey (which is still accepting responses for the rest of today) Citrix is asking its IT customers to characterize their support…
Wed, 26 May 2010
Facebook Privacy Briefing: Zuckerberg Shares that Privacy Does Matter
A single word, context, was the message in Facebook's briefing today. We liveblogged the event and are continuing to cover the aftermath…
SalesForce Ecosystem: Counting Carbon Credits in the Cloud
Today, SalesForce partners FinancialForce, the first native accounting package for SalesForce.com, and CloudApps, a new breed of carbon…
Mon, 24 May 2010
Map Reduce your Inbox: Yahoo Mail is Fighting Spam with Big Data
Is there a way to defeat spam? Late last week, the Yahoo Mail team shared news from an independent study that users of the Yahoo Mail…
Wed, 19 May 2010
Storm of Innovation: Google Partners with VMware for Apps, Clouds, and Widgets
Today at Google's annual conference, I/O, the company announced a partnership with VMware. This news immediately turned our minds to the…
Tue, 18 May 2010
Memcached and Beyond: NorthScale Raises Bar with $10m Series B
NorthScale is on the move. Hot off its recent accomplishment of winning several awards - including best in show at the 2010 Under the Radar…
Gist Gadget for Google Apps: A Look at the Social Inbox
Gist now is available as a Google Gadget, plugging its contact-enhancing knowledge base into the Gmail inbox. The company has integration…
Fri, 14 May 2010
Google Goes Native: Offers Sneak Peek at C++ Support in Chromium
This week, the Chromium project offered a sneak peak to its Native Client SDK. This project enables the browser to process C and C++ in…
Thu, 13 May 2010
CloudKick: Practical Efforts for Unifying the Cloud
The team over at CloudKick have been busy connecting open standards with its efforts to monitor cloud computing. By focusing on different…
Tue, 11 May 2010
Cloud Sherpas: Smoothing the Path for Google Apps in the Enterprise
Cloud Sherpas offers additional IT administrative tools that help make it easy to manage the increasingly popular Google Apps platform. The…
Wed, 5 May 2010
Requires a Village: A Quest for Payment Data Portability
In this post, we'll explore the tug-of-war landscape of the payments industry through the lens of payment gateway Braintree. The…
Tue, 4 May 2010
Where People and Licenses Meet: Outsourcing with Oracle and SaaS
Where there are definitions, there are reasons to bend them. Outsourcing, the practice of bringing outside organizations to manage a part…
Mon, 3 May 2010
Securing Google Apps: New Admin Feature Gives Real-Time Control
Google has been working to harden Google Apps for its arrival into the enterprise. The tools bring browser based productivity into another…
Sat, 1 May 2010
The Reverse of Spam: Wordpress Integration with SalesForce
When running blogs for community, and business interests, the important question of of "who" has visited has been a big challenge. This…
Fri, 30 April 2010
Got Linux? Red Hat Enterprise Licenses Now Portable to EC2
RedHat recently announced that premium enterprise subscription customers are now able to move their Red Hat Linux licenses to the Amazon…
Tue, 27 April 2010
Beyond IaaS: VMforce to Prime Enterprise Java for Cloud Delivery
Today, VMforce was officially unveiled by its parent organizations VMware and SalesForce. The companies came together to produce this…
Mon, 26 April 2010
Bringing Google, Facebook, Twitter Together: Third Party Login Grows Rapidly in 2010
This March has been a busy time for the leading architects of the social web. Twitter announced its @Anywhere at Chirp. Meanwhile…
Fri, 23 April 2010
Developer Trends: Ruby in the Cloud with Enterprise Class SLAs
Heroku is a platform that offers an effective join of the best parts of scaling cloud infrastructure with simple but great tools for…
Wed, 21 April 2010
One Approach to Growth: Build Your Own Cloud with vCenter in the Middle
Today, we got the chance to sit down with Aprimo, an on-demand marketing automation company that has built their software business around…
Tue, 20 April 2010
First Public Draft: Taking the Wraps off OAuth 2.0
The OAuth 2.0 draft specification is out there. The efforts of the group working on the specification are paying off in the form of an IETF…
