Phil Wainewright
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Planetary-scale computing
If you really want to know how to build a cloud, look at how Google architects its data center infrastructure to produce economies of scale at a global level.
Citizen gateway gov.uk runs on Amazon
One notable nugget buried deep inside Alex Howard’s O’Reilly Radar write-up of the UK’s new online government platform is that it runs on Amazon EC2. Not hosted on some private government cloud but on the same public AWS servers that everyone else has access to. That’s a vote of confidence in the robustness of public [...]
The cloud is forked
Enterprises are adopting two types of cloud. One is less risky but inherently flawed. The other offers greater rewards but very few so far have succeeded with it
Shock as tech news site researches own story
Kudos to InfoWorld for researching and breaking its story about the sudden-death vulnerability built into every Oracle database. This is a classic piece of technology journalism, researched over a two-month period during which the editorial team “conducted our own tests, verified information with sources we believe to be reliable, and consulted extensively with Oracle itself.” [...]
2011: the cloud has landed
Looking back on 2011, what stands out most of all is that the cloud became mainstream. Cloud computing even got its own Gartner hype cycle, and while some aspects of the technology are still deemed to be in the early wave of the cycle, others are far beyond any hype. Indeed, SaaS is so well [...]
Santa’s army of electronic helpers
When I was growing up in the 1960s, people were so confident of technological and economic progress that it seemed inevitable people would increasingly fill their lives with leisure activities while machines took over our work. Well, that’s not really how the 21st century has turned out. But on this one day of the year, [...]
Ambivalence in Europe and the cloud
It strikes me that the UK’s attitude to Europe has a lot in common with many IT people’s feelings about cloud computing. Many Brits seem happiest about Europe when it’s at arms-length — useful for occasional visits and an important source of business, but not to be trusted closer to home. IT feels the same [...]
Appirio acquires Saaspoint for push into Europe
In its fourth acquisition of the past 12 months, cloud integrator Appirio has announced it is buying long-established European pureplay Salesforce.com integrator Saaspoint. The acquisition is Appirio’s first significant foray into the European theater, delivering on the international expansion promised after GGV Capital and Salesforce.com invested in the company in August. Saaspoint was founded in [...]
Can it be third time lucky for SAP?
At first sight, the recruitment of Successfactors CEO and founder Lars Dalgaard to SAP’s executive board — once it completes its acquisition announced this weekend — looks promising. There’s been plenty of comment in the past 36 hours on how this will bolster SAP’s cloud strategy. Except that SAP doesn’t have a good record of [...]
Enterprise software pivots to new stacks
Despite being unsexy in many people’s eyes, enterprise software has been getting a lot of VC loving of late — or at least, a certain type of enterprise software. Last month there was Workday’s mammoth $85 million round and the equally eye-popping $81 million raised by Box.net to pursue its enterprise market ambitions. Yesterday come [...]
