Category Archives: Cloud Computing
Performance Management – From the Cloud, Of the Cloud, For the Cloud
For long, cloud performance management has been an overloaded term. Initially, it referred to the ability to collect metrics from public cloud providers like Amazon EC2. At eG Innovations, we believe that there is a whole lot more to cloud … Continue reading
How Quickly are Enterprises Adopting the Cloud?
Clearly, anything cloud is hot these days. A recent survey by CDW, the distributor, offers interesting insights into what enterprises think about Cloud computing and where it plays in their future plans. The survey which covered organizations in business, government, … Continue reading
Outages Bring Cloud Monitoring in Focus!
Over the last week, Amazon’s cloud service had a serious outage that caused many popular web businesses to go offline for several hours and resulted in significant loss of business. All of a sudden, many in the press (and users … Continue reading
Agility – Not Cost – is Driving Private Cloud Computing
According to Gartner, agility (not cost) is the most important driving factor motivating private cloud computing deployments. If you have used a public cloud service provider and experienced a cloud-based service first hand, this is not surprising. Having the ability … Continue reading
VMworld 2010 – Taking the virtual roads to actual clouds
“Virtual Roads, Actual Clouds” was the theme of VMworld 2010 held at San Francisco last week. This was our fourth consecutive VMworld show and its amazing how the conference gets bigger each time. This year, VMworld Europe is being held … Continue reading
Virtualization 2.0 is Here!
A year ago, we had published a whitepaper on how server virtualization was going to move to the next phase of evolution – Virtualization 2.0 – and how manageability was going to be key to the success of these next-gen … Continue reading
Move Away from the Private, Public or Hybrid Cloud Debate and Focus on Business Value!
There has been a lot of debate on how cloud computing is going to evolve. This year’s Gartner IT Infrastructure Operations and Management Summit 2010 a couple of weeks ago was all about cloud computing. Clearly, the public cloud is … Continue reading
Do Monitoring Solutions Have to be Rearchitected to Monitor the Cloud?
Anything cloud is hot these days, and monitoring is no exception. Check out “cloud monitoring” on Google and you’ll see how many vendors have jumped on this bandwagon. Adding to the confusion is the usage of different terms – e.g., … Continue reading
Cloud Computing – Hype vs. Reality
When was the last time you attended a presentation or a webinar that did not have a mention of the “C” word? Many folks have gone overboard with this – check out the Citrix Cloud Center web page on the … Continue reading
