How One City Embraced Virtualization as the Key to Success “The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.”                                                                                                –  Daniel P. Moynihan (1927-2003), [...]

CloudCheckr Over the past few years, there has been an explosive growth in cloud computing, mainly due to the cost efficiencies of its pay-as-you-go model as compared to legacy IT. [...]

NEWS: IBM L’Oréal Deal “It is wiser to find out than to suppose.”                                                               – Mark Twain (1835-1910), legendary author and humorist. There was once a time when businesses were done [...]

Online VMware Forum 2013: Get Real Benefits from Virtualization “Virtual” is usually a poor substitute for “real” – would you prefer playing Guitar Hero instead of rocking on stage? However, [...]

Cloud Collaboration The Power of Me We “Are you a team player?” – If you’ve interviewed for any position in the last five years, chances are you would have heard this [...]

Collaboration Clouds “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” – Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest basketball player ever. For those who follow basketball, Michael Jordan needs no introduction. For [...]

The God Particle Ever since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, went active in 2008, speculation has been rife that the elusive Higgs boson, [...]

Hiring A Cloud Broker The dictionary defines a “broker” as “a person who functions as an intermediary between two or more parties in negotiating agreements, bargains, or the like.” Almost [...]

Waiting For Godot The title of this post comes from one of the more interesting comments made during the Twitter chat on 12 April focusing on the interactions between the [...]

Supercomputing On the Cloud $1279 an hour – seems a lot to hire a computer, right? What if it’s a supercomputer capable of performing 240 trillion calculations per second, or [...]

Interview: Mr. Avinoam Nowogrodski – CEO & Co-Founder (Clarizen) Avinoam brings over 20 years of experience in sales, engineering and business management positions to Clarizen. Avinoam co-founded Clarizen with the [...]

Cloud Computing Risks vs Benefits On the average, over the last decade more than 40,000 people have been killed annually in automobile accidents in the United States. Now, this may [...]

Zynga – Cloud Computing Success The business world is abuzz with the upcoming Zynga IPO which is expected to raise $1 billion from investors and value the gaming company as [...]

Gaming as a Service “Gaming is no child’s play; it’s big business!” Quick, what’s the first thing that comes to mind when you visualize gaming? If you are thinking “unsocial [...]

How Cloud Computing Can Create Jobs As Peter Drucker wrote, new technologies do not reduce employment; they simply raise the level of skill required to be employed. Those who can [...]