Hosted by Blue Mountain Labs CTO David Linthicum and President Bill Russell, this podcast is a no-hype look at the world of Cloud Computing, focusing on how to prepare the traditional enterprise to leverage resources outside of their firewalls. This podcast talks about what's new, what's working, and has expert guests who will provide you with the advice you need to be successful in the clouds.
  • News Topics:    Dave and JP:  Cloud Connect Roundup URL: http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/virtual/232600876Cloud Connect, a UBM/TechWeb event, always generates a lot...
  • Dave:   Survey: NoSQL adoption driven by schema hate                     By Barb Darrow    ... [[...
  • Dave: Amazon S3 Growth for 2011 - Now 762 Billion Objects As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon S3. We process over 500,000 requests per second for these...
  • Dave:  Amazon fuses your storage system with its cloud The way AWS Storage Gateway works is by securely storing data as a snapshot image within S3, then porting that data to the AWS Elastic...
  • Dave:  Why CES 2012 should have been called the Cloud Electronics Show The rise of what I call the retail cloud has been a real mover and shaker the past few years. Today, it's reached critical...
  • Dave:   Explosive Job Growth Seen for Cloud-Savvy IT Professionals A recent study of technology job want ads shows a 61 percent increase in demand nationwide for IT professionals with cloud...
  • Dave:   Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012 Research firm IDC is more bullish, estimating that worldwide IT spending will grow 6.9 percent year over year to $1.8 trillion in...
  • Dave:    Google App Engine high availability storage exits experimental stage The latest version of Google's SDK (software development kit) for its cloud platform App Engine includes...
  • Dave:    Cloud security: Better than you think Well, those IT pros need to get over it, said Joe Coyle, CTO of Capgemini, the system integrator and IT consultant.“Everyone is...
  • Dave:  Distributing computers in homes for use in federated clouds could both heat homes and power cloud computing Indeed, two researchers at the University of Virginia and four at Microsoft...