IBM recently released its second-quarter earnings report, citing impressive gains (Q2 revenues rose 12 percent to $26.7B). While the hardware side of IBM’s business is undoubtedly important, it’s the company’s ability to pivot to emerging market trends, especially the cloud, that had analyst James Kelleher of Argus Research bullish about the…

Recently ZDNet blogger Phil Wainewright published a post entitled “Safe-deposit box SaaS” comparing the disadvantages shared between private SaaS instances and safe deposit boxes at any bank. While comical in nature, this comparison rings true, and Phil makes a number of valid points on the similarities between the two. In the post, he lists out…

Morgan Stanley came out with a their latest research report on cloud computing. It’s a 100+ page document – plus four pages of disclaimers and disclosures! – so in the interest of time, I’ll take you quickly through what I think are top ideas worth discussion. Key takeaway? It's a new world and cloud is here to stay. - Economics in the Cloud…

CIO.com recently ran an interesting story on public vs. private clouds and the importance of cloud security. The article quotes Chris Swan, UBS’ security CTO, on the limitations of the public cloud in the enterprise. Swan predicts the emergence of private clouds, tailored to particular industries, which will compete with the public cloud for the…

So we learned last week that hackers successfully broke into one of Electronic Arts' systems, accessing a slew of users’ personal information, including email and mailing addresses, phone numbers and birth dates. The breach raises concerns about password security in the enterprise, especially as the consumerization of IT sees employees bringing…

Dropbox’s password breach last weekend and the initial word that it left its 25 million users exposed and caused quite a lot of great conversations around cloud security. And for good reason, especially given consumers’ expectation of security with the data they entrust to the service. But while Dropbox is predominantly a consumer application, the…

Richard Waters and Chris Nattal over at The Financial Times just wrote a nice article entitled Cloud threatens to end PC’s reign looking at the impact cloud services adoption is having on the PC. They do a great job pointing out that in this “post-PC” era, sales of PCs are still at 400m units annually and growing, but at the same time we are…

Interesting post from on the cloud downtime dilemma from Software Advice. It cites a Radicati Group study, which found that among popular on-premise email systems, there was an average of 30-60 minutes of unscheduled downtime per month, in addition to the 36-90 minutes of scheduled downtime – so between 66-120 minutes of total downtime per month…

Next week we’ll be hosting a webinar with our friends over at Rackspace about extending Active Directory to the cloud on Thursday, May 5th at 9AM PDT. In addition to an overview of the benefits of integrating cloud/SaaS apps to Active Directory, the webinar will also discuss different ways to deliver it, including: * Vendor APIs from apps like…

We announced some of our latest customers today, including AppDynamics, Drobo, Farm Credit Services of Mid-America, Rypple, and WhitePages. And we can’t help but brag – but our customers are some of the most innovative companies on the market today. Drobo is the maker of award-winning storage products that combine data protection, affordable…