VeriSign and other registries are set to increase their wholesale price of domain names effective October 1, 2008.
The new .com price will be $6.86. With ICANN’s 20 cent fee that means the minimum cost to your registrar is $7.06. .Net prices will be $4.23 before ICANN’s fee.
Earlier today Domain Name Wire wrote about GoDaddy’s latest price increase on .net and .org domains, which have shot up about 30% to $13.19 including the ICANN fee.
Almost all of the registries are increasing prices, and eNom sent out a notice today that its More»

Labels: cloud computing, domains, Online Advertising

Lawson Software’s chief executive, Harry Debes, believes software as a service will collapse in two years.
In an interview, Debes told ZDNet Asia why SaaS is history repeating itself, and why his company is not going down the same path as its bigger competitors that have jumped aboard the ‘on-demand’ bandwagon.
Q: All the other big players are going on-demand. Is cloud computing the next big thing?
A: This on-demand, SaaS phenomenon is something I’ve lived through three times in my career now. The first time, it was called ’service bureaux’. The second time, it More»

Labels: cloud computing, saas

This article was submitted by Sumit Datta, HCL Techologies India. Articles can be submitted by using this link.
Why should your IT go Green
Rising global warming, increased energy costs and greater awareness about its socio-economic implications has forced organizations to look for ways to reduce their carbon-emission footprint. However, what has escaped attention is the massive amount of energy your IT consumes. Enterprise IT, which accounts for up to 40 percent of an organization’s energy requirement, has a big role to play to reduce greenhouse More»

Labels: cloud computing, green technology, virtualization

Shane Robinson, Chief Strategy & Technology Office for HP recently outlined some  major trends that will shape the future of the technology industry.  He believes we are in the early stages of a major shift, one that will transform how we access information, share content, and communicate. Some major trends we will see include:
1) cloud computing and everything as a service
2) quantum leap improvements in user experience
3) search will be done for you and not by you
4) from a static web to an intelligent dynamic web
5) context, relevance and availability of More»

Labels: cloud computing, crowdsourcing, saas, user experience, web

Companies may be expecting too much from cloud computing, but other technologies such as video conferencing are starting to live up to their promises, according to a study released last week.
Gartner Inc. of Stamford, Conn. has published Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2008, which discusses a wide range of technologies and separates the gee-whiz factor from the reality. The report includes an analysis of cloud computing, social networking, green IT, microblogging and telepresence.
“You really need to know why you’re adopting these technologies,” said Jackie Fenn, the vice-president and Gartner Fellow who contributed to More»

Labels: cloud computing

Here is another article on clould computing and how it is gathering steam in the enterprise. It is by Dion Hinchcliffe and it is excessively wordy but good and image is overly complicated - for a straight forward image see Cloud Computing Basics . The also contradicts some of the basic myths of cloud computing (SaaS) outlined by BusinessWeek in an article called the Five Big Myths About SaaS.
Here are links to more insightful articles on cloud computing & SaaS.
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Dell has used an under handed tactic made famous by Tim O’Reilly. The company has trademarked the name “cloud computing”. O’Reilly trademarked the name “Web 2.0″ (and even claimed to have coined it - See: Shame On You Tim O’Reilly) to prevent others from using the term for commercial purposes. This is precisely what Dell intends to do.
Cloud computing is a term/phrase used to describe software processing that’s run on servers that reside virtually and are accessed via the web. Terms like “cloud computing” and “Web 2.0″ are generic and are in More»

Labels: cloud computing, oreilly, unethical, web 2.0

BusinessWeek has a piece on the biggest myths about Software as a Service (SaaS). This article address some of the main misunderstanding associated with SaaS such as up front investment, deployment time and integration complexity and cost. The article is from the Marks Group, an on-premise software vendor. In my opinion SOME on-premise software vendors stand to lose heavily to on-demand software vendors with the expansion of cloud computing. The comments to the this article are even more insightful and hilarious at times.
Myth 1: SaaS is cheaper. No, it’s not. In fact, it More»

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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
IaaS clouds make it very easy and affordable to provision resources such as servers, connections, storage, and related tools necessary to build an application environment from scratch on-demand. IaaS clouds are the underlying infrastructure of PaaS and SaaS clouds. A common characteristic of IaaS clouds is that they are more complex to work with but with that complexity comes a high degree of flexibility. So, these are generally lower level services in the grand scheme of things; not in a derogatory sense of course. You’ll be dealing with virtual More»

Labels: cloud computing, iaas, paas, saas

Apple continued to scramble over the weekend to limit the damage caused by MobileMe, the company’s first step into cloud computing, by posting on Friday an additional longer, four-paragraph apology, and acknowledging that the new service was still not problem-free.
Intended to supplant the company’s aging .Mac Web service, MobileMe is meant to make Apple a player in the online portal world now dominated by Yahoo, Microsoft and Google. So far it has served only to tarnish Apple’s reputation for producing solid, pain-free, software. More>>
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