I don’t often put a “?” and a “!” in a post title, but today deserves it, mostly because of this post on WebGuild. I like the thinking (shown in a nice diagram) that makes a continuum from on premise to SaaS (Software as a service, not a misspelling of the airline). Licensing runs from traditional perpetual [...]

Just about everything in the tech space is being sprinkled with a bit of ‘cloud’ magic right now. Anyone with a data center product, hosted application or storage service is sliding it under the ‘cloud’ umbrella. It is somewhat ironic, given the recent Amazon outages, but there is no doubting that cloud computing is hot. [...]

Before I ask the question, let me answer it: ‘yes, but it depends’. There you go, one sentence and you are totally clued in – rush out and share your new found expertise with whomever you meet. Ok, may be I should wind back a bit. In the 90′s, IT departments installed LAN servers by the [...]