Recent articles by Jim Metzler
October 31, 2011
The two primary forms of public cloud computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), are both growing dramatically in popularity. Over the last few years, the primary focus of the IaaS providers has been on offering the basic compute and storage resources required to run applications.
May 26, 2010
In a recent newsletter we expressed our opinion that virtualization and cloud computing change everything. In that newsletter we focused on some of the technology and management changes that are associated with virtualization and cloud computing. In this newsletter we will discuss one of the ways that virtualization changes how IT organizations buys software tools.
May 12, 2010
As IT organizations make some of the changes that the vendors are suggesting, their environment will become more complex, at least in the short term.