Hovhannes Avoyan

Here’s an interesting analogy on cloud computing for you! In the Christian Science Monitor’s Reformed Broker blog, the writer reports on the recent RSA Conference on computer security held earlier this month in San Francisco, and he quotes an observation from an attendee that app... (more)

Remember when the exciting thing about virtualization of computing was all about cost savings – via consolidation of servers, applications and bandwidths into on-demand virtual equivalents? Well, now, the real exciting stuff is all about portability – made possible by the cloud. ... (more)

Is your website available to end users 99.8% or more of the time? If not, then count yourself in the “laggard” category, according to standards set by The Aberdeen Group, in its 2008 report “The Performance of Web Applications: Customers are Won or Lost in One Second.” In that st... (more)

Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer OK; I’m not skipping or anything, but I am happy. CA Inc., obviously on the path to acquire more and more cloud technology providers in order to build up its own capabilities for cloud computing, is joining the ever-louder chorus of those in our ... (more)

Monitis, a provider of affordable, easy-to-use, 100% Cloud-based, network and systems monitoring solutions, today announced that it has launched a totally new and completely revamped website. This addition caps a 12 month period in which Monitis has doubled its user base, won th... (more)

CA Session at Cloud Expo CA, the IT management software maker, is becoming an aggressive player in the cloud computing arena. Observers are noting that the company’s third cloud-related acquisition, of a firm called 3Tera, which developed cloud computing technology AppLogic, wi... (more)

Hewlett-Packard on February 24 opened an advanced collaborative research lab in Singapore to support its growing cloud business – what it calls its “Everything as a Service” vision. “Our new lab in Singapore is a key component of the transformation strategy put in motion less th... (more)

If you’re familiar with Citrix Online, you know they’ve got a suite of SaaS and cloud-based applications that enable companies to do things like arrange on-the-spot meetings online (GoToMeeting). Another example: Consumers and business travelers can use Citrix Online to access th... (more)

If you’re a small business owner, you’ll identify with the following numbers and be heartened by the following forecast. First the numbers: There’s anywhere from 14 million to 22 million small businesses online in the U.S., and they spend about 83% of their online marketing budg... (more)

Good news for the cloud. Profits were way up in Q4 2009 for Salesforce.com. And that positive news would seem to answer the lingering question that many in the business world have about the cloud: Can I trust a third party to store my proprietary business data on the web? Accord... (more)

Security Session at Cloud Expo Some good news on the issue of security in the cloud. First, CA, Inc., has just joined the Cloud Security Alliance as a corporate member to help establish and promote best practices for security in cloud computing. The CSA is a non-profit organizati... (more)

I can tell you this from talking day to day with companies looking to give their web businesses an edge: they are not happy with the technology that’s supporting their sites during all-important peak traffic periods, for instance during the holiday season or a special promotion. ... (more)

Windows Azure Session at Cloud Expo I read in BusinessWeek that Microsoft business software president Stephen Elop expects the giant’s launch of Office 2010 in June, which will include a cloud-based version, to pump up revenue and profit. I quote: “In that cloud environment, we a... (more)

San Jose, CA – February 25, 2010 – Monitis, the leading provider of affordable, easy-to-use, 100% Cloud-based, network and systems monitoring solutions, today announced that it has opened yet another front in its battle to save IT managers’ time - it has integrated its Universal ... (more)

5th Cloud Expo in New York This April Last week San Antonio-TX-based Rackspace introduced a new cloud computing program for its 1,500 global partners. The new cloud partner program will be different from other Rackspace partner programs – managed hosting and Email & Apps – as the... (more)

San Jose, CA – February 19, 2010 – Monitis, the leading provider of 100% Cloud-based network and systems monitoring solutions, today announced the deployment of another monitoring node, this time in the Netherlands. This brings to 9 the number of Monitis monitoring nodes availabl... (more)

Private Cloud Session at Cloud Expo  Don’t forget to have a service level agreement (SLA) in place, as well as an exit strategy when dealing with cloud providers. That’s the message of a recent article that I read on how to protect your company’s investment in the cloud. Great, ... (more)

IBM Session at Cloud Expo IBM is opening a new, 100,000 square-foot data center in North Carolina to support new computing models, including cloud computing. The new center is being built at IBM’s facility at Research Triangle Park campus and is expected to provide many services ... (more)

What’s got into Oracle? Even though company president Larry Ellison has belittled cloud computing in the past (He’s publicly called cloud computing the “future” of computing, the “present” and “past” of computing, citing Salesforce.com’s existence for the past 10 years, and calli... (more)

This is the trend we’ve been all waiting for – IT spending is bouncing back, as businesses invest more in new network equipment, desktops, software, cell phones and other technology. I read about this yesterday in The Wall Street Journal, as it reported on Cisco Systems Inc.’s 23... (more)