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Breaking news: TeamDrive is "Cool Vendor in Privacy" 2013
Good news from Germany. The cloud storage solution for enterprises TeamDrive has been named as a „Cool Vendor in Privacy“ 2013 by Gartner. In particular, the growing use of tablets and smartphones lead to an increased demand for hybrid cloud services that are equally easy to use and have to provide the highest level of […]
AWS OpsWorks: More PaaS functionality in Amazon's cloud portfolio
Correctly, we name the Amazon Web Services (AWS) as an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). AWS Elastic Beanstalk splits the stock, whether the service should be counted as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS). Anyway, AWS provides various PaaS functionality in its cloud portfolio for some time and extends it now with AWS OpsWorks (still in beta). What is AWS OpsWorks? […]
Netflix releases more "Monkeys" as open source – Eucalyptus Cloud will be pleased
As GigaOM reported, Netflix will publish more services similar to its Chaos Monkey and the Simian Army under the open source license on Github in the near future. The Chaos Monkey The Chaos Monkey is a service running on the Amazon Web Services which is looking for Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) and terminates instances (virtual […]
"Liquid Work"
Luca Hammer, Gründer von work.io diskutiert in diesem Vortrag das Thema „Liquid Work“. Genauer geht es darum, was sich hinter diesem Begriff verbirgt, wie man es einsetzen kann, welchen Einfluss es hat und wie sich Unternehmen in diesem neuen Bereich orientieren sollten.
"Work 2.0: Give and Take"
arago CEO Chris Boos talks about his view of Work 2.0 and how he is implemented this new kind of worklife in his own company.
"The Shape of Disruption"
During his key note at the CloudOps Summit 2012 in Frankfurt, Microsoft’s Tim O’Brien showed that disruptive technologies are often assumed to drive outright replacement of existing technologies, but disruptions don’t always take the same shape. The end state of the cloud disruption is on a path to become hybrid cloud. Tim discussed the dynamics […]
APIs impact for Cloud Computing
Guillaume Balas is Chief Marketing Officer at 3scale. In this interview he talks about APIs and their impact for Cloud Computing. CloudUser: What’s the special of a cloud api comparing a “normal” api? Guillaume Balas: APIs come in a variety of flavors: from language APIs which allow programmers to use high level functions and modules […]
"Consumerization of IT": The new BUZZ and pretty cool!

Consumerization of IT basically means that not the IT-department or the purchasing department are responsible for which devices the employees use. They choose the device and software they want. For example, everybody heard the new term „Bring your own device“. I think consumerization of IT is – based on cloud, SaaS and mobile technologies – […]