Michael Skok of North Bridge Venture Partners, keeps his finger on the pulse and vision of cloud technologies. He discusses where the cloud is headed, including new cloud formations.
Real-time performance monitoring is now available as vendors deploy SaaS applications to the cloud.
Conventional wisdom says enterprise adoption of cloud services will accelerate as offerings become mature and enterprise friendly. Here are unexpected developments that could dramatically accelerate enterprise migration to the public cloud.
Cloud bursting is when a private cloud service allows or enables the virtual machine to burst to a public ISP (Internet Service Provider) or Cloud provider. Typically enterprises will need to do this during times when their business requirements for capacity exceed what they are able to provide.
I spoke with Shekar Ayyar, VP of corporate strategy at VMware about the company's cloud strategy and approach to hybrid clouds and Platform-as-a-Service. Here's an exceprt of our conversation.