Category Archives: Cloud computing

Who is in Charge of Cloud Security?

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Henry Nelson

Cloud service providers believe their customers are responsible for security, and license accordingly. That is the message cited by David Rosenbaum in his article on security risk and liability in the cloud. “Cloud,” says Bruce Lynne, managing partner of Financial … Continue reading →

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Head in the Clouds

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Henry Nelson

ERP analyst Derek Singleton posted a paean to the SaaS variant of cloud computing. With his head firmly in the clouds looking for rainbows covering five points, Derek does trip over one salient feature of modern computing—the user experience should … Continue reading →

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Is Enterprise Integration the Next Hurdle for the Cloud?

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Henry Nelson

Stephanie Neil poses an interesting question on whether SaaS and Cloud solutions create as much work in enterprise integration as they solve in reduced hardware and storage management. Enter software as a service (SaaS) applications, which might seem to be … Continue reading →

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Ultimate Justification for Cloud ERP

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Henry Nelson

Chris Chappinelli identifies what may be the most important justification for moving your ERP to the cloud – cyber-security. Given the increasing complexity and frequency of attacks on customer and employee data, many IT departments are ill prepared to face … Continue reading →

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Promise of the Cloud

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Henry Nelson

What, exactly, is Cloud Computing? Some degree of skepticism about cloud computing is understandable. The marketing hype surrounding it smacks of previous campaigns by consultants and technology companies to lure corporate investment. To wit: Y2K paranoia, dot.com hysteria and fiber … Continue reading →

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Reliability of Cloud vs On-Premises Software

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Henry Nelson

Lauren Carlson at Software Advice makes the point that the cloud reliability problems we have seen lately should not be considered in isolation. That is a very helpful point. She holds up the service level agreement as guarantor of cloud … Continue reading →

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Cloud Reliability Stumbles

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Henry Nelson

Some big names in the cloud world tripped up over the past few weeks, raising questions of how reliable cloud delivery of enterprise software actually is. How big a deal were these outages? First to stumble was Amazon.com’s cloud services … Continue reading →

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Vendor Margins and the Cloud

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Henry Nelson

It’s all cloud all day in the buzz about the software business, and that definitely includes ERP software. With conventional wisdom pointing to a need for purpose written cloud software (multi-tenant architectures etc.), it is no surprise that on the … Continue reading →

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Multi-Tenant ERP Solutions: A Fundamentally Bad Idea

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Lane Nelson

Sometimes, a really good idea gets pushed too far with really bad results. For example, someone once invented a bathroom computer workstation so you can skip the newspaper and roll a computer workstation in front of you and use the … Continue reading →

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Cloud not Cheaper than On Premesis

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Henry Nelson

As the cloud reality replaces the hype machine, sober analysis of costs and benefits is becoming available. Chris Chiappinelli sums it up nicely: A few years ago, there was a rampant assumption that software delivered via cloud computing was automatically … Continue reading →

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