Apps.gov = Huge Step Forward for Cloud Computing

Please see my latest post at The Cloud Option about federal government cloud computing: Apps.gov, FISMA compliance, Salesforce, and Google.

Enterprise Demand Driving Vendor Consideration of Internal Clouds

Please see my latest post at The Cloud Option about an emerging micro-trend in cloud computing platforms—the licensing of PaaS platforms for use in private data centers.

Introducing The Cloud Option Blog

I have moved my blogging activity over to The Cloud Option blog. Please follow me there, although I will continue to announce new posts in this blog as well.

Transparent Data Encryption: Experience from the Trenches

The Oracle Technology Network just published my latest article, titled Transparent Data Encryption: Experience from the Trenches. If you plan to use Oracle or back up databases using public cloud-based services such as Amazon.com’s EC2 or S3, then you will probably have special interest in this article because you will no doubt want to use [...]

Multi-Tenant Times

I know, I know. I don’t have a very good track record updating my blogs. But now it’s time for me to change all of that. My main problem is that I get involved in projects that are all-consuming, and neglect my desire to regularly share my thoughts on Software as a Service (SaaS), Database [...]