Adrian Cockcroft, who runs all things cloud for Netflix, called it “technical indigestion.” His group is releasing an open source project a week – including new monitoring tools that came out this week. “We’re driving a lot of innovation but we’re giving people indigestion. There’s only so many blog posts you can read in a day,” he said. –'Analysis paralysis' slowing down cloud adoption

Adrian Cockcroft, who runs all things cloud for Netflix, called it “technical indigestion.” His group is releasing an open source project a week – including new monitoring tools that came out this week. “We’re driving a lot of innovation but we’re giving people indigestion. There’s only so many blog posts you can read in a day,” he said. –'Analysis paralysis' slowing down cloud adoption

Only 8% of office system users employ cloud-hosted email and desktop applications, according to analyst company Gartner Gartner expects that 10% of enterprise email inboxes will be hosted in the cloud by the end of 2014. ...adoption will accelerate from the first half to 2015, reaching 33% penetartiong in 2017 and 60% by 2022 –Just 8% of workers use cloud for office apps These figures - which I pretty much believe - always baffle me.

Only 8% of office system users employ cloud-hosted email and desktop applications, according to analyst company Gartner Gartner expects that 10% of enterprise email inboxes will be hosted in the cloud by the end of 2014. ...adoption will accelerate from the first half to 2015, reaching 33% penetartiong in 2017 and 60% by 2022 –Just 8% of workers use cloud for office apps These figures - which I pretty much believe - always baffle me.

“Our ISV customers have said, we want to be able to compete in the cloud,” explains CEO Philip Pead. So Progress also announced that it would be gradually moving its software components into the cloud, to create an all new "platform-as-a-service" offering. – Progress Software buys a new front end for its PaaS play You see this a lot: companies help "SaaSify" applications. Progress more than likely had a pretty broad, long standing base of companies using it's various middleware chunks.

“Our ISV customers have said, we want to be able to compete in the cloud,” explains CEO Philip Pead. So Progress also announced that it would be gradually moving its software components into the cloud, to create an all new "platform-as-a-service" offering. – Progress Software buys a new front end for its PaaS play You see this a lot: companies help "SaaSify" applications. Progress more than likely had a pretty broad, long standing base of companies using it's various middleware chunks.

I can’t really concentrate on reading unless I have a pen in my hand. I love marginalia. I love used books and getting a glimpse of some stranger’s relationship to a book that is now in my life. I underline, star, box, vent, exclaim. I like rereading my books and seeing coffee stains or chocolaty fingerprints I left behind the last time I read them. --The Joys of Marginalia

I can’t really concentrate on reading unless I have a pen in my hand. I love marginalia. I love used books and getting a glimpse of some stranger’s relationship to a book that is now in my life. I underline, star, box, vent, exclaim. I like rereading my books and seeing coffee stains or chocolaty fingerprints I left behind the last time I read them. --The Joys of Marginalia

Looks like that $600m AWS contract with the CIA is real, if not closed. Also of note: Amazon is bidding for building a private cloud - I think...? - more or less. More: Amazon confirms CIA spook cloud contract

Looks like that $600m AWS contract with the CIA is real, if not closed. Also of note: Amazon is bidding for building a private cloud - I think...? - more or less. More: Amazon confirms CIA spook cloud contract