Tim Negris

When the US Government came for file sharing domains, I remained silent; I was not a file sharer. When they shut down Torrent Finder, I remained silent; I was not a Bit Torrent user. When they pressured Amazon to shut down WikiLeaks, I did not speak out; I was not a leaker. When they passed the COICA bill, I remained silent; I wasn't an infringer or counterfeiter. When they came for my domain, there was no one left to speak out. ... (more)

Tiny Company Solves Giant Problems in Cloud-Based Document Management

Multi-party file sharing and document management is a useful and increasingly popular business application in the public cloud domain.  Such solutions include vertical enterprise solutions like M&A "deal rooms" from Intralinks and Brainloop, general purpose "office" applications suites from Zoho and Google, collaboration/communications platforms from Central Desktop and Akiva, web-based document management systems from KnowledgeTree and Confidela, and file utilities from Box.net and SugarSync. Never Use an Application to Do Middleware's Job Regardless of their purpose or features... (more)

SMB Cloud Is A Hacker's Paradise

Cheaper, Easier, Scarier - Small and medium-sized businesses are increasingly turning to cloud computing as an easier, cheaper alternative to in-house IT or shared and dedicated server hosting solutions. And, they are finding social media to be an accessible, inexpensive way to build brands, distribute content, and assist customers. Correspondingly, cloud services and social networking providers are increasingly targeting the SMB segment for revenue they can't get from consumers and margins they can't get from large businesses. Meanwhile, abetted by user ignorance, provider apa... (more)

Brocade Wants to Kill Your Cloud Buzz

Providing a remarkable contrast to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's exuberant "I got your big honkin' cloud right here" demonstration of his new vertically-integrated Exalogic Elastic Cloud server at OpenWorld, Brocade CMO John McHugh, speaking  at the NetEvents 2010 EMEA Press Summit in Istanbul, took a different, decidedly downbeat view of cloud computing, calling it "overhyped" and predicting that it "is going to get adopted and embraced much more slowly than people believe." In his talk, which was subtitles, an industry visionary seeks gold amongst the chaos of change, McHugh, rat... (more)

Public Cloud Computing: Enabling the Elastic Enterprise

Sometimes the results of a Google search can be most enlightening for what they don't show.  For instance, I was wondering about the differences between private and public cloud computing in terms the strategic business benefits of each, so I did a Google search that looked like this: As you can see, that search only returned 24 results, and ten of those were duplicates!   Not only is 14 a surprisingly tiny number, but about half of those were cases where the two phrases happened to occur on the same page with no semantic relationship between them, and the remainder all expressed... (more)