Notes from the Consultant’s Jungle

The past two years have brought an explosion of activity in the area of data center facilities.  On the provider side, we can talk about services we expect from the Cloud.  The proliferation of XaaS, exponential growth of content for Web 2.0 services, and the interest in Cloud-based services by the Enterprise drives demand for [...]

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To many, the concept of Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and what-have-you as a Service (XaaS) is well understood.  The emergence of strong cloud based services facilitates a true paradigm shift in modern computing.  I’ve found though, that there remains a misunderstanding in some circles about exactly what this new [...]

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