A reason behind this is probably the rising popularity and increasing acceptance of cloud computing in the past year, both for hosted infrastructure services like the ones AWS offers and for SaaS (software-as-a-service) products like Google's Apps ...

I’m looking forward to the RSA conference this year; I am going to get to discuss Virtualization and Cloud Computing security a lot. One of the events I’m really looking forward to is a panel discussion at the Jericho Forum’s event (Wednesday the 22nd, starting at 3pm) with some really good friends of mine and members of the Forum. We’re going to be discussing Jericho’s Cloud Cube Model:

Should the enterprise adopt public clouds as promoted by Salesforce and other SaaS/IaaS promoters, or are internal/private clouds the way to go? The fact that so many people are still asking either/or questions like that marks how little understanding

Google launched a new version of its App Engine application-hosting service that adds multiple capabilities, including an early look at support for the Java programming language.

Google's new Secure Data Connector could result in a plethora of tie-ups between its productivity software and a range of enterprise applications and data sources.

This will be a quickie.   This is such a juicy topic and really merits a ton more than just a mention, but unfortunately, I’m out of time. Google’s latest updates to the Google App Engine Platform has all sorts of interesting  functionality:

As anticipated, Java support on Google App Engine has been announced. To date, GAE has supported only the Python programming language. In keeping with the “phenomenal cosmic power, itty bitty living space” sandboxing that’s become common to cloud execution environments, GAE/Java has all the restrictions of GAE/Python. However, the already containerized nature of Java applications means that the restrictions probably won’t feel as significant to developers. Many Python libraries and frameworks are not “pure Python”; they include C extensions for speed.

Google has announced a new version of its Google App Engine platform including preliminary support for Java applications with the inclusion of an industry standard J2EE server in the cloud.

Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos previously voiced the opinion that the global recession will drive enterprises to give a more thorough look at cloud computing and virtualization as a solution to their efficiency needs. The economic doldrums, he suggested, ...

Pop quiz: What’s the worst thing that could happen in the cloud? Microsoft certainly knows the answer. Especially after Azure, the company’s foray into cloud computing services, melted down this past weekend. It gets better — this massive outage comes ...