Bill Roth

In a recent LogLogic survey, 60% of respondents expressed some reservations about moving to cloud computing technology. 34% of respondents said that cloud was not strategic for their companies, while another 26% said that they were concerned about the risks relating to the technology, and that security was the number one concern. Respondents cited security, control and transparency as the main drawbacks to cloud computing. According to one IT security manager interviewed, security requirements are “crucial” to adoption and use of cloud computing. “A significant pitfall to cloud computing is the lack of control. It creates a massive security risk.” “While the cloud holds many benefits for the enterprise, we’re not surprised to see that financial services firms are hesitant to adopt cloud computing,” said LogLogic CEO Guy Churchward. “There are still many lingering ... (more)

CA's O'Malley: 3Tera Buy Is Foundational

CA Session at Cloud Expo Computer Associates announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to buy Virtual Data Center provider 3Tera.  Chris O'Malley, EVP, Cloud Products for Computer Associates announced the acquisition at an investors conference in San Francisco today. “CIOs can use cloud computing to build and manage a new type of IT ‘supply chain’ across today’s virtualized internal and external technology infrastructure,” said O’Malley.. “3Tera technology is a powerful addition to the total solution CA provides for optimizing these high-value supply chains—from the m... (more)

The Theory of Innovation

We know from the theory of relativity that the passage of time is relative to the perceiver. This is true of history as well. Sometimes history moves fast, e.g., during World War II and when communism was crumbling in 1989. Sometimes history moves slowly, as in the Cold War and the period between 1991-2001. The same can be said of innovation. Sometimes a lot of innovation happens all at once as in the boom years of the Web from 1998-2001, and during the early days of Java - 1994-1995. Sometimes the pace of innovation slows to a crawl and other forces, principally economic, take pr... (more)

McNealy at JavaOne: "Somebody Has to Be in Charge of Java, or No One Is."

Scott McNealy, chairman, president and CEO of Sun Microsystems, kicked off the second day of the 2004 Java Conference in what was largely a reshash of Monday's keynote by Jonathan Schwartz, with a few notable exceptions. In front of an 80 foot-wide HDTV-driven screen, McNealy started out with his standard stand-up routine, railing against press and analysts, and his recent appearance in Playboy magazine about CEO pay, written by former US Labor Secretary and Brandeis University Professor Robert Reich. One constant theme of the Sun keynotes this year has been the mantra that all th... (more)

Google Analytics Set Up. Now What?

Once you get Google Analytics set up, the next question someone usually asks is: What do I pay attention to? In my view, the following metrics are useful for a first timer. Consider this a kind of Google Analytics 101. Visitors: Many people still focus on hits, which the number of times a particular file is pulled from a server. But it is more relevant to pay attention to the pages that people who come to your site actually see. Some people also still pay attention to page views. This is also inaccurate, 1000 page views is irrelevant if the same person loads a page 1000 times. You... (more)