Michael Sheehan

Michael Sheehan's Blog Adopting Cloud Computing as a primary technology strategy will be one of the main catalysts for technology-savvy business to not only stay in business, but also be successful in the long run. If the Global Recession truly hits as it seems that it will, items that directly and positively impact the bottom line of companies will naturally rise to the top. This week, Gartner, Inc released their list of the top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009. This information stems from research performed within the Technology sector and factors in their client and research feedback. This list, released at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo, is considered to be potentially “disruptive to your environment or market in some way,” says Gartner analyst David Cearley. While I sometimes find some of Gartner’s commentary on trends in technology a bit conservative and missin... (more)

Objectivity/DB Now Available on GoGrid

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer The following press release went out today surrounding the new technology partnership between GoGrid and Objectivity, Inc. Objectivity provides flexible, scalable high performance, distributed persistent object and database management solutions. Objectivity/DB, which now runs on GoGrid, is termed the “cloud-ready database” in that it is a fully distributed and federated database platform with benefits including: Distributed Architecture Single Logical View Real-time performance Automatic data replication Handling Data Complexity Virtualization Security ... (more)

Understanding "Clouded" Terms of Cloud Computing

Michael Sheehan's "GoGrid" Blog There seems to be a lot of debate around different types of Computing Terms being used to describe server and hosting solutions. In fact, in the past, the blogosphere seemed to throw around terms like Grid, Cloud, Utility, Distributed and Cluster computing almost interchangeably. But, as of this revision, one term is rising to the top: Cloud Computing. (See recent trend analysis here.) The definitions vary from source to source, author to author. While I cannot (and will not) attempt to articulate the end-all definition, I can write about how I v... (more)

Cloud Computing Expo: Introducing the Cloud Pyramid

This insightful post by Thorsten von Eicken recently got me thinking. The term “Cloud Computing” is much too vague. People want and need “slots” or “segments” where they can group things. This is how the mind operates through categorization and ordering. So, to possibly help with this, I would like to propose a “Cloud Pyramid” to help differentiate the various Cloud offerings out there. There are other ways to display this hierarchy, however I elected to show it as a pyramid. For example, if one were to weight the graphic by the number of providers within each segment, the pyra... (more)

GoGrid & GigaSpaces Join Forces

GigaSpaces and GoGrid have been strategic partners for quite a while. This week, we jointly announced a new technology partnership aimed at offering Java and .NET as a PaaS solution. To further explain our combined solution, there is a webinar slotted for October 14th where Guy Nirpaz (EVP of R&D at GigaSpaces) and Paul Lancaster (Business Development Manager at GoGrid). The webinar will specifically address integration between GigaSpaces XAP and GoGrid. Webinar Date: October 14, 2009 Time: 9:00AM PDT Registration: Online The following press release was sent out today which goes... (more)