http://ahrens.sys-con.com/ Latest News from Maximilian Ahrens en Copyright 2009 Ulitzer.com Ulitzer.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:45:08 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss 360 http://ahrens.sys-con.com/node/1054799 Cloud computing is such a fascinating topic because, to anybody who can get enough distance from the marketing hype, it really represents a significant departure from the way the software and the hardware industry have been operating in the last decades. In fact, cloud computing is to the traditional IT industry what the Internet has been to the music and film industry: an unwelcome and very threatening development dictating completely different business models.<p><a href="http://ahrens.sys-con.com/node/1054799" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:45:00 EDT http://ahrens.sys-con.com/node/1054799 http://ahrens.sys-con.com/node/1054799#feedback http://ahrens.sys-con.com/node/1020656 On Monday, June 29, Rackspace experienced an outage that completely shut down its hosted sites – apparently due to a problem with its Dallas datacenter. Unfortunately, an outage like the Rackspace one will keep another good set of enterprise customers from hopping on the cloud.<p><a href="http://ahrens.sys-con.com/node/1020656" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:00:00 EDT http://ahrens.sys-con.com/node/1020656 http://ahrens.sys-con.com/node/1020656#feedback