Ahrens is an expert and frequent speaker on international conferences for service oriented architecture and virtualization. Before co-founding Zimory, he served as a project manager and research scientist at the innovation development entity of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories. Responsible for infrastructure and enterprise IT projects spanning multiple divisions of the Deutsche Telekom group -- Ahrens is an expert on enterprise IT and business processes. Before Deutsche Telekom, he led several business process reengineering projects for major German companies. Ahrens received his degree in computer science and business administration from Technische Universität Berlin.
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 ...Jul. 30, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,379
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.
