Thursday’s topics…Dell case lingers on, Gmail shines a bad light on the cloud Google outage causes frustration with the Cloud US Patent Office decides to drag Dell’s case back under examination School’s in session for cloud computing

It looks like Google Apps suffered a brief outage this morning. How did we find out? Well, from Valleywag of course. After all, the best place to get the status of key cloud based applications and infrastructure is also the same place where you can find out the latest gossip about the valley. Seems natural, [...]

Another very cloudy news day. Here are today’s top picks: Big news to start off HyperLINKS. Microsoft has announced that it has bought semantic search engine, Powerset Tom Kaneshige of InfoWorld writes about Google’s long road to the enterprise through its Google Apps According to a new Gartner study, email will move to the cloud, [...]

Hyperic headlines today’s news, but as usual Yahoo! is all over everybody else’s news… Michael Vizard writes about the need for change in IT management as cloud computing becomes increasingly commonplace, citing Hyperic as a company that is helping to create this new approach to IT management Get your download finger ready! Mozilla confirmed its [...]

Today’s news is out of this world! OK, maybe only for Sergey Brin… but here you go: Dave Martinjak posted a review of Running Xen, a new book out on how to run a XenSource based virtualized environment. We’ll be helping flesh out that missing chapter on sys mgmt best practices here soon. CNET’s Charles [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately talking to the management team here at Hyperic about the subject of search. Specifically, Google search since its what most of our users tend to find us with. (No disrespect to our good friends at Ask.com whose search engine seems to be less popular with the sysadmin [...]