Beth Cohen is a cloud strategist for Verizon, helping to develop cutting-edge products for the next generation. Previously, Beth was president of Luth Computer Specialists, an independent consultancy specializing in cloud-focused solutions to help enterprises leverage the efficiencies of cloud architectures and technologies, a senior cloud architect with Cloud Technology Partners, and the director of engineering IT for BBN Corporation, where she was involved with the initial development of the Internet and worked on some of the hottest networking and web technology protocols in their infancy.
As more services shift to the cloud, the reliability, security, and quality of the network become of paramount importance. Beth Cohen examines private networks as a way to solve the problem of notoriously unreliable Internet service.
SaaS and IaaS vendors are looking for solutions to facilitate customer on-boarding, while customers are looking for ways to minimize vendor lock-in. Why have these services been so slow to mature? The functionality is much needed as more workloads are migrating or being built directly in the cloud.
In the past, disaster recovery meant either paying for expensive data replication services to remote data center hot sites or purchasing full sets of redundant hardware. Some companies were willing to pay for that peace of mind, but others went looking for more cost-effective approaches.
PaaS has been called both a revolutionary tool that enables developers to build true cloud applications and a leap of faith. Can PaaS really be leveraged to build new cloud applications quickly and easily, or is it just another expensive software development methodology that developers ignore?
HTML has overstayed its welcome as the web language of choice. Nobody foresaw the need to incorporate graphics, sound, alternate devices, or wireless network connectivity. Is it time to relook at HTML5 as a converged development platform for delivering real-time content to a plugged in audience?
With a lot of press about the coming private cloud revolution, it might seem like a sign that the anticipated widespread enterprise adoption of the private cloud has final arrived. Beth Cohen looks at why companies might not be quite ready to switch from a public to a private cloud.
The public cloud is a well-established place where consumers and enterprises are increasingly more willing to put their mission-critical applications. After a rocky start, there is growing interest by companies in building private clouds to complement their public cloud application portfolio.
