August 2, 2011
Apple iCloud developer beta launches, pricing revealed
Talkin’ Cloud
Matthew Weinberger reports on the hot cloud offering.
“Even as a layman user, I was able to access the iCloud.com page and register my account with the service. But without a legitimate developer account, I can only really see the front page. I’m hearing through the grapevine, though, that it works exactly as advertised for developers who’ve installed the iOS 5 beta on their mobile devices.”
Tablets will overtake consumer PCs, says Fujitsu CTO
The Register
Chris Mellor reports on the CTO’s vision.
“The CTO says that it is possible Amazon could bring out a tablet costing just $299 and that consumers could buy two of them for the price of a desktop. They would no longer need to go a special room in the house where the desktop PC is located, with tablets just left lying around and fetched whenever you needed to use one.”
Time to think about cloud governance
ZDNet
Phil Wainewright looks at the consequences of poor cloud governance.
“Very few enterprises that are adopting cloud applications and infrastructure are giving enough thought to governance. The result is a mish-mash of SaaS silos and cloud islands, with very little attention paid to data consistency and integration, and even less to policy management and oversight.”
