Cloudscape

Zoho One: The unSalesforce grows up

06.10.2020 04:34 PM - By Brian S. Pauls - Comment(s)
Zoho One: The unSalesforce grows up

Executive Summary:

Zoho One is a suite of enterprise-level business applications under a single-subscription model that can help you run your entire organization.


American Marketing Association Hall-of-Famer Al Ries...

Why every CEO should be a dummy about hybrid cloud

10.28.2019 03:27 PM - By Brian S. Pauls - Comment(s)
Why every CEO should be a dummy about hybrid cloud

Executive Summary:
Hybrid clouds (IT resources hosted in one or more public clouds and at least one private cloud) will play an increasingly important role in business operations moving forward. CEOs, presidents, and business owners will benefit greatly from understanding the pros and cons of this ne...

Preaching AWS in Plato’s Cave

12.17.2017 04:06 PM - By Brian S. Pauls - Comment(s)
Preaching AWS in Plato’s Cave

Since coming back from AWS re:Invent a couple of weeks ago, I have felt like the freed prisoner returning to Plato’s Cave.

If you took an intro to philosophy class in college, you may recall the Analogy of the Cave, from the Republic.

In this philosophical metaphor, a group of people have lived their ...

All I Want for Christmas Is a Homemade Echo

01.07.2017 04:15 PM - By Brian S. Pauls - Comment(s)
All I Want for Christmas Is a Homemade Echo

If you ever choose to go to AWS re:Invent, I have two pieces of advice:

Sign up early for the sessions and workshops you want to attend.
Get comfortable with the fact that you won’t be able to do everything on your wishlist.

If you want to enjoy the conference in peace-of-mind, Item #2 is very importan...

Everything you think you know about AWS is wrong

12.10.2016 04:01 PM - By Brian S. Pauls - Comment(s)
Everything you think you know about AWS is wrong

If you are like most people, you probably thought something like this the first time you encountered Amazon Web Services (AWS):

“Wow. A completely virtualized data center in the Cloud? How cool is that?”

And then, you may have crunched the numbers, compared them to the cost of your on-premise servers ...