John Cowan

For folks living in the IT Channel world it was impossible to miss the headline-grabbing news about the big ConnectWise cloud failure late last month.  I have only very limited knowledge of the outage itself from a handful of upset customers and unfortunately the various pundits and reporters that covered the story painted very sketchy details at best.  Having said that, what really matters is that a significant number of IT Service Providers lost access to their mission critical operations application for an extended period.   For the uninitiated, ConnectWise provides an integrated service management, CRM and billing platform for IT service providers.  For the IT Service Providers that use ConnectWise, the business of IT service can’t function without it.  It’s a very ... (more)

RASS, 6fusion Partner to Deliver Apps in the Cloud

Cloud Computing Expo RASS and 6fusion USA, Inc. announced a partnership to co-deliver cloud hosted desktop and server applications on demand.  The joint offering promises to improve existing performance and cost limitations for customers moving away from a traditional on-site application delivery model. RASS features state-of-the-art technology to allow companies of all sizes to serve bus... (more)

Cloud Computing Is the Next Great Land Rush and It Is Happening Now

Cloud Computing is the next great land rush and it is happening now.  All the major technology companies have their offerings.  And it seems like everyone is entering the market – even the hosting companies want in on the land rush. In theory, migration to the Cloud makes business sense; you’re enabling companies to rent computing power that would cost them too much to buy.  I won’t bor... (more)

The Long Tail of Cloud Computing?

My watered down translation of Long Tail theory is simply the notion that the aggregate sum of stuff buyers take in small, infrequent quantities will invariably outstrip the aggregate sum of the most popular counterparts. Research evidence is beginning to corroborate what we saw some three years ago: There is a Long Tail in Cloud Computing. Consider some well accepted research points from... (more)

Enterprise Customer Uses 6fusion Profiler to Drive Cloud Strategy

I’ve been off the radar in recent weeks as things around 6fusion have been busy, but few weeks ago we blogged about the Profiler application we’ve been working on. I’ve just come up for a bit of air on the project but while I was in the thick of things we unearthed an interesting sample of real life, multi-faceted, cloud impact. I thought it was worth sharing and my IT Director friend at... (more)