Industry Update: Microsoft's Sidekick/Danger Failure was NOT a Cloud Failure

Over the weekend, Microsoft and T-Mobile acknowledged that the server failure earlier in the week would likely result in the total loss of user data.

While some in the "tech media and blog-o-sphere" tout this as a failure of the cloud computing model, the reality is somewhat different.

Read my post at Internet Evolution and learn more why not all hosted services are cloud-based and why it is important to know the difference.

-- Allen

Google Features Horizon in Case Study

Today's Google's Enterprise Blog features Horizon Info Services, one of our customers, and the web developer that brought us together.

Access Fitness Management Systems provides consulting and management services to health clubs, as well as being the owner and operator of the Worcester Fitness and Plymouth Fitness clubs here in the Boston area.

Horizon was introduced to the team at Access Fitness Management Systems by Cold Spring Design.

Read the full story Here.

Cisco Steps into Cloud -- sort of -- With Email Security Product

Cisco, leveraging its Ironport appliances, has announce email security capabilities that can sit in-house, in a Cisco-managed environment, or both.

As reported by NetworkWorld, Cisco will provision dedicated or virtualized systems for each customer.

In other words, this is not a cloud-based service. Cisco offering a traditional, managed hosted service.