Bohemian Bankruptcy
P.S. Ah, that FTC disclosure.. I did some business with the Queen.. way back. CloudAve is exclusively sponsored by

T-Shirt Friday #19 – Search Engine College
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with a great t-shirt is a prime candidate to have a great product also. Click here to see the series. If you’d like your t-shirt reviewed, flick me an email to arrange things. The judges decision is, of course, final and ve

Is Virtualization Necessary For Cloud Computing? - Revisited
Image via Wikipedia As more and more people start taking Cloud Computing seriously, this question is bound to come up again and again. Part of the reason is lack of clarity on the subjects for new comers and a big part of the confusion is due to the marketing messages coming from both virtualization vendors and cloud compu

Thanksgiving huh?
So it’s Thanksgiving. And it makes perfect sense that the only regular CloudAve writer who ISN’T based in the US should get to have a holiday as well… even if he’s actually going to be at work today (Thanksgiving isn’t a New Zealand holiday although, as anyone who has visited here will attest to, we sure have lots to be thankful for in our country). So ther you go – no mention of cloud computing, PaaS offerings, SaaS solutions, integrations, VC funding, pricing models or any of the other minutiae that normally graces these pages. Rather a thank you to you all… Thanks to

Update on the Enterprise Irregulars
(Editor's note: I often refer to bloggers / analyts as fellow Enterprise Irregulars, and in fact am editing the group blog by the same name, but have never provided an explanation here. Therefore I'm glad that Michael Krigsman, CEO of Asuret and author of the popular IT Project Failures blog @ ZDNet agreed to re-publish the following guest post, originally written for ZDNet.) Long known as a diverse group of top-notch thou