HANA is nothing more than a stopgap measure by a desperate vendor trying to maintain its revenue in the face of an ancient code base that is inherently Cloud-unfriendly.

The first rule of DevOps is don't implement a DevOps team.

Want Cybersecurity? Get Cloud. That’s the perspective of General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command.

Would anybody in your organization click a benign link to a news article, and then provide login credentials?

When you have a data center full of hard drives -- for example if you're running a Cloud -- then bad drives are a daily occurrence.

Dell's Boomi product is a full-fledged Integration-as-a-Service offering, positioned as the point of the spear for the company's Cloud strategy.

Qubole is a Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) service provider. Not hyperbole, Qubole.

The increasingly trusted Twitter service is one more front in the global Cyberwar we're woefully unprepared to defend.

If IBM PureSystems works as well as IBM says it does, it represents some serious enterprise firepower. But is it really a Private Cloud in a box?

So, is Amazon good or evil? You be the judge. Clearly, disrupting markets is in a different category from, say, outsourcing manufacturing to Asian sweatshops, but tell that to the targets of Amazon's disruption.