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PaaS on Google – more services, more opportunities

Posted by James Valentine on May 28th, 2010

Last week saw a steady stream of big announcements out of Google I/O. Of particular interest are the announcements relating to Platform as a Service: API for Google Latitude: a programmatic way

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Top 10 for 2010

Posted by Carolyn Sanders on December 23rd, 2009

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future" - Niels Bohr, Danish Physicist A few weeks ago we asked Fronde's top thinkers for their predictions for 2010, both in the IT industry and

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The Cloud Computing Continuum

Posted by James Valentine on August 26th, 2009

"Cloud Computing" - it means different things to different people. To help clarify things, I've come up with a "cloud continuum" that better describes the different offerings that are out there.

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Spring in May @ Fronde

Posted by Paul Armstrong on May 25th, 2009

This month Fronde is pleased to announce the partnership of Fronde and SpringSource.  Fronde has a number of partnerships, but that does not mean to say we are free and easy.  We choose our partner

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The Virtual Datacenter has arrived!

Posted by Simon Bodecott on April 29th, 2009

While Cloud Computing and SaaS (Software as a Service) grab the headlines, a quiet revolution has been occurring within the local datacenter - virtual infrastructure.  You can now build "private" clo

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What’s all the Hadoop about MapReduce?

Posted by Paul Armstrong on April 20th, 2009

If you wanted another reason to realise that cloud computing is different, then see Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce. "Amazon Elastic MapReduce automatically spins up a Hadoop implementation of the MapR

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Java arrives on Google App Engine

Posted by David Hay on April 15th, 2009

Google has recently announced that its App Engine can now run Java applications.  This is an exciting announcement for myself and Fronde given I am a Java developer and Google is our partner.  With

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Mobile Communications – and the crisis of “now”

Posted by James Valentine on March 26th, 2009

Clearly we all see a lot of value in mobile technology, and those who have heard me speak will probably have heard me talk about McGuire's law of mobility, namely: "The value of any product or servic

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