Greg O'Connor

Machine to Container (M2C) Teleports Existing Enterprise Apps to the Cloud It's been a busy time for tech's ongoing infatuation with containers. Amazon just announced EC2 Container Registry to simply container management. The new Azure container service taps into Microsoft's partnership with Docker and Mesosphere. You know when there's a standard for containers on the table there's money on the table, too. Everyone is talking containers because they reduce a ton of development-related challenges and make it much easier to move across  production and testing environments and clouds. Containers are the technology that, many believe, deliver on the long-promised portability in the cloud to avoid vendor lock-in, and put developers, system administrators and their enterprises in the driver's seat. Getting up to speed about containers is not easy, but the good news is, the... (more)

In the Cloud the App Is Free, But That Bucket of Nuts Will Cost You

This week my kids and a bucket of nuts acted out a good allegory for enterprise IT and user cloud provisioning - a cautionary tale. It started with a call from our bank letting us know that our credit card was under suspicion of fraud. Apparently, $134.26 worth of iTunes store activity had been charged to our account in the past 24 hours. The bank had correctly guessed that these purchases were news to us, with ‘us' being the adults in the house. And, if not news to each one of the five kids we call ‘ours,' it was also nothing any of them felt like claiming. One family meeting d... (more)

appzero announces availability of zapp cloud migrator

The fastest and most flexible way to move server applications to any cloud, appzero took a market-setting step forward today with the release of zapp cloud migration. This technology extracts Windows server applications from production environments and packages them for movement to any cloud, without re-engineering, change, or lock-in. Applications packaged by zapp can be copied and run on any cloud or data center server with the ease of an enterprise app store. This capability is well suited to hybrid/federated cloud scenarios in which enterprise workloads are moved on premise ... (more)

Life in a Startup: Getting Above the Noise

Update: When I wrote this post three weeks ago, Appzero had just been selected as one of the 25 Hot Cloud Startups by Startup 50, published by Jeff Vance. The list was published on February 9, 2013 as a prelude to his upcoming story "10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch" for CIO.com.  Among several factors determining who made the final cut, including viability of product, competitive advantages and management team's pedigree, there was a voting process.  Well, it looks like we did pretty well in the vote, because we made the top 10 list out this week on CIO.com.  In fact, in the artic... (more)

AppZero Offers One Step Migration from WS2003 to WS2012

AppZero, the fastest and most flexible way to move server applications from the datacenter to the cloud, has released V5.3 enabling users to  "up-level the OS" of  their existing server applications to WS2012.  The software is now available and will be demonstrated next week at CA World (Pedestal 344A). AppZero CEO Greg O'Connor is speaking at the AppLogic User Conference with Radix Technologies CEO, David Corriveau, at CA World on Tuesday, April 23 at 2:30 pm, in the Lagoon TD Room.  They will showcase moving applications with AppZero to Radix Technologies' RadixCloud, powered by... (more)