Whew, I survived the Holiday Season. I know some companies had some servers melt down in the process of serving their eComm sites...they just DIDN'T plan ahead! They DIDN'T scale dynamically.

As I unwrapped my new arsenal of explosives and weaponry, I thought about those poor soles who STILL have their own data centers...wonder if they are working away there instead of drinking champagne and celebrating.

Where is my weapons arsenal when I need it?

Year-end budgets and forecasting are hitting us all HARD now. Save yourself the pain and blow away your CapEx budget by moving your IT infrastructure to the Cloud! Hardware? We don't need no stinkin' hardware!

As I said before, put it all where it belongs, in the Cloud!

--Dr. GoGrid

Ok, you server-hugging geeks. Has the smell of gun powder cleared from your nose? Still not convinced that the "Cloud" is the way to go? Bullets pass through it, remember?

Now your ears will be ringing with this one! And YES, your servers will blow up on you!

The next Dr. GoGrid prescription for Cloud Computing is LIVE now for your viewing pleasure:

Check it out!

Be sure to send it to all those bare-metal, server-hugging geeks you know. It's a "blast!"

—Dr. GoGrid