Simon Wardley and I had a quick exchange about the sloppily written and factually inaccurate writing of Wired’s Jon Stokes. Simon commented about a November post on Wired CloudLine as follows: @swardley: ”This Wired post on cloud from Nov ’11 – where it isn’t wrong (repeating unfounded myths), it is tediously obvious – bit.ly/wWLbsL” I [...]
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The FBI seized popular upload site Megaupload.com yesterday. They took the site down and now own the servers. I am not an attorney, and I have no opinion on whether or not the MegaUpload guys were breaking laws or encouraging users to violate copyrights through illegal uploading and streaming of movies, recordings, etc. Right or [...]
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I’ve been looking at the PaaS space for some time now. I spent some time with the good folks at CloudBees (naturally), and have had many conversations on CloudFoundry, Azure, and more with vendors, customers and other cloudy folks. Krishnan posted a very good article over on CloudAve, and at one level I fully agree [...]
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The cloud stack market continues to go through waves and gyrations, but increasingly now the future is becoming more clear. As I have been writing about for a while, the number of competitors in the market for “cloud stacks” is totally unsustainable. There are really only four “camps” now in the cloud stack business that [...]
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"I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it alright." The “cloud” term has started to turn like the leaves on the trees outside my Window. It’s yellowing, drying out and about to fall to Earth to be raked up and composted into fertilizer if something isn’t done to stop it. Where [...]
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A Change of Perspective by kuschelirmel You’d think as we head into the waning months of 2011 that there’d be little left to discuss regarding the definition of cloud IT. Well, not quite yet. Having spent a lot of time with clients working on their cloud strategies and planning, I’ve come to learn that the [...]
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CloudFloor (Waltham, MA) is getting close to starting the beta program for CloudControl, their system to tie cloud usage to measurable business metrics. I had an interesting call with co-founder and CTO Imad Mouline last week to learn more about this innovative system. There are a couple of ways to approach the concept of CloudFloor. [...]
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(and HP) Update: HP also announced support for OpenStack on its corporate blog. And the beat goes on… The OpenStack Parade is getting bigger and bigger. As predicted, enterprise vendors are starting to announce efforts to make OpenStack “Enterprise Ready.” Today Dell announced their support for OpenStack through their launch of the “Dell OpenStack [...]
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In the past few months we (at Unisys) have been rolling out a new strategic concept we call the Hybrid Enterprise. Normally I don’t use this forum to talk about Unisys but, as one of the lead authors of this strategy, in this case I’ll make an exception. The starting point for this hybrid enterprise [...]
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TechCrunch reported today that Citrix has acquired Cloud.com for > $200m. This is a great exit for a very talented team at Cloud.com and I’m not surprised at their success. Cloud.com has had great success in the market, especially in the last 12 months. This is both in the service provider space and for internal [...]
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