Archive for Dave Roberts

UPDATE Jan 26, 2012: Added governance to the list of forces driving private clouds. This year, I was asked to chair the Private Clouds track at Cloud Connect. Over the past couple weeks, I have been working to nail down all the last little details and get everything headed in the right direction before the event…

Today seems like OASIS TOSCA day in my world. First thing this morning, Sam Johnston (@samj) Tweeted somesuspicion towards TOSCA. Ben Kepes (@benkepes) also blogged his thoughts about TOSCA. I sent Sam a quick "+1" replythis morning (@sandhillstrat), but I wanted to weight in with my thoughts in blog form as well. Fundamentally, TOSCA is trying to address a very large, complex problem. The…

As ServiceMesh works with companies implementing cloud computing projects, we often get asked the question of how the technology will be able to keep up with the shifting landscape of IT governance requirements. Customers working in highly regulated industries are often worried about adapting to future legal changes. For others in less regulated industries, it's…

We're heading into the home stretch for 2011, about ready to hang the new 2012 calendar. Are you and your cloud strategy ready for the new year? Do you have a well-thought-through strategic plan for what you are trying to achieve? Are you sure that your cloud strategy is going to deliver real business value…

My morning coffee reading today was Josh Stephens's "Top five virtualization problems: Building a private cloud" over at TechTarget SearchNetworking. I was all set to get some good advice on private clouds. Unfortunately, I stumbled on another Cloud Myth. The article starts off well enough, but runs aground when it gets to what should be…

Previously, I discussed the myth that "their stuff is more risky than our stuff." A couple weeks ago, I saw this article in eWeek, "Cloud Security Remains Top Business Worry." I felt that it warranted a post as another cloud myth, basically a corollary to "their stuff is more risky than our stuff." The eWeek…

After my previous posts on PaaS, JP Morgenthal (Twitter: @jpmorgenthal) and I have had some offline conversations. The discussion resulted in JP putting together the following blog post. He has graciously allowed me to post it here at ServiceMesh.com. It should be noted that the issues JP identifies below are largely restricted to public PaaS. Private…

This morning's coffee reading was Harry Labana's article for CIO Central, posted at Forbes.com, titled "Does IT Still Matter?" Harry asks a great question and then proceeds to develop a great answer. I encourage you to read it all to gain the benefit of his wisdom. Harry starts the article this way: The time has…

I hear it again and again: "My data resides in the cloud." "I got rid of my servers and I'm using the cloud to do all my computing." "If we start using the cloud, will I have to build another data center?" A couple years ago, I started keeping an eye out for the cloud, but…

My morning coffee read today was Paul Venezia's "The cloud hazard no one talks about," at InfoWorld (hat tip to David Linthicum's Twitter feed: @DavidLinthicum). Paul's article makes the case that while "the cloud" (whatever that is) is great for getting rid of capital equipment, it ends up spreading around all your data, which means…