Posts Tagged ‘cloud computing’

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…

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…

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…

In my Cloud Expo presentation a couple of months ago, I went through a progression of infrastructure provisioning systems over the past decade. I noted that while we have certainly accomplished a lot over that time period, business-unit (BU) users are increasingly discovering that they don't want to provision and access resources at the infrastructure…

Old and busted: Cloud management and automation New hotness: Enterprise cloud governance Lately, cloud governance is getting some visibility. A couple days ago, James Urquhart wrote "Regulation, automation, and cloud computing" for CNET. I gave my thoughts on James's points yesterday. Also, yesterday, Phil Wainewright wrote "Time to think about cloud governance" for ZDNet, graciously mentioning…

Back at Cloud Expo in June, I had the chance to sit down with Jeremy Geelan from SYS-CON for a short interview. If you'd like to understand ServiceMesh and the Agility Platform in a bit more detail, this is a great way to cover a lot of ground in 6 minutes and 45 seconds.

Cloud is intimidating. If you're a Global 2000 IT department just starting your journey toward the cloud, you'll find yourself faced with a lot of opinions about what you should do. Vendors, press, analysts, and consultants are happy to weigh-in. Most of what you'll hear is theory. In contrast, ServiceMesh is actively working with Global…

Can you "do cloud" if you aren't agile yourself? Many large vendors seem to think so, but customers are increasingly skeptical. At a recent 451 Group event, Bank of America Merrill Lynch architect Rupert Brown said… ...he thought that lack of agility was a big problem, and that this was the result of the companies…