Daryl Plummer and Frank Kenny from Gartner have been writing about cloud brokering for the past few months. eWeek covered their research and James Urquart blogged about this yesterday.
There is clearly a need for cloud brokering technology and probably a business around cloud brokers. Cloud brokers will be a combination of the support (think Rackspace’s [...]
There is a lot of talk about interoperability between cloud providers. Let me explain the use case. Enterprise A uses a cloud and wants to make sure that they can ’switch’ to another cloud provider. The reasons for switching can be many – costs, better technology fit with new provider etc.
A couple of important considerations [...]
Interesting article in the wsj.com recently. Authors argue that the pace of change is quickening- with compelling examples of entire industries – recorded music business and the newspaper business (and soon network television and book publishing) – that have been rearranged in only a few years.
Lots of parallels to draw with what is happening with [...]
