Had the opportunity to meet and interact w/ Vivek Kundra at the NASA Ames Research Center yesterday. GREAT guy.As everybody knows, very big proponent of cloud computing.
The good news is that he is driving the agenda with a focus on time to solution and costs.
The hard part is going to be to get folks set [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group gave a “SOA Wake” talk at the Burton Group Catalyst 09 show - explaining what she meant by her now-famous blog post ‘SOA Is dead: long live services” As usual, good straight talk from Anne.
Her point with the original post: SOA got sold as a thing in [...]
Watching technology companies figure out their channel strategies is very interesting. Ask anybody who has run a technology company or a division of a large company and they will tell you the ‘how to ’scale’ the sales process’ is one of the hardest things – even harder than technology problems. Why? Because it involves people and [...]
Lots has been written about open source and cloud computing recently. Dion Hincfliffe recently wrote on a Cloud Computing and open source face off. James Urquhart generally does a great job on focusing on the customer. His recently post on Three debates that will benefit cloud computing started out well, talking about smb vs enterprise [...]
Great blog post by John Musser on a recent panel at Interop.
API’s are definitely becoming mainstream. It is certainly mainstream for web companies. So why not SaaS companies ?
SaaS providers serve different customers. As SaaS has become more mainstream (accepted by fortune 2000) customers, the need for API’s has grown – firstly for integration and [...]
Enterprise are starting to adopt cloud computing. The ones that have web centric business models like media companies are either already doing it or are moving towards it rapidly. Financial services companies are moving slower, as compliance/API security issues have to be carefully looked at.
Michael Healey recently wrote “8 questions to ask before going live [...]
Opening up APIs does not mean signing up for creating a developer community or a platform. Many folks are talking about “turning an application into a platform” strategy. How many platforms we do know. It is one thing to access an API and check out the docs on the Web and another thing to become [...]
