Interesting article from Dion Hinchcliffe on running your SOA like a Web start up. As with most of Dion’s writing, well worth a read. The difference between SOA and cloud computing/APIs is well understood. Blogged on it recently. The question is how can we apply Web principles to the enterprise computing? Lets start by understanding [...]
EMC’s RSA Security division released a two studies. Few comments:
- 50% of all folks interviewed (enterprises with more than $1B in revenue) are doing cloud computing
- 66% of those do not have a security strategy
- RSA has put together a “Security for Business Innovation” council comprised of 10 security executives chosen by RSA.
Kudos to RSA [...]
Many of you probably read Phil Wainewrights recent blog on “Why Bother with Multi-tenancy?” Good reading. The pros and cons for on-premise and on-demand are well known. no point of stating the obvious. The question on how to make a decision is trickier. Here is my perspective:
Market/Customer:
This is by far the most important perspective. [...]
Interesting Forrester report called “Trends in Cloud Computing” by James Staten dated May 26th, 2009. Worthwhile read. Few noteworthy points:
“Cloud computing” contains the seeds of IT’s next generation – YES. This is real, much like client server and Web computing… in fact probably has benefits of both – cost and revenue.
Cloud’s customers (slide #16) – [...]
The move by enterprises to store data in the cloud is logical… but this won’t happen over night. Moving crucial data to the cloud as the sole archive will most likely be one of the last business operations to move entirely to the could. Why? Trust. Spoken before on enterprise trust issues with the cloud, [...]
TechRepublic wrote a piece on the changing role of the CIO in today’s economic and cloud computing landscape. There’s no question that the role of the CIO changes when a company moves to the cloud, I’d hardly say the role has become undeserving of the C-level. Patrick Gray writes that IT will likely split into [...]
Ariel Silverstone wrote last week on the dangers and opportunity of cloud security ahead. Agree with his take that time to market is one of the biggest drivers for cloud computing. Going from months to weeks in set-up time increases productivity and potential revenue. Silverstone also notes that standards are important – the CSA [...]
Early last month I took part in a cloud panel at the SIIA NetGain Conference in San Francisco. I posted my thoughts here right after, and the video is now up on the NetGain site. Some interesting presentations from a couple of other information cloud companies… the video also gives some background on how Sonoa’s [...]
Had lunch earlier this week with Bob Warfield from a company called Helpstream. Smart guy. He wrote a great piece this week on the 10 things his company no longer has to worry about now that they operate in the cloud.
Highlights include no longer worrying about server power consumption or load balancing. Bob also notes [...]
Have been hearing quite a bit about cloud portability recently. This also came up a recent panel at the SIIA NetGain conference. Here is my take:
- Customers think of information technology as a means to an end.
- When they are making IT related decisions (technology and vendor) they are generally making them for the long [...]
