Category: In The Media

Are IT leaders just too busy for innovation? | ZDNet

I was a panelist and co-host of a fantastic broadcast from the HBO studios in New York recently. With smart and experienced colleagues from Gartner,  Deloitte,  Global Partners, and Comcast, we talked about consumerization, desktop virtualization,  innovation, and a lot…

Who’s Who in Cloud, July 13, 2012 | Gathering Clouds

Wow, I have been name-checked in Gathering Clouds in their “Who’s Who in Cloud“. Wow. And check the other names in the list – that is a huge compliment! Barb Darrow: A timely dive into what Amazon’s recent outages really…

CloudViews Unplugged: July 2012

In the July episode of CloudViews Unplugged, George Watt and I discuss two recent cloud surveys, rogue IT, how Europe is lagging behind the US in cloud adoption, the national Kidney Registry’s move to cloud, plus Google Maps Coordinate, Oracle…

New cloud realities emerge | ITWeb

Ahead of my coming trip to South Africa, I was interviewed for the excellent ITWeb on the new realities of  cloud computing. Check it out: Cloud computing has delivered on its promises – and then some. But for the early…

CloudViews Unplugged: June 2012

In this episode of CloudViews Unplugged, Andi Mann and George Watt discuss government savings from cloud, cloud bill shock, solar cloud, Google Chrome, Facebook, Siri and more! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyE6pYFpbw0 To read the show notes for this episode and for more cloud…

Is the cloud really ready for prime time?

I was very privileged to be interviewed by Brandon Butler over at NetworkWorld recently – and he kindly included some of my quotes in a great article on cloud,”Is the cloud really ready for prime time?”. With a bunch of…

CloudViews Unplugged: May 2012

In this episode of CloudViews Unplugged, Andi Mann and George Watt discuss open vs. proprietary cloud, evaluating the clouds environmental impact, the benefits of cloud for the Australian economy, U.S. Army’s cloud-in-a-box, image sharing via the cloud for the healthcare…

CloudViews Unplugged: April 2012

I have started a new video series with George Watt, called “CloudViews Unplugged”, talking about cloud computing! We try to keep it short and snappy, and it is pretty good fun. It’s just about 10 minutes each episode (sometimes we might go a little over – sorry!). We cover cloud news, look at what is new and cool, and go back and forth on the hot topics in cloud computing.

In the first episode, of CloudViews Unplugged, we discuss the U.S. Patriot Act, rogue IT, cloud’s impact on IT jobs, Doro’s mobile apps, CloudCode, and more!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9TgqhZ_aZ4

11 Tips for Successful Cloud Computing Adoption

Today I was published in one of the top cloud computing journals. In fact, it is the Cloud Computing Journal, part of the SYS-CON stable and the same organization that runs the excellent Cloud Expo events. The article is called…