In the aftermath of the recent Amazon EC2 outage, I spoke with Chris Preimesberger at eWeek about what this means to the perceptions of cloud computing, and whether or not it really mattered: “The first thing to understand [about this…
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Launching my first book – Visible Ops Private Cloud
Today is a very exciting day for me. After many months of blood, sweat, and tears, today we are finally launching a brand new book that I co-wrote (alongside a couple of amazing people – Kurt Milne and Jeanne Morain),…
Private cloud not necessary for enterprises, analyst says
In a recent article on IT World Canada, Selena Mann (no relation) talks about the need for private and public cloud, and whether enterprises really need a private cloud. She also highlights the advice in my new book, ‘Visible Ops…
New Cloud Reference Architecture From NIST
So, here is something interesting I discovered today, courtesy of a tweet from Christian Reilly (@ReillyUSA) – the US federal agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), today released Version 1 of their Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (PDF).…
CIOZone.com Virtualization Video Discussion – Moving Past Virtual Stall
At VMworld 2010, I had the great pleasure to record a video interview with Roger Green, Executive Editor at CIOZone.com. We chatted for about 20 minutes in total (in 2 parts) about virtualization, the issues of virtual stall (including both…
Risk and Reward in the Cloud
Another day, another public cloud failure. Sometime on Friday December 10, 2010, claims content delivery network (CDN) provider SimpleCDN, two of its major upstream infrastructure providers, SoftLayer and Hosting Services, summarily terminated service for much of SimpleCDN’s infrastructure in Dallas,…
Public Cloud Computing is NOT For Everyone
Without pointing any fingers, there seems to be a persistent refrain from some public cloud computing proponents that says, ‘If you are running your own IT, then you are doing it wrong’. This attitude fails to account for the magnitude…
How Do You Measure ‘Value’ in IT Innovation?
I recently met with a number of CIOs from large enterprises and discussed, among many other things, what the notion of ‘value’ really means to the modern CIO. As a marketer, I was very interested to talk about this topic, …
The Cost of Innovation in Virtualization and Cloud?
I was pointed the other day to a chart on the Business Insider ‘Chart of the Day’ (@chartoftheday) showing the R&D expenditures for a handful of tech companies, evidence of Apple’s supposedly superior ‘innovation’ compared to four apparently randomly chosen…
“Software Mainframe” – a Poor Analogy for Virtualization
IT loves analogies. Seriously, will the computer-as-a-car analogy ever die (please)? It has been over 10 years since we first heard jokes about if Microsoft built cars: At a computer expo (COMDEX) Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with…
Cloud Computing in the Public Sector
If there was still any doubt about the real world use cases for cloud computing, the US Federal Government last week published a 38-page report entitled “State of Public Sector Cloud Computing†(link to PDF at CIO.gov). Attributed to the…