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…
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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…
The Cloud Market Is Wide Open for the Taking
Recently I wrote about how public cloud is failing large enterprises. Despite the wild success of public cloud for consumer and SMB use cases, I noted, most research shows that enterprises are investing substantially more in private cloud than public…
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…
CA Technologies Andi Mann speaks to Sky News
I was interviewed by Sky News on cloud and innovation when I was at CeBIT Australia. Check it out!
Why the Public Cloud is a Big Fat Enterprise #Fail
Simultaneously meeting the needs of consumers, while addressing the needs of IT leaders, is exactly how a small With the advent of the consumer driven enterprise, there are now two ways to define the success of a platform. One is…
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…
Survivor: CIO Edition CeBIT Australia
I was thinking about the issues I will present at CeBIT Australia, and thought I would jot some thoughts down. The people at CeBIT thought it was interestign enough to publish in its entirety. How cool is that!? So here…
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