The illustrious Brandon Butler of Network World recently took up the debate about cloudwashing, and what exactly makes up a ‘real’ private cloud. While James Staten of Forrester take a reasonably strict line with cloudwashing I tend to be a…
Private Cloud Roundtable: Issues and Challenges
On February 19th, I was invited to join a great Google+ Hangout roundtable to talk about private cloud issues and challenges, with some really smart experts, including: Kurt Milne, Director of CloudOps Marketing, VMware (my ‘Visible Ops – Private Cloud‘…
CloudViews Unplugged: February 2013
Andi Mann and George Watt of CA Technologies discuss cloud security, rogue cloud, swarm-based computing, video production in the cloud & more! Read the show notes on Smart Enterprise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnzNI1C357k
CloudViews Unplugged: January 2013
In the latest episode of CloudViews Unplugged, George Watt and I discuss the Christmas Eve AWS outage, cloud computing standards, Google awarding 6 science projects with up to one billion core-computing hours and Netflix open-sources Janitor Monkey. You can read…
Is It Time to Stop Making Excuses for Cloud Outages? (BizTechMagazine)
Ricky Ribeiro (@ricktagious) of BizTech Magazine (@BizTechMagazine) has penned a few thoughtful comments on my latest blog, Time To Stop Forgiving Cloud Providers for Repeated Failures: Some cloud pundits say, “Hey, no technology is up all the time. Deal…
Time To Stop Forgiving Cloud Providers for Repeated Failures
For a long time now, cloud pundits – service providers, boosters, analysts, vendors, and other mostly vested interests – have stood behind a curtain of “downtime happens, design for failure” when assessing cloud outages. It seems that with every new…