I was happy to see an excerpt from my new book, ‘Visible Ops – Private Cloud’ was posted recently on Tech Target’s SearchCloudComputing.com. To master private cloud economics, tune up your spreadsheets and refine the business value proposition of your…
Will Amazon EC2 Outage Negatively Affect Attitudes Toward Cloud? Nah!
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…
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…