I had a great time at VMworld 2011 Las Vegas this year. As I predicted in my last blog post, I met with loads of amazing people – too many to list out here, let alone in 140 on Twitter!…
Tag: NIST
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).…
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…
In Cloud, ITIL, and SOE – Heterogeneity is the New Standard
I read recently a good blog post from Thomas Bittman (@tombitt) of Gartner Group, about how sometimes close enough is good enough. Talking specifically about private cloud, he talked about how an ‘imperfect’ cloud deployment – one that does not…
Virtualization is not Cloud … but Cloud needs Virtualization
Surfing  a couple of blogs today, jumping from another analyst commenting that virtualization is not cloud (a fair, if unexplored, post), I came across William Vambenepe’s post from September on the confusion between virtualization and Cloud Computing. As he did…
What is Wrong With the NIST Definition of Cloud Computing?
I am getting so sick of the continual bickering over definitions of cloud computing. Even more frustrating is the hype from all the vested interests – vendors and analysts, mostly – trying to define cloud computing in ways that they…