Eric Norlin
Defrag and the Bazaar
Yesterday’s post left us at the doorstep of “radical value propositions.” So, let’s dig in. For the individual a “radical value proposition” isn’t really an overt thing. Individual’s adopt, like, push, cajole and laugh. They rarely perform cost/benefit analysis on a given solution. That doesn’t mean there aren’t “radical value propositions” that become inflection points [...]
Defrag Back and Forward
Now that I’ve looked at some of the underpinnings of Defrag, I wanted to capture (briefly) my personal big takeaways from last year’s conference. 1. Two sides of the same coin: The overwhelming meta-theme from Defrag 2009 was that social media and enterprise 2.0 are two sides of the same coin (call it “social business”). [...]
Defrag and Data
In my last post, I wrote: Bottom-line: There’s an exponential increase in the amount and velocity of data that we’re dealing with — as individuals, groups and organizations. And most of the technologies we’re implementing are actually increasing that amount and velocity of data. Defrag is about that. It’s about how we derive useable information [...]
Defrag: A Beginning
To “defrag” (or defragment) is to move disparate bits closer together, so as to create a more contiguous grouping of data. In computer terms, it leads to more efficiency and a cleaner file system. At its core, it’s all about data (okay, technically, 1’s and 0’s – but call it data). The first time I [...]
Get in on the Ground Floor
At some point in my life, I got interested in markets. Really interested. I started out interested in public markets, and I’ve grown into my interest in more private markets. But, overall, I love markets — the trades, the liquidity, the exotic instruments — hell, I used to LOVE doing some pretty funky options trades [...]
The Cloud Top 3’s
Rackspace’s earnings report prompted a Twitter exchange between myself and Michael DeSilver (of LTech) that seemed interesting enough to report here. Rackspace reported year over year growth in their cloud business of 77%, and sequential growth of 13% — all on $19 million in revenue (for the cloud biz). This prompted Mike and I to [...]
Understanding the Open Graph Protocol
David Recordon (of Facebook) sent over his session title this morning. Now, I think we all kind of figured that David would be addressing Facebook’s Open Graph stuff, but it’s nice to get “official confirmation” from him on that front. I commented on Dave Linthicum’s podcast this week that I was a bit unsure of [...]
The 7 Stages of Tech Industry Development
Anyone that’s been reading my blog posts here or over on Defrag has probably figured out that I’m a big fan of recurring cycles in history, industries, societies, etc. It’s always especially interesting to watch it play out in the tech world. Yesterday’s acquisition of Cast Iron Systems by IBM seems like an indicator of [...]
Rounding the Bend – Free Tix to GlueCon
It seems appropriate to reference horse racing the Monday morning after the derby. Yes, we are “rounding the bend” — 23 days until Gluecon. I feel like I’ve droned on endlessly about how great it’s going to be (I probably have), so let me just take a different approach by highlighting some things I’m looking [...]
Moving Between Layers
I was just reading this piece on the “three layers” of the Cloud by David Linthicum — incidentally, David will be keynoting Gluecon. I think what David proposes is a useful framework (useful because it’s not overly nuanced) for thinking about the Cloud. Briefly: Layer 1: The Basics of Infrastructure as characterized by storage, middleware [...]
AuthN, AuthZ and Gluecon
As I’ve mentioned many times in the past, I’m not an engineer. Still, along the way, even the non-engineers like me pick up some tidbits of knowledge. One of the things I learned in my years spent in identity management (”IdM”) is the difference between Authentication (”AuthN”) and Authorization (”AuthZ”). And, as it turns out, [...]
Agility, black swans and the Cloud
Alright, I admit it! This whole public-private-hybrid cloud debate the clouderati love to go back and forth about just — *yawn* — never really — *yawn* — did much for me. Only you crazy engineering types could get so worked up over the purity of a definition. Same thing for the whole “capex/opex” cloud benefit [...]
The Cloud through an App Lens
It’s clear that whatever success the iPad has (and I’m on record as saying I think it will be huge), that success is enabled by “the cloud.” There is no future for a device like the iPad were it not for the ability of people to store, access, download and upload to “the cloud.” Furthermore, [...]
Why The iPad Is Important
Alright, I’ve read the reviews. I’ve the read Cory’s piece about open-ness and closed platforms (and I agree, open is better). I’ve read from the nit-picking details to the high level geekery, and I’m here to say, the iPad is an important device. Of course, some have already heralded it as the inflection point in [...]
The Clouds Disappear
I’ve blogged in the past about the “value” being in the “glue” when it comes to the “cloud.” I had a conversation earlier this week about the term “cloud,” and it made me want to clarify my thinking/writing on this a bit. To be fair, I’m not sure my thoughts are fully formed on this [...]
