New Meme: Business Users Are The IT
For the past two years, I have been advocating PaaS as the future of cloud services and how developers are the face of the IT in the PaaS era. I have long argued that as PaaS takes over the IT infrastructure in the organizations, we will see a shift in who holds the key to [...]
A Conversation on Cloud Computing, PaaS, Distributed Systems & Marketing Message Cleanups…
This video is a discussion between Ben Kepes @benkepes, Clive Boulton @ic, Rakesh Malhotra @rakeshm and Sam Johnston @samj. We tackle recent cloud computing trends, PaaS, distributed systems and cleaning up messaging around the mess marketing has made of “cloud”. Cloud Computing, PaaS, Distributed Systems and Cleaning the Marketing Mess from Adron Hall on Vimeo. [...]
Divorce Facebook Style
Who gets the data after a couple gets divorced? You might be surprised at just how much Facebook data plays in a divorce scenario, and if Take this Lollypop didn’t scare you, this should make you stop and think for a minute about data, and who it belongs to. Any good divorce lawyer is going [...]
Bridging the Chasm Between IT and the Business
People go to great lengths to explain how cloud computing is democratizing IT and enabling the end-users of technology to make some decisions themselves about what they use, how they use it and how quickly they can get set up. A plethora of enterprise vendors have got their start in
How are people using Cloud Computing?
With all the power and possibilities of using cloud computing, how are people actually using the technology? You might just be surprised by this late 2012 data gathered and presented in this latest survey data. From the latest survey in how people are using Cloud Computing, 41% of the people taking the survey say that [...]
OpenStack Infighting: Will It Affect The Project?
It has been 2+ years since OpenStack was launched and the project is slowly maturing as organizations are exploring the use of OpenStack for their private cloud needs. As money gets into the ecosystem, it is natural for bickering to start among the ecosystem players. In fact, naysayers of the project has been saying this [...]
CloudPassage Cloud Security Survey
CloudPassage was kind enough to share with me the raw data from their latest cloud computing security survey. In many ways this is what you would expect to see in a survey of companies that are still working out exactly what they want to do in the cloud and the approaches they want to take [...]
A Method for Applying Jobs-to-Be-Done to Product and Service Design
Say you’re designing something new for a product or service. Of course, you have your own ideas for what to do. But, how informed are you really about what is needed? This is a question I faced in thinking about game mechanics used in a social platform. A common product approach is to work up [...]
Fight Cancer, Get My Time
Last year, I rode in Cycle for Survival, and helped raise over $15 million for cancer. You guys helped by donating over $2,000. This year, it’s even more personal. As you know, I lost my beloved dog Kobe to cancer last Fall. Meanwhile, my friend David Weekly lost his mother, and his brother is now [...]
Open Source Metrics: Let Us Get Realistic
Recently a blogger wrote an article comparing the mailing list interaction in the communities around major open source infrastructure projects. It is a personal project by a blogger using various data sources available in the internet. But the post kickstarted discussion among the punditry talking about whether OpenStack or CloudStack is the top ranking infrastructure [...]
2013 – The Year of the User – Again.
I’ve long since given up the perennial quest of predicting “what this year will bring”, skillfully leaving this particular exercise in bland rhetoric to those bold enough to want to suggest whether 2013, 2014, 2015 or 2021 will indeed finally prove be the year of VDI, Linux on the Desktop or herald the arrival of other such [...]
[Some of] what you need to know about the cloud for 2013
Towards the end of last year, David Linthicum and I joined GigaOM’s Adam Lesser on a skype chat to take a look back at cloud successes and failures in 2012, and forward to cloud opportunities in 2013. GigaOM released the conversation as a podcast this morning. Amazon, Rackspace, Google, OpenStack, DropBox, and more get a [...]
Three Cloud Visionaries in 2012
2012 is over and blogosphere is buzz with post-mortem and predictions. I thought I will jump in and write about three people in the cloud computing space who inspired me with the work they are doing. Let me make it clear that there are many others who had an impact in the space but these [...]
My Year of Coding, Messaging, Learning, Leading, Reconoitering, and Hacking in Photos
Hope you have a little patience, this blog entry is going to be pretty long. There was a multitude of conferences, more than a hundred pair coding sessions, more cities, hotels and other things as I criss crossed the country helping to knock out projects, code, fire off some open source projects and generally get [...]
Minimize Regrets And Not Failures
While I ponder on 2012 and plan for 2013, I always keep the regret minimization framework (watch the short video clip above) in back of my mind. Of course luck plays a huge part in people’s success, but we owe it a lot to Jeff Bezos. We probably wouldn’t have seen Amazon.com and we most [...]
