Moving To The Cloud – Internal Business Considerations
Closing out my series looking and some tips and tricks for organizations making the move to the cloud — arguably leaving the most important for last — I’m going to write about the internal issues that need to be taken into consideration. First a bit of context around this – my perspective is that cloud [...]
How CEP will make SaaS the killer app
I got the insight at TIBCO’s Transform event I blogged about yesterday - how we can finally solve the Customisation Riddle we’ve been unsuccessfully combating in IT for decades. Software as a Service is breathing down our necks and guaranteed to replace quite a few on-premise apps in this decade alone. Starting with your tertiary (cleaning, [...]
Social Media Hysteria
Yesterday, after the Amazon outage, I tweeted a comment highlighting the difficulties faced by AWS customers (applicable, in general, to all public cloud customers) when there is an outage. It was a tweet meant to highlight how desperate the situation becomes for AWS customers as well as AWS employees. I compared the situation after such [...]
Google Compute Engine–Day One Analsysis
At GoogleIO today, Google announced the limited launch of its Infrastructure as a Service product, Google Compute Engine. This comes as no surprise, the move has been rumored for months and Google does undeniably have some of the largest scale infrastructure on earth alongside the smarts to run it amazingly effectively – a potent combination [...]
The Right Storage, the Right Cloud
We spend a lot of time in this blog talking about the architecture of elastic infrastructure clouds (EIC) like AWS and our own Open Cloud System. We contrast this against the architecture of enterprise virtualization clouds (EVC) like VCE’s Vblock. Nowhere are these differences more obvious than when you look at how storage systems are [...]
TIBCO Transform – it says it all
I attended TIBCO’s Transform event in London. Located at the Westminster Bridge Park Plaza hotel, around 600 people were there. Kicked off by Raj Verma, Senior VP of worldwide Marketing, a 2 hour session started that never bored for a minute. Very smoothly Raj led us through a full history of TIBCO, showing impressive figures [...]
Collaboration and Chess
One of the things I love about chess is that the variations of moves in a game are virtually endless. There are more possible moves in a chess game then there are atoms in the entire universe and more moves then there are seconds that have elapsed since the big bang. All of this, on a tiny 8×8 wooden [...]
The best Spam Message I have ever received
Sometimes you just get an awesome spam message that is too sweet not to pass up. Today I got one that simply rocks. Everything left intact, including typos, formatting, and grammar. Simply brilliant. Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division Fbi Headquarters In Washington, D.C. Federal Bureau Of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover Building 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, [...]
Cooking up some Standard Recipes for OpenStack with Opscode
The battle royal that is being played out between the different Cloud “operating systems” reached new heights at Structure last week. While all of us are talking about this stuff however, vendors and customers alike are simply trying to get going with these tools. They’re not focused on idealogical battles, but rather on finding easy [...]
Bill.com Helps Business Look forward with Real Time Cash Flow
Cloud accounting vendors have long articulated a value proposition that, in part, talks of giving businesses a deep insight into their cash flow so they can make well informed plans for their short and mid-term financial future. The reality however is that accounting applications are by nature backwards looking and
NASDAQ CEO blames CIO over Facebook IPO
NASDAQ CEO, Robert Greifeld, blames staffers and IT for the Facebook IPO debacle. Where was his own accountability?
OS Bridge 2012 :: Day #1 :: How I Got Here…
Today was the kick off of OS Bridge 2012. I jumped aboard my trusty steed (bicycle) for the mighty 6 block rider to the conference. Yeah, I could have just walked, but I just felt like getting their the fastest way possible. After arriving I was immediately faced with two great greetings. The first one …
Why Did Microsoft Acquire Yammer?
If you haven’t heard the news yet, Microsoft has officially announced that they acquired Yammer for 1.2 billion dollars. I’ve had several discussions around this over the past week or so, ever since the rumors first started circulating. It’s an interesting move and I think it makes sense. Yammer has just under a million paid [...]
HP’sCloud Forays – DreamWorks runs on OpenStack Powered Production Kit
At HP Discover (disclosure – HP covered my T&E to attend Discover), almost half of the opening day keynote was given over to DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg to articulate why DreamWorks has gone “all in” with HP. Katzenberg’s presentation was entertaining, and told the usual tails of an industry that is undergoing seismic shifts and [...]
With Yammer, Microsoft Begins Its Journey From Collaborative To Social
Confirming what we already knew, today Microsoft announced they are acquiring Yammer for $1.2 billion in cold cash. Here’s a blog post by David Sacks, the CEO of Yammer. Microsoft doesn’t report a revenue breakdown for their individual products but SharePoint is believed to be one of the fastest growing products with annual revenue of [...]
