The Future Ain’t Homogenized–Please Stop the FUD Vendors
We all, commentators, vendors and customers, need this cloud thing to happen safely and consistently. Dogmatic messages like these ones do nothing to increase the comfort level of prospective or actual cloud customers. Vendors, please stop it now. That is all.
Critical Paths & Functional Clouds
It took me less than 24 hours of being back in my former “home” of the Middle East (Abu Dhabi to be precise) to be starkly reminded that I had been remiss in my goal of penning some thoughts on the potential emergence of what I’ve dreadfully-named Functional Clouds and, more specifically, where I see they could [...]
The Hollywood Culture
Debates are fun, especially when you are jousting with such fantastic and respected cloud dignitaries as Chris Hoff, Adrian Cockcroft and Simon Wardley. Come on, I mean who wouldn’t enjoy a good natured, well intended, yet fierce back and forth about the various clouds and their various philosophies ? Well, March 12 was a day [...]
Wikileaks, Amazon And Public Clouds
When Wikileaks released the documents from US State Department, it faced DDOS attacks from people who didn’t like what they were doing. To counter the DDOS attacks, Wikileaks moved to AWS for their hosting needs, a move touted by some in the Clouderati as a validation of public cloud computing. Today, the Wikileaks site is [...]
