Will Rackspace Hijack OpenStack Project?
Yesterday the news about Rackspace buying Anso Labs, a cloud computing consulting firm who played a big role in developing the compute part of OpenStack project, came out and sent the cloud punditry scrambling for an opinion about its impact on OpenStack. Gavin Clarke wrote an article on The Register raising some concerns about Rackspace [...]
Skype Downtime And The Cloud Fail
Skype went down this morning and, as expected, Techmeme and Twitter are already going crazy with the news about downtime. There were speculations about problems with their centralized infrastructure used to authenticate users (which was a cause of trouble in one of the past outages) and some were even talking about “The Cloud Fail”. Whether [...]
Open Source Security Revisited – With Enough Eyeballs, All Bugs Are Shallow
It is a common knowledge that, usually, Open Source projects are successful because of the developers scratching their personal itch. It often starts with a group of disgruntled developers frustrated with a proprietary software because it fails to satisfy their needs. The very fact that they are left helpless due to the absence of source [...]
FUD in the House of SaaS – More on Suites
Recently I wrote about the evergreen Best-of-breed vs. Integrated All-in-One Suite debate again, arguing: Call me “old school”, but I also believe in the value of having one tightly integrated system for most business needs, and I believe it’s true not only for large corporations but much smaller businesses. I don’t have CIO’s to back [...]
McKinsey FUD Revisited
Image by kyeung808 via Flickr One topic that came up during the panel discussion at the Under the Radar event was about the recently released McKinsey report. Everyone was unanimous in highlighting the “errors” in the report’s conclusion. Many people have written extensively debunking McKinsey’s claims and the report also had support for its claim from pundits who [...]
Yes, Stop The FUD And SaaS Is Not ASP In New Clothes
Today, Ben did a great post lashing out the FUD around the concept os SaaS (Software as a Service). His post got me fired up to write the arguments I give in different forums to highlight the difference between SaaS and ASP. I hope we could put an end to the tactics of the people [...]
SaaS ≠ ASP2.0. A Treatise on FUD
FUD is a sceptics term to describe the cynical creation of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (hence FUD) to make a simple issue look more cloudy than it is. Alas there is much FUS present around the SaaS industry. Fellow author Krish has highlighted one example, namely the Microsoft S+S strategy. I’ve recently had a few [...]
Cloud Computing is Scary – But the FUD Has to Stop
Nevertheless, what I am seeing, and am not surprised by seeing is the standard reaction from some security professionals “no.” It is long past time to continue with the same old tired refrain of “no” and move on to where business is going. Security has been rapidly working on making themselves in a much more [...]
