Saasu Drops Freemium–Some Users Balk at the Change
On New Years Eve, while on a holiday skiing trip in the French Alps, expat Aussie and Clouderati ringleader Sam Johnston wrote a series of tweets exclaiming his anger about a change that cloud accounting vendor Saasu had made to its terms and conditions. earlier this year, a Saasu blog post advised customers that it [...]
Cloud is Simple. Well, It’s Real Complex but that Complexity Can, and Should, be Hidden from Users.
An interesting discussion occurred on the CloudU LinkedIn group recently. It was started by an awesome post from James Urquhart admonishing people to accept the fact that Cloud is complex and to simply deal with it. The inimitable Sam Johnston posted an interesting response, the essence of which was that, while Cloud is undoubtedly complex, [...]
Cloudology–All That is Bad About IT
I haven’t got a lifetime’s experience in IT. Rather than an impediment in my career however, I’ve found that having come from a varied background has given me a degree of perspective that perhaps some of my lifers don’t enjoy. Case in point – this Cloudology diagram that Simon Wardley pointed out to me recently [...]
Podcast: Open Source and Cloud Computing
I have been advocating the role of Open Source in a Cloud based world. Recently, I got a chance to sit and talk with Geva Perry and James Urquhart on their podcast about the relevance of open source in a cloud based world. You can download the podcast here or head over to the podcast [...]
Digging into Berkeley's View of Cloud Computing
In two posts in the past week, Krishnan has mentioned the recently published Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing. As he mentioned, this report has been the talk of the Cloud community in the past few days, and opinion has been pretty divided as to some of its language and interpretations. Over [...]
