Self Service And Cloud
Recently a journalist contacted me to talk about a company she was covering. Since I never interacted with the vendor, I told her that I can talk about general trends in the market segment rather than anything specific about the vendor. I then checked the vendor’s website which claims to be a cloud services company. [...]
CIO view: NIST helps cut vendor cloud FUD
Recently updated research from NIST helps CIOs cut through the fear, uncertainty, and doubt of vendor hype about cloud computing.
NIST Ramps Up Cloud Computing Roadmap Efforts
NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology which first helped settle the cloud definition debate, is ramping up their efforts to finalize the US Govt. Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap. US Govt. is one of the largest IT customers with a $80 Billion budget and they plan to use at least $20 Billion on cloud computing. The [...]
Cutting Through the Fog of Cloud Computing Definitions
In recent years, the term “cloud computing” has been used and abused by vendors and their marketing groups to denote just about anything the vendor offers other than on-premise systems. Analysts too have piled on, each offering their own definition of cloud computing. This 2009 Wall Street Journal article outlined the confusion. The result has been fruitless [...]
Trading Places
Almost a year ago, I was deep in conversation with other members of the Clouderati discussing (philosophically, I might add) where the future of cloud computing and the associated services might lead and, more importantly, what that may mean for the next generation of enterprise CIOs. You may be aware of my enterprise background and [...]
