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[Some of] what you need to know about the cloud for 2013
Towards the end of last year, David Linthicum and I joined GigaOM’s Adam Lesser on a skype chat to take a look back at cloud successes and failures in 2012, and forward to cloud opportunities in 2013. GigaOM released the conversation as a podcast this morning. Amazon, Rackspace, Google, OpenStack, DropBox, and more get a [...]
Minimize Regrets And Not Failures
While I ponder on 2012 and plan for 2013, I always keep the regret minimization framework (watch the short video clip above) in back of my mind. Of course luck plays a huge part in people’s success, but we owe it a lot to Jeff Bezos. We probably wouldn’t have seen Amazon.com and we most [...]
Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a fantastic holiday. This is a review post that I think you will find particularly compelling. Rather than predicting the future I thought I would take a look back at five long years of ‘cloud computing’. As many of you long time readers know, I’ve been ‘in [...]
Predictions For 2012 – Cloud Expo Edition
I know it is too early for 2012 predictions and let us consider this to be the preview of what will come towards the end of this year. Cloud Expo is round the corner and Jeremy Geelan asked me to send him five predictions for 2012 as a part of Cloud Expo preview. They have [...]
Saugatuck Study Predicts Every Business Category On The Cloud By 2015
Saugatuck Technology, Connecticut based Research and Consulting firm, released a new report today titled Key SaaS, PaaS and IaaS Trends Through 2015 – Business Transformation via the Cloud based on the analysis of global surveys, interviews, etc.. The interesting prediction of this report is that all categories of business computing will move to cloud by [...]
Gartner Forecasts 16% Increase In Enterprise SaaS Revenue During 2011
Gartner has released a forecast that predicts a 16.2 percent increase in SaaS revenue in the enterprise application market from 2010. The SaaS revenue in the enterprise application software market in 2009 was $7.9 Billion and, according to the analyst firm, it is forecasted to increase to $9.2 Billion in 2010, a solid 15.7 percent [...]
The Dreaded Predictions List
Ahhhh, December – how I love thee. I have this annual tradition in December where I completely suspend work for the last two weeks of the month, and I spend time assessing the past year (how I performed on personal goals; I’m big on writing down goals, etc), and plan out the coming 12 months [...]
Gartner prediction is way too conservative
Gartner has released a new report that predicts a 7 year time frame for the maturation of Cloud based technologies (Here is the associated press release). They talk about a three phase evolution of the markets, spread all the way to 2015. They call the current phase (2007-2011) as Pioneers and Trailblazers. They call the [...]
Cloud Computing Predictions for 2009
On 31st December, 2008, I looked back at the year and offered my take on two of the most important events in the year that just ended. In this post, I will offer my predictions for this year. I have already offered my predictions to Jeremy Geelan of Sys-Con Media. In this post, I will [...]
