Public vs Private Cloud Brouhaha: My Take
Image via Wikipedia The blogosphere and Twitterverse is full of debates about whether private clouds are actually clouds or not. I have had my own share of debates on the Twitter and I thought I will bring it over to Cloud Ave for further enlightenment. For a change, I am going to follow the Redmonk [...]
What’s in a Cloud (or Not)
I read a lot of articles on technology and it always amazes me the degree of heated debate that goes on in the blogosphere, social media and elsewhere over simple definitions. What caught my attention today was the number of posts and comments on Twitter about what was or was not Cloud. So the question [...]
Obstacles To Enterprise Cloud Adoption: Who Is The Culprit?
Slowly, but steadily, enterprises are warming up to Cloud technologies. No, they are not queuing outside the Amazon headquarters waiting to order public cloud infrastructure, like the Amazon’s EC2 offerings, yet. But, the idea of private clouds and the advantages of tapping the public clouds for non mission critical operations like testing are slowly making [...]
SaaS and Religion: the Tenancy Debates. Do Customers Care?
(Warning: this is a long post. Only read it when sitting in a comfortable chair. Or a pool lounge, holding your CrunchPad.) Two recent posts by Enterprise Social Software vendors Jive and Atlassian set up a huge debate amongst my fellow Enterprise Irregulars. Here’s the money-quote from Jive: It’s not so long ago that it [...]
Riffing on the SaaS for the Government Meme
Sinclair Schuller over at Apprenda is someone I’ve been following now for a number of years. He’s obviously a vendor, so sometimes riffs off things with his own vendor-centric perspective, but that said he’s keen to push the thinking on SaaS generally, regardless of whether there is a “fit” for Apprenda in what he’s discussing. [...]
