Gartner’s Latest IaaS Magic Quadrant Released–Meh With a Bit of Interesting
I’m not usually big on Gartner’s crystal-ball-gazing Magic Quadrant methodology – some people claim it’s pay-for-play writ large. I don’t know about that, it just seems to be a somewhat hokey, albeit scientifically-based, prediction of what might occur or, more often, hat already is. Anyway – with that said, the latest IaaS MQ is pretty [...]
A Preview of VMworld–On VMware’s Cunning Plans
In a couple of weeks I’ll be in San Francisco for VMware annual conference, VMworld. This will actually be my first time attending the even in person and I suspect I’ve chosen the best year to be there – there are some seismic shifts occurring in VMware’s business and I
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 [...]
Oracle Introduces Cloud and Social. My Perspective
by Oracle_Photos_Screenshots During a keynote that saw Larry Ellison make up for his abysmal performance of a few days before, and before bigger news events in Silicon Valley bought the tech world to its knees, a number of announcements were made with the usual Ellison flourishes. Curiously these two massive announcements were made towards the [...]
Life On The Open Waves
For those of you who are either generally interested or perhaps following from afar, it has certainly been difficult to miss the numerous goings-on within the OpenStack community over this last couple of weeks. In what could yet turn out to be the biggest soap opera to appear out of Texas since “Dallas”, there is certainly no shortage of drama - the [...]
The Hollywood Culture
Debates are fun, especially when you are jousting with such fantastic and respected cloud dignitaries as Chris Hoff, Adrian Cockcroft and Simon Wardley. Come on, I mean who wouldn’t enjoy a good natured, well intended, yet fierce back and forth about the various clouds and their various philosophies ? Well, March 12 was a day [...]
Simon Wardley’s Prophecy: Is Openstack The Small Guy Going To Disrupt Amazon’s Dominance?
When I wrote about Openstack last week, I talked about the disruptive potential of an Openstack.org and how it can make the market by empowering the smaller players. Many people who dismiss Openstack.org as a non-starter fail to understand that it is just a start. Openstack.org doesn’t claim it has the miracle pill for all [...]
Video: Simon Wardley On Innovation, Change And Commoditization
Simon Wardley, a researcher at the Leading Edge Forum at CSC, gave a phenomenal talk at OSCON 10 this week. Irrespective of whether you are associated with Open Source or Cloud Computing, you may find this talk extremely useful. Anyone interested in understanding the lifecycle of an organization and how they can surf the winds [...]
Video: Cloud Computing – Why IT Matters
Simon Wardley of Canonical Inc gave a great talk at the recently concluded OSCON 2009. Being a blog about Cloud Computing, I thought I should add the video here for Cloud Ave readers.
Built-in Support for the Cloud Makes Ubuntu Something Special
Krishnan wrote about the next version of Ubuntu, Karmic Koala, back in March and said; Essentially, Ubuntu has decided to focus on developing features which will help propel Ubuntu Server edition to play a major role in the Cloud infrastructure ecosystem By incorporating code from Project EUCALYPTUS into this latest version of the Linux distribution, [...]
