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 [...]
EuroCloud UK members making sense of Cloud standards and security
The newly formed EuroCloud UK group held their first member meeting a week ago at the Thistle City Barbican Hotel – a panel led group discussion on Cloud standards and security. Chaired by Phil Wainewright, the panel experts were Dr. Guy Bunker, independent consultant and blogger, formerly Symantec’s chief scientist and co-author of ENISA‘s cloud [...]
Can Cloud vendors move beyond the terminology debate?
I recently mentioned Richard Messik’s great post castigating Cloud vendors on their jargon overload in the panel discussions at Softworld back in October. Over on AccountingWEB there has been some vigorous debate around the Cloud issues in discussion threads on whether accountants should be talking to their clients about Cloud Computing, the business case for [...]
Standards – The Opposing View
Eric posted yesterday looking at why the adoption of standards can be a bad thing. Rather than discussing his post in the context of the recent Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum debacle (I’m sure calling it a debacle will get people from both sides of the divide fired up – but you have to admit it [...]
The Dangers of Early “Formalization”
If you’ve been watching cloud computing at all, you’ve undoubtedly seen the whole brouhaha over the Open Cloud manifesto. I won’t recount it here, mostly because – frankly – I can’t tell what’s actually going on there anymore. So and so said one thing, while thanking so and so, who declined to comment on three [...]
The Pot Calling The Kettle Black
Image via CrunchBase Today, Steve Martin of Microsoft wrote a post criticizing the secrecy behind the development of Cloud Computing interoperability guidelines. He has attacked the attempts by some vendors who are trying to push interoperability guidelines. He has called for an open process instead of a closed approach, supposedly, taken by these vendors. The [...]
Data Standards for Web Applications
While many despise WMA, DOC, MP3 and other proprietary formats the discussions about data formats used by web applications have been surprisingly silent. It is true that this is mainly because a lot of web applications offer XML export or offer an API for exporting data to other services. But as data formats in the [...]
How Safe is Your Social Media Investment?
Image by via CrunchBase Recently, our guest author, Devan Sabaratnam, wrote about the shutting down of a service called I Want Sandy. Today, Pownce announced that they are shutting down the doors in two weeks time. This calls into question how reliable it is for users to move their data online and whether it is [...]
