Way back when (over a year ago in fact) the second paper released in the CloudU series was on Cloudonomics – the study of the economic impacts and drivers for cloud computing. Having spent years watching this space, I’m continually bombarded by questions from customers, and assertions from vendors about the massive cost-savings that cloud […]
Last week we had the latest CloudU webinar, this time looking at the role of Open Standards in Cloud Computing. I was really excited to be joined on the call by Scott Sanchez, someone who is intimately involved with one of the biggest Cloud Open Standards plays, OpenStack. As well as Sanchez, we were joined […]
For years now those of us who talk Cloud on a daily basis have used variations on a triangle shape as a way to articulate what Cloud actually is and how the various services that make up Cloud can be differentiated. Traditional thinking (if one can have traditional thinking in a space as young as […]