Cloud on merit, not by dictat
The #CloudFirst trend is spreading, with Government Minister Francis Maude finally committing the UK to the approach earlier this month. But I remain concerned that there’s too much stick and not nearly enough carrot… and that cloud adoption more generally is ill-served by this mandate-driven ‘solution.’ Technological advances and shifting business requirements affect Government just as much […]
Discussing Virtual Machine interoperability with the Open Data Center Alliance
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) is holding its Forecast event in San Francisco in June, and I’ve been invited to moderate the panel discussing Virtual Machine Interoperability. As moderator, I’ll be far more interested in facilitating insights from panel and audience than in wittering on about what I think, so I wanted to use this […]
Forecast 2012–Enterprise Cloud Best Practices Panel
Mid June will see me winging my way to New York City to attend Forecast 2012, a one day event arranged by the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA). Forecast is touted as an opportunity to share knowledge and expertise through presentations, technical workgroups and the all important networking opportunities. I’ll be joined at Forecast by […]
The Cloud needs some standards (or a Code of Practice)
One of the big issues for a buyer today considering Cloud Computing is how do you choose a good Cloud provider from a bad one? Who do you trust? Maybe the Cloud Topic needs some standards? Well actually there are so many standards bodies and vendor groups that the picture is confused – something that […]
What is Really Holding the Cloud Back?
As I was listening to speakers at Structure Conference this year, something caught my attention and changed my thinking on cloud priorities. When IT decision makers are asked to rate the top challenges for cloud adoption, security always rises to the top. Security, security, security. At Structure, I heard something slightly different from Microsoft’s Satya […]
Open Data Center Alliance Announces Public Customer Requirements For Cloud Computing
Open Data Center Alliance (previous CloudAve coverage), an alliance of IT customers with more than $100 Billion in budget with Intel playing the role of technical advisor, last week announced recommendations for customer requirements for cloud computing in the areas related to security, transparency, efficiency and interoperability. Launched in October of 2010, ODCA has three […]
Intel Pushes Open Data Center Alliance
Intel is cheerleading a new alliance of 70 IT customers (with a net spending of $ 50 Billion), vendors and others to develop a vendor agnostic usage roadmap. The new body is called Open Data Center Alliance aims to define how datacenters of the future are to be built. Whether this will define the future […]
