Posts tagged 6) Cloud Computing
Most Canadian Cloud compute cycles will be SMB
May 20th
In a previous post, I presented some rationale to support the projection that most cloud compute cycles will be HPC. The principle rationale was that although many HPC applications have requirements not suitable to the cloud, a fourth paradigm of big data will make cloud based HPC a dominant consumer of HPC cycles. In this post I’d [...]
How long till Cloud Computing and Tablets are in the Trough of Disillusionment?
May 19th
You may not be familiar with the diagram above. Welcome to Gartner’s 2o1o version of their Hype Cycle. For a number of years, Gartner has tracked 1,800 emerging technologies and plotted them along a curve representing the stage of maturity, as well as an estimate as to the number of years it may take [...]
What could possibly go wrong (with Cloud Computing)?
May 15th
We all know one… The eternal optimist who’s absolutely determined that everthing is fine, that you worry too much, that you should just unknot your knickers and get on with life. He constantly reminds you that things have a way of working out in the end, and that 80% of what we worry about never [...]
Dark Clouds over Canada
May 13th
I attended the Trend Micro seminar in Ottawa last week, where their CTO opened the talk on Cloud Computing security with the term ‘Dark Clouds’. Rafael Ruffolo covered that same seminar in Toronto the next day with this article, but he didn’t mention the dark clouds opening analogy (maybe he had a different opening for the [...]
Gartner vs. Google’s Cloud: One of them didn’t float with IT Leaders
May 7th
I had the privilege of attending Midsize Enterprise Summit in Orlando this week. While the weather has been delightful, the long days of the conference made sure we didn’t really get time to enjoy it. The theme of the week has been cloud computing, and several notable experts from Gartner Research, as well as industry [...]
Cloud computing for dummies
May 5th
Actually it was a room full of CIOs and IT decision makers, but what I heard last evening at the Midsize Enterprise Summit 2011 keynotes provided one of the better explanations of cloud computing… And it came from a major vendor no less! Jordan Chrysafidis, Microsoft’s VP of SMS&P outlined cloud computing based on needed [...]
Gorilla Clouds?
May 4th
In Geoffrey Moore’s books (Crossing the Chasm, Gorilla Game, etc) the gorilla is the market-share leader whose position is sustained by proprietary technology that has high switching costs (Wikipedia says so!!). I’ve always said “owns the architecture” and “costs too much to change vendors” – with Cisco being one example, Intel another and Microsoft being the [...]
The Most Important Blog Post on Strategy You’ll Ever Read!
Apr 18th
IT folks are busy people. Their typical workday doesn’t fit in the 9-5 slot (equipment NEVER breaks down during the workday – 3am being the preferred time.) Busy is good, right? There’s so much to do! Maybe. A wise IT leader should never, ever, confuse motion with progress. You can be busy, but busy doing [...]
Cisco’s Flip Flop
Apr 13th
Sorry, I couldn’t resist the heading for this post. As you will find out during the course of this contest, I dearly love words, their meanings, and how they intermingle and create alternate meanings. I’m a textbook polysemaniac. But enough of that. If you follow the blogosphere, you will have noticed that Cisco recently announced [...]
CloudCamp 2. Cloud Computing: Return on Investment
May 5th
This is another session from Cloudcamp that was held in Toronto on April 6, 2010. (Find the article about the first session, with links to the CloudCamp sound files and some presentations, here.) The session was facilitated by Dave Nielsen and discussed the ROI of cloud computing. The following questions were raised: What is cloud [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 2 – Compute Servers
Apr 28th
In the first post of this series, we looked at the technology adoption life cycle, seven value propositions for market adoption of virtualization, five classes of computing and the maturity of virtualization in mainframe computers. Over the last several years, virtual machines have seen major adoption in the commodity compute server market. I think it [...]
Cloudcamp 1. The unpanel
Apr 27th
A Cloudcamp was held in Toronto on April 6, 2010. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept of a camp, it is usually an unconference: there is little or no traditional presentations (one active presenter vs. a more or less passive audience). Instead of that, most camps are unconferences where people [...]
SFDC and VMware: Software + Services comes to AppExchange?
Apr 14th
Salesforce.com continues to ramp up its cloud offering and bolster its position as a leading business applications provider for companies of all sizes. News is now out that later this month there will be a big announcement from SFDC and VMware of a joint product announcement – you can even see the mock up landing [...]
The cloud, why do you care?
Apr 13th
I was recently speaking at a Computerworld Canada event in Calgary and Edmonton, the focus was on Linux as the proper operating system for the cloud. While I brought over a decade of Linux in the enterprise experience to the discussion, my real focus was on the solution for business rather than the fact it was delivered as a cloud application or service.
ERP Software-as-a-Service: Choosing the Duck versus the Chicken
Apr 8th
Have you ever noticed the price premium of duck over chicken in restaurants? There are many reasons (e.g. numbers raised in captivity, diversity of usage across products, cost to domesticate, maintenance, etc.) and I am sure you can come up with more on your own,. Fundamentally though, ducks and chickens are both birds and I [...]
