Category Archives: Cloud Computing

Intellum Interview Series with Randy Bias on Cloud

March 1, 2010 – 08:00

I recently did a very long podcast and interview with Chip Ramsey, CEO of Intellum, on cloud computing.  Intellum is an up and comer in the e-learning space and are doing a new series of interviews with thought leaders in different spaces.  They started with Karl Kapp on e-learning and I’m honored that they tapped [...]

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Cloud Migrations Track @Cloud_Connect 2010

February 10, 2010 – 20:23

I wanted to follow up from yesterday’s post on the upcoming Cloud Connect event.  In particular, I want to talk a bit about the track I’m leading: Cloud Migrations.  The focus of the track is to talk about:

How to adopt cloud now
Choosing between clouds: internal, external, or both?
Real world example use cases
Understanding how clouds are built [...]

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CloudConnect 2010

February 9, 2010 – 11:25

If you’re not aware of it, CloudConnect 2010 is coming up on March 15-18th in Santa Clara, CA.  Our team is running the Cloud Migrations track and a special breakout session on building Private Clouds.  We managed to get some really great panelists for the Migrations track and we’re going to move from talking about [...]

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“Hybrid” Clouds are Half-Baked

February 2, 2010 – 09:49

It’s difficult to throw a stone these days without hitting a so-called ‘hybrid cloud.’ The problem is that the term hybrid, used in this context, appears to mean: “Put any two kinds of clouds together.” In fact, that’s how NIST defines it in their cloud definition document [1]. The problem with this [...]

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Debunking the “No Such Thing as A Private Cloud” Myth

January 19, 2010 – 06:50

Once upon a time, a network engineer scrawled an amorphous shape upon a whiteboard and wrote “Internet” thereon.  The amorphous circle, a ‘cloud’, soon became the de facto way that we represent “not my problem”, or outsourcing.  Hence, the “cloud” in cloud computing means that cloud is predominantly an outsourcing business model.  Only large scale [...]

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