Tag Archives: enterprise

Building A Commodity Cloud with EMC?

Just a quick post to note a recent blog post by Chuck Hollis (@chuckhollis) that discusses some of the issues related to using EMC for commodity clouds.  The posting hubs around a conversation I have been having with Chuck trying to understand the EMC product line better and seeing if there is a fit for [...]

Interview with Cloudscaling CEO on Cloud in the Mid-market

A recent interview I did with Alex Bewley of Uptime Software is finally available. Although the podcast is nominally about cloud computing for mid-tier enterprises, we actually cover much broader ground. Alex’s blog posting lists the core topics as:

what kinds of businesses are using cloud
how you should go about evaluating it
how to avoid being outsourced [...]

Intellum Interview Series with Randy Bias on Cloud

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 [...]

“Hybrid” Clouds are Half-Baked

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 [...]

State of the Cloud – Cloud Camp in the Clouds

I recently gave a short, 5-minute ‘lightning talk’ at Cloud Camp in the Clouds.  This is the first ‘virtual’ (online) event for the Cloud Camp folks.  I want to particularly thank the organizers Reuven Cohen, Dave Nielsen, and Sam Charrington for allowing me to give our perspective and also to let us tee up the entire event [...]

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