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 [...]
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 [...]
December 19, 2009 – 12:46
Over a year and a half ago, I mentioned that there were four key aspects to cloud computing: scalability, leverage, speed, and reach. All of these still hold true today. In particular, the one area that was underdeveloped was the notion of using clouds for global reach.
As you know, since then quite a bit has [...]
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 [...]
If you can’t be ‘best‘ or ‘cheapest‘, that only leaves being ‘first’ (see Pt. 1: Service Clouds and Pt. 2: Commodity Clouds). Since Amazon Web Services (AWS) clinched the ‘first’ and ‘best’ titles for the general marketplace, your best bet is to pick a subset of the market to focus on. Focused clouds find a sweet [...]