Tag Archives: standards
"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 … Continue reading
VMware vs. Amazon … ROUND ONE … FIGHT!
More and more it’s becoming apparent that VMware and Amazon are headed for a serious collision. Amazon is eager to capture more of the enterprise business market, VMware’s bread and butter. Meanwhile, VMware is actively supporting a new crop of … Continue reading
Bifurcating Clouds
There will soon be two major paths for cloud computing providers: commodity and premium. If you read my series, Cloud Futures, you’ll know that I broke down cloud service providers into three major categories: service clouds, consumer clouds (previously ‘commodity’)[1], … Continue reading
The "Open" Cloud is Coming
The rhetoric from open source pundits about the ‘closed’ cloud has already started. From Richard Stallman to others there has been nay-saying related to the cloud being ultimately closed and proprietary. This is a fundamentally misguided understanding. Where ever you … Continue reading
Cloud Standardization Like Internet Standardization?
One of my favorite and very opinionated folks is Benjamin Black. He just posted a presentation he gave last year that mirrors some of my earlier thoughts about the parallels between the advent and standardization of Internet+TCP/IP and Cloud Computing. … Continue reading