I was (very slowly) getting wound up to splurge an in-depth post on Google’s partnership with VMware around the Google App Engine, but then I read William Vambenepe’s blog: From VMWare + SalesForce.com (VMForce) to VMWare + Google: VMWare’s PaaS milestones.
I think he’s done a lot of the work for me…
What I will do is [...]
Posted by Neil Ward-Dutton on May 28, 2010
Just a quick note to say that I’m honoured to have been asked to provide a keynote presentation at the upcoming CloudSlam ‘10 virtual conference being held from March 23-25.
My presentation is scheduled for 11am ET / 8am PT on March 23rd and is titled “Cloud forecasting: models, predictions, pitfalls and planning”. More details are [...]
Posted by Neil Ward-Dutton on March 9, 2010
One of the themes we delve into in our free online framing a Cloud Computing strategy event is the emerging role of the Service Integrator. This is something I’ve been talking about for a while in discussions with clients but I thought I’d share it a bit more widely…
So what is a Service Integrator? Simply [...]
Posted by Neil Ward-Dutton on February 23, 2010
It’s easy to dismiss Cloud Computing as just another IT industry hype bubble that will one day burst, showering everyone in a slightly stale-smelling mist. Certainly, as with all waves of technology advancement, there’s been an *awful* lot of hype about the potential and – just like any other technology advancement – Cloud Computing offers [...]
Posted by Neil Ward-Dutton on February 16, 2010
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While I was at IASA’s ITARC NYC the other week, Matt Deacon (day job: developer/architect evangelist for Microsoft in the UK; evening job: UK Chapter President of IASA) interviewed me about my thoughts on the value of architecture, the role of IASA and also about the talk I gave at the event.
The talk I gave [...]
Posted by admin on November 2, 2009
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The other day I got a business update from Sonoa Systems, sparked by the arrival at the company by Sam Ramji – former Senior Director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft. Sam is now the VP of Strategy at Sonoa.
As you can see in our report on Sonoa, the company is making significant inroads in a [...]
Posted by admin on October 31, 2009
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On the fifth attempt, I finally managed to attend CloudCamp London earlier in the week. I’m glad I went – the “camp” format isn’t for everyone, but it works well for topics like Cloud Computing where most of the value is in networking and hashing out ideas/arguments.
The latter part of the evening was given over [...]
Posted by admin on September 26, 2009
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Regarding public vs private Clouds: what he said.
I have a real problem with the positioning of infrastructure that you buy, install and own yourself as “private cloud” – even if it is the kind of infrastructure that Cloud providers might install in their own data centers. The problem I have is that Cloud computing *has* [...]
Posted by admin on September 25, 2009
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We all know that the general level of industry interest in Cloud Computing is high – but how much is Cloud Computing being actively considered and pursued by “enterprise IT” organisations, as opposed to software-as-a-service startups and professional ISVs moving to the SaaS model?
To help support the launch of our new Software Delivery advisory service [...]
Posted by admin on September 11, 2009
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In last week’s post on the seven elements of Cloud computing’s value, I said that the simple model I put forward looked like being a nice way to compare different Cloud approaches and offerings and see what’s really being offered. There’s a lot of people jumping on this particular bandwagon, and a lot of the [...]
Posted by admin on July 3, 2009
