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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 [...]
Posted on Monday, November 2, 2009 by adminUncategorized
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 [...]
Posted on Saturday, October 31, 2009 by adminUncategorized
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 [...]
Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2009 by adminUncategorized
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 [...]
Posted on Friday, September 25, 2009 by adminUncategorized
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 [...]
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 by adminUncategorized
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 on Friday, July 3, 2009 by adminUncategorized
Last week I was invited to speak as part of the London leg of TIBCO’s NOW roadshow, which focused primarily on Cloud computing and TIBCO’s new Silver offering (you can see what we think about that specifically in this report). My job was to talk about “articulating the value of Cloud computing”. This was a [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 25, 2009 by adminUncategorized
Earlier this year IBM (and reportedly) HP both took Sun Microsystems out for first dates but neither decided to take things any further (though IBM arguably got to second base). Now it seems Oracle is prepared to go the whole way with the iconic dot.com technology brand. Are we looking at a beautiful wedding on [...]
Posted on Monday, April 20, 2009 by adminUncategorized
Something that’s been sloshing gently around in my head for a little while came into focus the other day on reading a post by Brenda Michelson: Unintentional Cloud Watching >> Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architects. Namely, that the link between cloud computing and SOA has multiple angles. It’s becoming clearer that, true to Tim O’Reilly’s [...]
Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 by admin
