It's been two years since for a variety factors we decided to stop posting to
the Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum. Over that time, a lot has changed
within the industry, as well as in my personal life (two kids) and
professional life (Enomaly sold). The cloud has gone from a fringe concept to
a mainstream phenomenon. A phenomenon that can be seen in almost every part
of information technology today. We've seen open to data center alliances
to open server specifications to open stacks, to say the least, the need for
"open" has propagated far and wide. But alas, there is still no uniform
access for a truly interoperable cloud. A single stack, hardware
specification or alliance has yet to result in any global interoperability
among cloud services.
Over the past several months, I have been busy in the acquisition of my
previous company Enomaly to Virtustream. No... (more)
While on the road at CloudCamp DC, I had the opportunity to interview long
time friend and cloud expert JP Morgenthal (Principal Solutions Architect
from EMC).
We talked Clouds, Hybrid, Federation, SaaS and the rise of PaaS, moving
toward a services based architecture/economy.
... (more)
I'm hosting solo this week and our guests are Ben Kepes from Diversity
Limited and Reza Malekzadeh from Nimbula. Ben chats about the infrastructure
and tech industry in New Zealand and how that ties to the opportunity in
emerging markets while Reza tackles a discussion of the open source model and
where the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) industry is heading.
You can find Ben on Twitter @BenKepes Show Timeline:
0:00: Reuven updates us on his travels in Korea and covers the News of the
Week
10:13: Interview with Ben Kepes from Diversity Limited
24:57: Interview with Reza Malekzad... (more)
While some are happy to debate definitions of cloud computing, I prefer to
focus on the characteristics that make successful companies, successful.
Lately there seems to have been a shift from the anything for anyone cloud to
the industry or vertically focused cloud. Adding to this is today's piece of
news from Zynga who announced what they describe as "the beta release of
Zynga.com, a new service enabling third party developers to create and
publish games on the Zynga Platform." Yes, that company that brought you
farmville is now going to be a cloud service provider enabling a ... (more)
Last night I had a nice chat with my Mom (@mcuniverse) who with her various
blogs, websites and gadgets is by all means someone way ahead of the
technology curve for her generation. Yet even as a "Computer Buff" she still
describes herself as a late adopter of technology. Beside being my Mother and
the person who first introduced me to technology, she's a great sounding
board when it comes to insights into the technology adoption curve of the
boomer generation.
Back to the discussion ~ during it occurred to us that back in the day, (late
1980s) all the best apps were distributed ... (more)
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