Entries Categorized as 'Cloud'
by Daryl Plummer | November 25, 2009 | Comments Off
The days of thanks begin at birth. For the few things we adults see as thankful-giving are echoed in the heart of the giving that came when we were put together as children. So conceive again the child… Conceive every day the living breath… Conceive again the joy of light seen through eyes not blinded [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Management Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google Music Service Orientation SOA SOA Governance Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Thanksgiving Tags: Business, Cloud, Cloud computing, Jokes, Obama, Opportunity, private cloud
by Daryl Plummer | November 25, 2009 | Comments Off
Lots of questions are starting to come in about whether or not information in the cloud will be safe. We all worry from time to time about some level of privacy of our information. But here is a real-world non-cloud example that illustrates exactly the nightmare scenario of fear and what has been done about [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Management Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google Service Orientation SOA Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Tags: Cloud computing, Cloud Services, private cloud
by Daryl Plummer | November 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
Wow. A great article by Mike Elgan on the impermanence of the web and the cloud was a treat to read and an eye opener to anyone who forgets that all things go through cycles of maturity (See The Wikipedia Exodus Is the Least of Our Worries). Mike correctly notes that we are all relying [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Management Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google Music Service Orientation SOA SOA Governance Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Uncategorized Tags: caution, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud Services, Commoditization, Communities, Elasticity, Opportunity, private cloud
by Daryl Plummer | November 13, 2009 | 9 Comments
On the heels of its recent release of the new programming language “Google Go” (See Gartner Analyst Ray Valdes’ take), the Mountainview behemoth has trumped itself with today’s release of “Google Stop”. Unlike “Go” which is a high productivity and fast system programming language, “Stop” is actually a low productivity and slow campaign to get [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Management Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google Music Service Orientation SOA SOA Governance Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Tags: Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud Services, Comic, Dilbert, Elasticity, Enterprise, Funny, Geek, Green IT, hype, Infrastructure, private cloud, Service, Services, Smarter Planet, Social, Social Networking
by Daryl Plummer | September 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
Recently, my colleague, Elise Olding asked me to draw a cartoon depicting the tension between the emotional side and the analytical side of BPM. She recently published a note about it where we intended to use the cartoons but circumstances prevented them being published together. The note, called “Don’t Let Your Emotions blow Up Your [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Management Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Music Service Orientation SOA SOA Governance Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Tags: BPM, BPMS, Business, Business Process Management, Composition, Culture, Lean, Organization, Process, Six Sigma, SOA, Tools
by Daryl Plummer | September 1, 2009 | 5 Comments
Have you noticed the outmoded forms of speech that just litter our modern world? Do you remember your grandparents talking about when their grandparents first got one of those new “horse-less carriages”? Or maybe your parents remember a time when their parents talked about going to a movin’-picture? Still not close enough? How about the [...]
Category: Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Music Service Orientation SOA SOA Governance Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Tags: Add new tag, blogger, Blogging, chat, Cloud, collaboration, facebook, forum, myspace, Social, Social Networking, Tweet, Twitter
by Daryl Plummer | August 18, 2009 | 10 Comments
For years I have had to interact with IBM as the “Big Dog” or the “Stodgy Legacy Guys” or the “Mainframe guys” or some such appellation that exists somewhere outside the range of any sense of coolness. The last three years have seen a change in the “grand old dame” of IT and I have [...]
Category: Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Music Service Orientation SOA SOA Governance Tags: BlueWorks, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloudburst, David, IBM, Late Night, Letterman, Lotus Live, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Smarter Planet, SOA
by Daryl Plummer | July 23, 2009 | 2 Comments
After a long hiatus from posting I am back with a bit of trivia that should make us all a little nervous about how easy cloud issues can become stuck in the mud. Ok, so I have a lot of friends who like to depend on me for technical support whenever they want to get [...]
Category: Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Music Service Orientation SOA SOA Governance Tags: ATT, Cloud, Cloud computing, Farrah, Farrah Fawcett, Frank Kenney, Home Server, Michael Jackson, Music, Thriller, U-Verse, UVerse, Windows
by Daryl Plummer | May 24, 2009 | 9 Comments
In a recent article published at Forbes.com, HP executive Russ Daniels penned an interesting piece called A Cloud In Every Garage. I have to admit that on reading the title, I thought I was in for a train wreck. The article looked to be positioned to follow the same mis-guided notions of “a cloud” as [...]
Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation Tags: Cloud computing, Cloud Services, Clouds, Economic, Growth, HP, Industrialization, Russ Daniels
by Daryl Plummer | April 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
Ok, so before I write anything else I will remind you that I like my iPhone – so take everything from this line on with a grain of salt. That is a bad thing for an analyst to admit but I didn’t say I like all the arcane and sometimes Faustian agreements that seem to [...]
Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation Tags: App Store, Apple, Developer, iPhone, Programming
