Entries Categorized as 'Emerging Phenomena'
by Daryl Plummer | December 13, 2011 | 2 Comments
In 2011, Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) has grown from a minor curiosity into a major point of interest for cloud providers and consumers alike. The issues of aggregating, integrating, customizing, and governing cloud services have become serious ones for small, medium, and large Enterprises who need help getting their cloud services to be the solutions [...]
Category: Bill of Rights Broker Cloud Cloud Broker Cloud Services Brokerage Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Virtualization Tags: Broker, Brokerage, Cloud Broker, Cloud Brokerage, Cloud Sevices Brokerage
by Daryl Plummer | November 8, 2010 | 8 Comments
I’m about to introduce a term to describe a solid trend in cloud computing integration – Cloudstreams. It will come as no surprise to those of you who have spoken to me that this trend lays in the domain of cloud services brokerage. I have said, and will continue to say, that cloud services brokerage [...]
Category: Cloud EA ERP Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google IAM IT Governance SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Strategic Planning Vendor Contracts Virtualization Windows 7 Tags: Billing, Business, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud Services, Commoditization, Communities, Elasticity, hype, IBM, Inrastructure, IT, private cloud, Smarter Planet, SOA, Social, Telecommunications, Trends
by Daryl Plummer | October 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
I recently wrote a prediction stating that “Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) is the single largest revenue growth opportunity in Cloud Computing”. Of course, not everyone agrees with that. So, I had to go out an try to provide more evidence. And to do that, I finished rewriting the definition of cloud services brokerage. Benoit Lheruex [...]
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by Daryl Plummer | July 11, 2010 | 5 Comments
It has long been apparent to me that Cloud Computing represents a significant change in the relationships between providers of solutions based on technology and the consumers who use those solutions. Whether you are talking about how computing solutions are paid for, who delivers them, or what the contracts for those services look like, you [...]
Category: Applications BPM Bill of Rights Business Process Management Cartoon Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends IT Governance Responsibilities Service Orientation Strategic Planning Vendor Contracts Tags: Bill of Rights, Cloud computing, Cloud Rights, Cloud Services, consumers, Gartner's Global IT Council On Cloud Computing, Global IT Council, providers, Responsibilities, Rights and responsibilities, trust
by Daryl Plummer | March 30, 2010 | 5 Comments
I posed an interesting question in our cloud council meeting last month. Since then, I have been trying to get more detail on the issue. The question was, when will cloud services providers begin to acquire bulk licenses of popular software products to deploy on behalf of cloud services consumers? The essential issue here is [...]
Category: Cartoon Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Uncategorized Tags: Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud Services
by Daryl Plummer | February 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
In the last three months, I seem to be spending a lot of time with legal staff at large enterprises talking about cloud computing. I knew the lawyers would wake and get in this game in a big way, but what has surprised me is the amount of glee these lawyers seem to have re [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Management Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google Music SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Uncategorized Tags: Cartoon, Cloud, Cloud Services, Comic, Enterprise, Infrastructure, Pay as you go, private cloud, Smarter Planet, SOA, Social, Social Networking, Trends
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 SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation 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 SOA Service Orientation 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 SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation 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 SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation 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
