Daryl Plummer

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Cloud Brokerage is Gaining Ground

by Daryl Plummer  |  August 31, 2011  |  2 Comments

All of a sudden, everyone is interested in cloud services brokerage. Well, by everyone, I mean end customers looking for an easier way to integrate cloud computing into their plans and vendors seeking a new set of markets to mine. But no matter the interested party, one thing is clear. The options for doing cloud [...]

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Cloudstreams: The Next Cloud Integration Challenge

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 [...]

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Gartner’s Global IT Council on Cloud Computing: Do You Have Rights?

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 [...]

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Can Bulk Licenses in the Cloud Save Software Vendor Revenues?

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 [...]

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To Paraphrase Spock – Eat Well, and Prosper!

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 [...]

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Fly “Clear” through the Cloud and Learn a Lesson about Fear

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 [...]

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In the Cloud, the Unthinkable is Just Mission Difficult, Not Mission Impossible

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 [...]

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Google Releases new Initiative called “Google Stop”

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 [...]

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IBM Couldn’t Care Less About Being Cool. But Should We?

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 [...]

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How ATT, Michael Jackson, and Farrah Fawcett Ruined My “Cloud” Plans

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 [...]

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