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 23, 2009 | 5 Comments
I just finished the 5th conversation in a month with clients asking me to do a technical overview of IBM’s Smarter Planet. It is a marketing campaign that basically says we can use technology to inject more “smartness” into everything we do from infrastructure to work to become more effective. The interesting thing about this [...]
Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation Tags: Cloud computing, Earth Day, IBM, Planet, Smart, Smarter, Smarter Planet, Technology
by Daryl Plummer | April 1, 2009 | 2 Comments
G-Men #s 6 and 7. Click images to see larger view.
Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation Uncategorized Tags: Billing, Cloud computing, Cloud Services, Pay as you go
by Daryl Plummer | March 30, 2009 | 3 Comments
Today the Open Cloud Manifesto is supposed to be published and it has a laudable set of goals, not least of which is the idea that the cloud should be an open and interoperable environment. I have limited information at this point. I applaud the effort to move in this direction but I have to [...]
Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation Tags: Amazon, Cloud computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastrucutre, Cloud Manifesto, Enomaly, Google, IBM, Open, Open Cloud, Open Cloud Manifesto, Standards, Virtualization
by Daryl Plummer | February 23, 2009 | 4 Comments
Lydia Leong has elevated the discussion on the commoditization of cloud infrastructure in her response to my original post titled “Cloud Infrastructure: The Next Fat Dumb and Happy Pipe?” Her post, titled “Does cloud infrastructure become commoditized?“, rightly points out that added value has a life of its own that will tend to allow infrastructure [...]
Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation Tags: Cloud computing, Commoditization, Infrastructure, private cloud
by Daryl Plummer | February 12, 2009 | 4 Comments
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Category: Cloud Emergin Trends Emerging Phenomena Service Orientation Uncategorized Tags: Cloud computing, Comic, Green IT, IT
