Entries Tagged as 'Cloud'
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 | April 20, 2009 | 6 Comments
Today, Oracle announced plans to acquire Sun Microsystems. Gartner is in the process of generating an official position on what this means. You’re going to want to see what we have to say since there will be multiple pieces dissecting this acquisition announcement. However, in the here and now, it occurred to me, after listening [...]
Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation Tags: Cloud, Network, Network Computer, Network computing, Oracle, Pay as you go, Services, Sun, Sun Microsystems
by Daryl Plummer | March 11, 2009 | 13 Comments
Ever had a mobile phone and get a bill that was way, way more than you expected? You know what I mean. The day that bill for 700 dollars comes in and your eyes bug out of your head because you could swear (and in fact you do swear – at the customer service rep) [...]
Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation Uncategorized Tags: Cloud, Cloud Price, Elasticity, Hosting, IT, Mobile phone, Pay per use
by Daryl Plummer | March 3, 2009 | 3 Comments
I state up front that I am not a primary telecommunications analyst – but I have friends who are (give me or Bob Hafner a call to discuss). But, in the last 6 months, I think I have either met with, or spoken with every major telecom provider in the world. They all have the [...]
Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation Uncategorized Tags: Billing, Cloud, Inrastructure, private cloud, Telecom enabled, Telecommunications
by Daryl Plummer | February 22, 2009 | Comments Off
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross did a treatment about the stages of grief a person goes through on being told that their life would soon end. I would like to take liberties with that treatment and apply it to cloud computing for a moment. Why, you might ask? The cloud is just coming into most people’s minds, not dying [...]
Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation Tags: caution, Cloud, hype, private cloud
by Daryl Plummer | October 2, 2008 | 2 Comments
Welcome to my blog! It always seems to me that when anyone starts some new venture like this it is covered with expectations and hype from all quarters. Well, I hope not to disappoint. I will cover topics wide ranging and will examine ideas of depth. I will puncture conventional wisdom and excoriate some [...]
Category: Cloud Emergin Trends Emerging Phenomena Service Orientation Tags: Cloud, Services
