Daryl Plummer

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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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Legal Eagles And The Cloud: What Would Denny Crane Do?

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 [...]

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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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To Twitter or to Tweet?: When Will We Seem as Quaint as They All Do?

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 [...]

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On the Death of 20th Century thinking!

by Daryl Plummer  |  October 2, 2008  |  9 Comments

I’ve been spending a lot of time explaining cloud computing and service orientation to people lately. It’s getting frustrating. One reason is that there seems to be a pretty deeply embedded allegiance to what I have started to call “20th Century Thinking”, as opposed to “21st Century thinking”. Now, bear with me, because this is [...]

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