Comments on: If You Build a Private Cloud, Will Anyone Come?

By: Does The CIO Have a Role In The Cloud? | Navatar Force

Does The CIO Have a Role In The Cloud? | Navatar Force — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:18:42 +0000

[...] Another great post when it comes to pointers, is from Thomas Bittman (also, from Gartner) titled If You Build a Private Cloud, Will Anyone Come. “We’ve got to get our IT people to stop thinking about products and technologies and [...]

By: Service-Oriented Architecture mobile edition

Service-Oriented Architecture mobile edition — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:52:18 +0000

[...] He advised against building a cloud “and hoping they wil come.” As he puts it in a new post: “We’ve got to get our IT people to stop thinking about products and technologies and even [...]

By: What if you build a Private Cloud?

What if you build a Private Cloud? — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:50:58 +0000

[...] service, and then you can start looking at architectures and products and technologies,” said Tom. Loading google.load(‘search’, ’1′); google.setOnLoadCallback(function(){ new [...]

By: The Private Cloud hoopla | Geek & High Tech

The Private Cloud hoopla | Geek & High Tech — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:07:46 +0000

[...] fine post from Tom Bittman If You Build a Private Cloud, Will Anyone Come?. He helps cut through the noise around private clouds with a statement that could be applied to [...]

By: Rebecca Lawson

Rebecca Lawson — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:46:40 +0000

Spot on, Tom.

If you have a service-centric mentally in IT, lots of questions, answers, and smart technology decisions fall into place. It’s not about cloud, it’s about how you can clearly articulate your service strategy, define services, calibrate them to monetary outcomes.

By: Does Private Cloud Equal Secure Cloud?

Does Private Cloud Equal Secure Cloud? — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:34:19 +0000

[...] As I mentioned here, 90% of the time it turns out the pressure is really to consumer some application as a service, not really cloud computing. 9.9% of the remaining conversations are more about the potential security issues of private cloud use. Which makes sense, since Gartner has projected that the actual enterprise use of true public cloud services has been way overhyped. Tom Bittman has a nice series of blog posts on private cloud issues here. [...]

By: Derik Pereira

Derik Pereira — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:28:23 +0000

Basically, if an enterprise adopts an IT Service Management framework (ITIL or something else) then going from no-cloud to yes-cloud will address all your valid points.

By: Peter Blair

Peter Blair — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:10:13 +0000

Plus ca change…

It seems that with every new technology or architecture, we return to a situation where the technology runs the service rather than the other way around.

I remember setting up a network in 1996 and having the same difficulties in insisting on service requirements first.

That requirement hasn’t changed