The enterprise market is a bit like a a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. On the one hand, the investment by service providers in "enterprise class" cloud services continues to accelerate. On the other hand, pretty much all I hear from enterprise customers is how they are primarily interested in private clouds.... Continue Reading →
Once Upon a Cloud
Here is a little story I tweeted last night... ONCE Upon a Cloud, there was a big river that ran wide and deep. And it was called Amazon.com And this great river Amazon grew fast upon great Infrastructure that it built, so that it was a marvel to behold in all the land. And the... Continue Reading →
Markets for Cloud Tools
I often get asked about where cloud tools and technologies are being sold/implemented today. Note that cloud tools is different from "clouds" in that you use the tools to build/automate your cloud. Things like infrastructure stack software, orchestration, configuration management, etc. fall into the category of cloud tools. There are three primary markets I am seeing today.... Continue Reading →