I got a chance to spend time with James Duncan and Bryan Bogensberger of Joyent at #e2conf today. I've always been a little bit cloudy on what Joyent actually does. Their Web site (which is getting a makeover) is not all that clear today. Let's take a look at their stack as they described it... Continue Reading →
The diagram below gives a bit of insight into where IBM is today and where they are heading. I posted this last week, but removed the diagram at IBM's Request. Now I'm reposting it after seeing Sean Poulay from IBM presented the chart at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston.
In a stunning infringement, IBM has released a video about the story of Seamus McManus, the Al Gore of Cloud Computing (e.g. he invented it). For some reason, IBM chose to have Seamus be a beekeeper, and they show bees in the video. This is an outrage! CloudBzz has retained the legal services of Dewey,... Continue Reading →
The NY Times broke IBM's embargo this morning by publishing their story on IBM's new cloud computing initiatives. I've posted the full release here on CloudBzz. The diagram below gives a bit of insight into where IBM is today and where they are heading. {Diagram removed at IBM's Request - not sure why they sent... Continue Reading →
One of the core predicates to true enteprise cloud computing is manageability. Enterprise IT organizations don't like surprises, especially the kind that start with an executive calling them about an application failure before they know about it. That's why services like Tap In Systems are going to be critical to enterprise cloud adoption. Tap In... Continue Reading →
This is a close to actual quote of John Landry, former CTO of Lotus (and a lot of other stuff) at last week's MassTLC unConference on the Future of Software and the Internet. This comment came in one of the breakouts on #CloudComputing led by Judith Hurwitz. John was objecting to the use of the... Continue Reading →
Steve Hamm (@stevehamm31) of BusinessWeek got a big article on #cloudcomputing into last week's issue. It rightly points out that cloud computing is the big thing and will keep us busy for the next 10 years. Unfortunately, a lot of the article is misleading or missing key context. His first example cited is Avon's use... Continue Reading →
Earlier today I received a call from a friend in the IT outsourcing business with deep contacts on Wall Street. We had a great discussion regarding financial services and cloud computing. Neither of us had any first-hand evidence of any wide-scale cloud activity in the financial markets, banking or insurance. That led us to a... Continue Reading →
A few days ago, NASA announced their enterprise computing cloud, NEBULA. As importantly, they announced that the NEBULA cloud framework was to be released as an open source project. In NASA's own words, NEBULA "provides high-capacity computing, storage and network connectivity, and uses a virtualized, scalable approach to achieve cost and energy efficiencies." Here is... Continue Reading →
Christopher Crowhurst, Thomson Reuters's vice president and chief architect for infrastructure was interviewed for an article in The Industry Standard regarding his plans to implement storage and server virtualization on a global level. With 20,000 servers and over 6.5 petabytes of storage today, Thomson Reuters is a great candidate for virtualization. One of his... Continue Reading →
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