by Ben Grubin Whether you have a handful of applications of thousands of them, if some are not already running the cloud the idea has likely been discussed. Most people agree there are large numbers of applications that should be relatively easy to migrate to cloud infrastructure, yet most still haven't made the jump to... Continue Reading →
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Here is a video of me discussing the current state of cloud providers and where the industry is going live inside theCUBE with Wikibon’s John Furrier and Stu Miniman from the floor of EMC World 2013 in Las Vegas. Thank you to ServiceMesh for inviting me to speak. (c) 2013 John Treadway / CloudBzz /... Continue Reading →
My favorite and least favorite question I get is the same - "Can you help me build a business case and ROI for cloud computing?" Well, yes... and no. The issue is that cloud computing has such a massive impact on how IT is delivered that many of the metrics and KPIs that are typically... Continue Reading →
I will make this simple. There is only one question you need to ask yourself or your IT department to determine if what you have is really an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud. Can I get a VM in 5-10 minutes? Perhaps a little bit more detailed? Can a properly credentialed user, with a legitimate need for cloud... Continue Reading →
After spending time at VMware and Cloud Expo last week, I believe that VMware's lack of full backing for Cloud Foundry software is holding back the entire PaaS market in the enterprise. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of momentum in PaaS despite how very immature the market is. But this momentum is in... Continue Reading →
VMware has applied to join the OpenStack Foundation, potentially giving the burgeoning open source cloud stack movement a huge dose of credibility in the enterprise. There are risks to the community in VMware’s involvement, of course, but on the balance this could be a pivotal event. There is an alternative explanation, which I will hit... Continue Reading →
Google launched their new "Google Compute Engine" yesterday at I/O. Here's more info about GCE on the Google Developer's Blog, and a nice analysis by Ben Kepes on CloudAve. If "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" then it's clear the guys at Google hold the Amazon Web Services EC2 in very high regard. In... Continue Reading →
Red Hat has ben making steady progress toward what is shaping up as a fairly interesting cloud strategy. Building on their Deltacloud API abstraction layer and their CloudForms IaaS software, a hybrid cloud model is starting to emerge. Add to this their OpenShift PaaS system, and you can see that Red Hat is assembling a... Continue Reading →
I have been having a great debate with one of my colleagues about the changing role of the IT operations (aka "I&O") function in the context of PaaS. Nobody debates that I&O is responsible and accountable for infrastructure operations. Application developers (with or without the blessing of Enterprise Architecture) select platform components such as application... Continue Reading →
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