Category Archives: Cloud

This week the Gartner Symposium visited an unexpectedly sunny Barcelona. This year’s theme for the Gartner Symposium is  “Re-imagine IT” and how the forces of Cloud, Social, Information (incl. big data) and Mobile are forming a nexus (Websters: a connected group or series) of change, see the bottom of this post for a link toContinue reading “Cloud in one hundred days (and nights)”

The public cloud infrastructure as a service market is developing quickly, also in Europe. Over the past months we saw the number of international IaaS providers setting up shop in Europe increase, while also several European based providers launched new or upgraded offerings. To keep a finger on the pulse of developments we started, asContinue reading “Using a cloud service to … collect information on European cloud infrastructure services”

Earlier this week Yahoo Finance ran an article on the 10 most hated jobs (based on a survey asking hundreds of thousands of employees at a major career site). What amazed me most – apart from the large number of IT jobs, including the top one,  making the list – was that I personally wasContinue reading “Of these 10 most hated jobs, how many did you have?”

First post from my new base blogs.gartner.com. When looking at public cloud infrastructure as a service it is fair to say that, with some notable exceptions, most off the larger scale activities, initiatives and even the majority of excitement and buzz around this phenomena so far originated outside of Europe. Understandable, as both the largest and mostContinue reading “Travelling at the speed of cloud in Europe”

Having just returned a scorching hot New York (host of CloudExpo East 2011) to a definitely cooler Europe, it makes sense to see whether these differences in temperature also apply to the cloud market. This 8th Expo was the third cloud expo I was invited to speak at and it definitely was the biggest soContinue reading “Did the global summer of cloud start in NYC?”

In IT we like to use fancy words like architecture, governance and strategy, but is our approach to IT innovations indeed as structured and planned as these terms imply or is IT in many cases just like real life: IT is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans? And if yes, doesContinue reading “Don’t let the cloud creep up on you! (also not at Cloud Expo NYC next week)”

The ultimate dream of any marketer is to have its brand become a verb. “Let me quickly Xerox that”, “I Fedexed it to you yesterday”, “I just Googled it”. In cloud computing I do not see that happening any time soon. At least I haven’t heard anyone say they Amazoned their intranet or forced theirContinue reading “To cloud or to compute, that’s the question”

The Kuppinger Cole European Identity Conference 2011 (EIC), which was held in Munich earlier this month, truly represented a ‘Who’s Who’ of cloud initiatives and standards.  Representatives from many influential, established and aspiring standards and industry bodies were on hand to showcase progress of the security initiatives currently in the works. The number of initiativesContinue reading “In cloud standards, it’s all about survival of the fittest”

Some blogs percolate for a while, waiting for a good day to be put to paper. For this one – about the cost of reliable cloud – that day was last Thursday, the day a network mishap caused an outage at Amazon Web Services taking down more than 100 customers, many of which cloud providersContinue reading “April 21, the day the cloud was out!”

Over the last 18 months, the media, technologists, analysts, CIOs and CEOs have all been talking about the cloud. Now, most organizations are embarking on some form of cloud computing, but as always, technology is the relatively easy part. For those of you wanting to keep your feet firmly on the ground, and looking toContinue reading “5 Simple Rules for Creating a Cloud Strategy”