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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”

In my last post I covered the concept of fabric computing and why it matters in the world of cloud computing.  With a “fabric” approach towards creating a cloud application, we include the virtual compute, storage and network components inside a fully software-based model of the service. This is distinctly different from a more traditionalContinue reading “More on fabric computing in the cloud”

The term fabric computing is gaining rapid popularity, but currently mostly within the hardware community. In fact, according to a recent report, over 50% of attendees at the recent Datacenter Summit had implemented, or are in the process of implementing, fabric computing. Time to take a look at what fabric computing means for software andContinue reading “Is fabric computing the future of cloud?”

A framework applicable beyond government and geographies The decision framework for cloud migration that US Federal CIO Vivek Kundra recently published as part of his Federal cloud computing strategy, offers advice applicable to all organizations. In my last blog, a cloud of two speeds, I mentioned Vivek Kundra’s very readable cloud strategy and the industryContinue reading “Vivek Kundra’s decision framework for cloud migration”

Cloud computing is gaining rapid acceptance, but not everywhere. Governments across Europe – in what many call “the old countries” –  are still remarkably conservative or even reluctant to embrace cloud computing.  This week President Obama organized a dinner with the CEO’s of 12 high-tech and cloud companies to stimulate job creation in North America,Continue reading “A Cloud of two speeds: Europe vs. America”