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You may have missed it in the flurry of news from Apple, but VMware recently had their annual get-together at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. On stage VMware shared two key insights: successful virtualization is becoming more about orchestration and automation than about hypervisors.  And, private clouds will rapidly develop into hybrid clouds. IContinue reading “VMworld 2010. Two trends and how they converge.”

Sure, it may all happen, but expect a similar timeframe as for the paperless office This post originaly was published as column at ITSMportal Predicting the future is a lot more fun than analyzing the past, but as Mel Brooks might say “A funny thing happened on the way to the future; it changed fromContinue reading “End of Outsourcing, Death of the Web, Self Managing Clouds? Not so fast, just yet!”

It seems like every week another sizing of the cloud market is published, and – maybe as to be expected – none of them seem to agree. Let’s have a look at who is saying what, and whether we are comparing apples to apples, or apples and oranges. We will start by looking at SaaS.Continue reading “Can the Real Cloud Market Size Please Stand Up?”

With security and legal concerns being slowly addressed by the industry, lock-in and standards are rapidly becoming the biggest concerns regarding cloud computing. If the cloud industry is to make good on its promise, these will need to somehow be addressed. Let’s examine some recent developments. Interesting to see how, just a week after myContinue reading “On Cloud Lock-in, Standards, Decoupling and why SaaS does not scale”

This blog originally was published at ITSMportal.com on July 14st , 2010 IT vendor lock-in is as old as the IT industry itself. Some may even argue that lock-in is unavoidable when using any IT solution, regardless of whether we use it “on premise” or “as a service”. To determine whether this is the case,Continue reading “Vendor lock-in and cloud computing”

In 1943 former IBM president Thomas J. Watson allegedly *1 said: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers”. Will cloud computing prove Watson to be right after all? Anyone who visited a computer-, internet- or mobile-conference in recent years, is likely to have been privy to someone quoting Watson. Most often toContinue reading “Might the cloud prove Thomas J. Watson right after all?”

We have been running the Cloud Academy roundtables in several European countries. I’d like to share some of the more interesting questions, debates and insights around a number of topics, starting today with RAIC—Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Cloud Services. Other topics will include: A TV industry analogy: Competition for the IT department Cloud Shortcuts: CanContinue reading “Notes from the Cloud Academy: RAIC – Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Cloud services”

This blog features both under our Service Management and Portfolio Management sections and revolves around a video we created earlier this year. In the video a demand manager tries to convince an operations manager of the benefits of a portfolio approach. The operations manager is not easy to convince as he feels his approach ofContinue reading “Service Portfolio Management or How Cloud Computing puts an end to bottoms up Service Management”

At the end of the year – and in this case the end of a decade – I thought it made sense to look back at what has been and try and predict what may be. Many already have named 2010 the year of Cloud Computing, so I decided to call on Google Trends toContinue reading “Cloudy Xmas cards and new year’s predictions”

Last month InformationWeek’s Bob Evans started a contest asking their readership to come up with a better name for “Cloud Computing”. Reason was that the CEO’s of both HP and IBM recently expressed some discontent with the current name. Something about “Cloudy not being clear enough”. Not clear enough for what, for justifying really largeContinue reading “Cloud Computing becomes Cool Computing?”