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What 21st Century Bit Factories can learn from 20th Century Widget Factories
I’ve written before that in today’s digital economy, I consider data centers to be “21st Century Bit Factories”. They are this century’s engine that drives knowledge, commerce, communications,...
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Enterprise Cloud Management – Still a Wide-Open Game
Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the Twitter echo chamber , believing that whatever is good for Google, Facebook or NetFlix must also be good for your Enterprise environment. All new...
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Is IT the Last Major Open-Source Project?
Traditionally, internal IT organizations have leveraged proprietary software and public Internet services have been built using open-source software. Some of this behavior was driven by legacy...
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Understanding Cloud Computing Forecasts
As the market for Cloud Computing products and services evolves, the stakes for success or failure (for companies, vendors, integrators, etc.) continue to rise. With that in mind, the amount of...
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IT Evolution follows Historical Patterns
This past week, a colleague asked a commonly heard question these days: Jason Edelman works for a well-known VAR (Value-Added Reseller), with a deep technical focus on emerging networking technologies...
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Software-Defined vs. Services-Defined
In the fall of 2012, VMware announced their “Software Defined Data Center” strategy. It articulated a new plan to help IT organizations become more <agile, nimble, responsive, frugal, insert...
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Will DevOps fix Enterprise Clouds?
I’ve written before that I’m not entirely convinced that the “Build Your Own Cloud” movement is going to be entirely successful, especially if the goal is to enable IT as a Service instead of just...
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New Cloud Ops Model: GUIs vs. APIs
The past 4-5 years have forced IT organizations to go through some significant changes as the pace of technology has accelerated greater than ever before. Virtualized resources, converged...
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Change Culture or Move Elsewhere – The IT Decision of the 201x’s
In the real world, there are the seven George Carlin words that if said will make people uncomfortable, especially if used with the wrong audience or in the wrong context. In the IT world, those words...
View ArticleCloud Means Change and Opportunity – If You Want It.
When we were recording Eps.100 of The Cloudcast, which was during VMworld 2013, a discussion came up about why people may have hesitations about Cloud Computing. We jokingly called the segment, “Why...
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Will Developer Preferences Hold PaaS Back?
[Photo Credit: @aneel; Piston Cloud Computing]There’s a interesting duality to developers, especially those that subscribe to the evolutionary model known as “DevOps” which is popular among those...
View ArticleThoughts from AWS re:Invent 2013
It’s been a couple hectic weeks since the AWS re:Invent conference, enough time to process what was announced and what has become one of the major cloud computing events in our industry (some would say...
View ArticleThe Rise of the SaaS Management Tools
One of the biggest takeaways I had from the 2013 AWS re:Invent conference was the increasing number of companies that were delivering various forms of IT management (network monitoring, application...
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The Ebbs and Flows of OpenStack
Nothing creates more opinions in the Cloud Computing industry than OpenStack. More that Predictions about “Year of VDI” or “What is SDN?” or “Cloud vs. Cloudwashing”. Nothing. In my 20+ years in the IT...
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Three Improvements Needed for Cloud Computing in 2014
On-Demand, Self-Service access to IT resources. That’s the promise of Cloud Computing. It’s a reality that has been coming together for the past 5-7 years. At times we marvel at the pace of change that...
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Developers don’t Want to Take a Bath
You hear that? It’s the sound of frustrated developers and SysAdmins. The groups that are on the shop floors of 21st century bit factories, trying to keep things running more quickly and more smoothly....
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Will IaaS+ Happen Before PaaS?
Many years ago, NIST set out to define Cloud Computing. In doing so, they laid out a stacked model of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. The leading public provider is lumped into the IaaS category, but offers many...
View ArticleWhat is Hybrid Cloud?
Before getting into any technology discussions/definition about Hybrid Cloud, it’s important to understand what value it potentially provides to businesses. In the most basic definition, “hybrid” means...
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Learning Cloud Has Never Been Easier
When I got into the technical side of the IT industry back in the 1990s, there was a company just down the street that was starting to gain some traction – RedHat – and they were pushing this new...
View ArticleDevOps Skills are Highest in Demand
One of the most interesting things about doing The Cloudcast (podcast) is the variety of topics we get to discuss and the perspectives from people across our industry. Over the past few weeks, we’ve...
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