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Application Portability–An Ever More Crowded Space

March 25, 2013

Business

Christian Reilly, cloud computing, CloudSwitch, Google Ventures, Ravello, RightScale, Sun Microsystems, VMware

Every time I start to use the term “cloud bursting”, friend and Clouderati ringleader Christian Reilly’s eyes start to roll and he makes comments about the illusory nature of the term – in his view, true application portability that…

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Required Reading – The Promise of the Internet of Things

January 8, 2013

Business

Business, Christian Reilly, Future, General Electric, Internet of Things, Sustainability, Technology, Wi-Fi

My friends and respected technologists Christian Reilly and Justin Burleigh are often to be found deep in discussion while cradling a pint of Stella. Often these discussions point to what they sees as the big mid-term opportunity for the…

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CloudSigma and the Perils of Choice

September 28, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, Bechtel, Central processing unit, Chief technology officer, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, CloudSigma, Random-access memory

As we move to broader scale cloud adoption, one would be excused for assuming that we’d reached a point where the definition of what constitutes infrastructure as a service is set in stone – true different vendors package up…

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Software Is Eating The World, And APIs Are The Fuel For That

September 24, 2012

Business

Apigee, Application programming interface, Bechtel, Business, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, enterprise 2.0, Steven Willmott

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can…

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On Cloud Outages (Yeah, They Happen)

August 8, 2012

Business

amazon web services, AWS, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, data center, enStratus, George Reese, NetworkWorld

Recently the world went wild when Amazon Web Services suffered an extended service outage. I’m not going to make a song and dance about AWS’ woes – suffice it to say that every provider, Cloud or otherwise, has outages.…

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VMware Acquires DynamicOps–Quick Analysis

July 2, 2012

Business

amazon web services, BMC, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, Dell, DynamicOps, RightScale, VMware

News this morning that VMware has acquired DynamicOps for a reported $100-$150M price tag. DynamicOps is a provider of IT management services that (and this is the important bit) span heterogeneous environments. It comes the same day Dell finally…

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Cloud Surveys, and Extrapolating Out to Disruption

June 20, 2012

Business

Business, Christian Reilly, cloudcamp, cloudcomputing, e-commerce, OpenStack, Platform as a service, Software as a Service

The other day a minor storm broke out amongst the clouderati that had its genesis in a post Krishnan wrote looking at who is likely to disrupt AWS (teaser – PaaS from one end and alternative IaaS operating systems…

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Public Cloud/Private Cloud–A Redux

May 31, 2011

Business

Adrian Cockroft, Chris Hoff, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, James Urquhart, Netflix

While being an advocate and evangelist for all things cloud, and all things public cloud for that matter, I’m also a pragmatist. Private cloud, while not meeting some theoretical utopian ideal, has value and validity and is driving benefits…

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