I was speaking with some folks in the cloud services game the other day about the state of the industry and the key theme in our conversation was that it’s absolutely a land grab out there. Cloud is a…
I’ve written a lot lately about the need for cloud vendors to provide services that are tailored to specific countries or regions. Whether this is due to cross-cultural reasons or merely because of concerns around US located data, as…
[Update – it turns out Acclipse have purchased an existing product with some 5 years development and the partnership with BankLink is for the bank feed part of the deal. I’ll try and get my hands on the client…
Ever since is launched, Nimbula has been focused on brining “Amazon-like” functionality to private data centers. There messaging has unwaveringly been about the agility and flexibility of the public cloud, for private data center operations. Their aim came another…
Recently I spent a remarkably enjoyable hour chatting with Steve Gillmor and John Taschek on a special enterprise-focused Gillmor Gang. Somehow I was roped in to be the provocateur and judging by many of the comments on the back…
Service providers have an important role in helping drive the adoption of cloud computing. Part of ensuring that service providers are able to do this requires giving them a tool set that eases the creation of cloud services that…
Excuse the slightly cataclysmic title of this post, but the first post for 2012 in the CloudU notebook series is one which hopefully will get you thinking about your career and the changes it is going to undergo over…
Recently OASIS standards body started work on the proposed Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (or TOSCA) for short, standards specification. The standard aims to deliver on the long-heralded, but much disputed concept of cloud bursting – the…
In my travels speaking with organizations looking to move to the Cloud, I’m often confronted by folks who have an innate distrust of all things Cloud. These folks are easy to deals with; I respect their opinion (despite entirely…
It’s always interesting to watch companies looking to move from their “traditional” approach of software delivery to living in the cloud. One company I’ve had a first hand glimpse of making that shift is MYOB (see disclosure). In its…