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  • On Cloud Brokers and Whether they have a Future (Pun Intended)

    July 3, 2013

    Business
    cloud computing, Cloudscaling, Futures exchange, James Urquhart, Jonathan Murray, Krishnan Subramanian, San Francisco, TechStars
     

    While in San Francisco recently I chaired a debate to look at whether there is in fact a future in cloud futures. The debate was an event from the Cloud Market Forum, an initiative that I’m on the steering…

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  • Who Said Dell is Dead? Enstratius Acquisition and Boomi API Management Play Suggest Reinvention is in Progress

    May 7, 2013

    Business
    Alcatel Lucent, BMC, Boomi, Dell, Enstratius, James Urquhart, Mashery, OpenStack, Simon Wardley
     

    Yesterday Jo Maitland, GigaOm Pro Analyst, published a pretty damning post in which she characterized both Dell and BMC as, essentially, the living dead. Her view was that the move to privatize the companies (a done deal for BMC,…

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  • Saasu Drops Freemium–Some Users Balk at the Change

    January 7, 2013

    Business
    cloud computing, google, James Urquhart, Lance Walley, New Years Eve, SaaSu, Sam Johnston, Software as a Service
     

    On New Years Eve, while on a holiday skiing trip in the French Alps, expat Aussie and Clouderati ringleader Sam Johnston wrote a series of tweets exclaiming his anger about a change that cloud accounting vendor Saasu had made…

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  • Cloud is Simple. Well, It’s Real Complex but that Complexity Can, and Should, be Hidden from Users.

    February 15, 2012

    Business
    Application programming interface, cloudcomputing, Information technology, James Urquhart, linkedin, Sam Johnston
     

    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-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what…

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  • Cloudology–All That is Bad About IT

    December 2, 2011

    Business
    cloudcomputing, James Urquhart, Service Management, Simon Wardley, Software as a Service, twitter, Wardley, Werner Vogels
     

    I haven’t got a lifetime’s experience in IT. Rather than an impediment in my career however, I’ve found that having come from a varied background has given me a degree of perspective that perhaps some of my lifers don’t…

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  • enStratus–Big Names, Big Money

    November 3, 2011

    Business
    Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, enStratus, George Reese, James Urquhart, John Willis, OpenStack
     

    News yesterday that cloud governance and management vendor enStratus (more on them here) has raised a cool $4.5M in a funding round that includes El Dorado ventures. The SEC filing is for an initial $3.5M but reliable sources tell me…

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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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