Blog Archives

The Value Lies Further Up the Stack – Business bricks as a Service

August 12, 2013

Business

AWS, cloud computing, John Engates, Jonathan Murray, Platform as a service, Savvis, Software as a Service, Warner Music Group

In The other day Twitter was all a flutter with news that AWS had, once again, slashed its EC2 pricing. Regardless of the veracity of the actual percentage reduction – and Rackspace CTO John Engates in particular came out…

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On the Stackholm Syndrome – And in Defense of Traditional IT Vendors

July 19, 2013

Business

Alan Trefler, Business, Chief technology officer, Information technology, Jonathan Murray, Om Malik, Stockholm Syndrome, Warner Music Group

Now I’m the first to criticize traditional IT vendors – for too long I’ve heard the horror stories of failed deployments, time and cost over runs, massive maintenance fees and the like. There’s no denying that traditional vendors can,…

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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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Cloud 2020 Agenda Announced – Apply Now for Last Places!

May 2, 2013

Business

#cloud2020, Cloud 2020 Summit, cloud computing, Cloudscaling, data center, DevOps, Jonathan Murray, Krishnan Subramanian, Rodrigo Flores

Next week sees my friend Krishnan Subramanian and I put on the Cloud 2020 Summit in Vegas. The summit is an exclusive look at the future of cloud infrastructure – it’s going to bring together pundits, vendors and enterprise…

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Blog Archives

The Value Lies Further Up the Stack – Business bricks as a Service

On the Stackholm Syndrome – And in Defense of Traditional IT Vendors

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

Cloud 2020 Agenda Announced – Apply Now for Last Places!