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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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  • Cloud 2020 Summit – Apply to Attend Now!

    April 10, 2013

    Business
    #cloud2020, amazon web services, cloud computing, data center, Krishnan Subramanian, Las Vegas, OpenStack, Rishidot Research, VMware
     

    Sometimes in the day to day discussions of product announcements, funding activity and M&A froth we miss the opportunity to take a deep look at what the future looks like. This is especially so in the infrastructure space where…

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  • Tensions in the Cloud Foundry Camp–On the Problems with Forks

    February 27, 2013

    Business
    Cloudfoundry, Krishnan Subramanian, Linus Torvalds, Open source, OpenStack, platform services, Stephen O’Grady, VMware
     

    Let there be no doubt, open source projects are hard. Balancing central control while still allowing individual members a degree of autonomy is like walking a tightrope – too much control and it looks like a dictatorship, too little…

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  • The Cloud Industry, What I Do and My Motivators – Part One

    January 10, 2013

    Business
    adoption, Business, cloud computing, dropbox, Information technology, Krishnan Subramanian, Server Message Block, VMware
     

    A little while ago I spent some time having a broad ranging talk with Jacob Gardner of Logicworks about what I do and why I do it. As I head off on a family vacation, I wanted to take…

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  • Open Discussions On Open Cloud

    October 26, 2012

    Business
    cloud, Jonathan Bryce, Krish, Krishnan Subramanian, opensource, OpenStack, Rackspace Cloud, Rishidot Research
     

    As I go from conference to conference, I’m seeing more and more examples of people talking about the “open cloud.” Proponents talk about choice, flexibility and the inherent safety of the open cloud. Opponents, on the other hand, point…

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  • On Open Source Cloud Adoption

    October 3, 2012

    Business
    gartner, Krishnan Subramanian, Open source, OpenStack, rackspace, RedMonk
     

    Last week Lydia Leong from Gartner published an analyst report with some opinions on Open Stack. I’ve been critical in the past about traditional analyst firms and I’ve also gone on record as being positive about open source (and,…

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  • Diversity Analysis Becomes Diversity Limited–What’s In a Name?

    September 4, 2012

    Business
    Business, cloudcomputing, Diversity Limited, Krishnan Subramanian, Organization, Rishidot Research, techcrunch, Technology
     

    For awhile now I’ve been thinking about how best to describe what I “do”. I run Diversity, a pretty diverse (hence the name) operation which covers a bunch of different things – I spend time evangelizing about Cloud Computing,…

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  • A Conversation on Open Cloud–Google+ Hangout

    August 31, 2012

    Business
    CloudOpen, Diversity Limited, Jonathan Bryce, Krishnan Subramanian, opensource, OpenStack, Rackspace Cloud, YouTube
     

    The discussion around open versus closed in the cloud is reaching fever pitch but what does it all mean? Many people have but the loosest understanding of what open cloud means and the differences between open source, open clouds…

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  • OpenStack Seeing the Light of General Availability

    August 7, 2012

    Business
    Application programming interface, hewlett packard, Krishnan Subramanian, Morphlabs, OpenStack, OSCON, rackspace, techcrunch
     

    The last few weeks have been interesting around the OpenStack ecosystem. We’ve had HP moving object storage and Cloud CDN to general availability. We had Morphlabs introduce an interesting combined hardware and software offering called mCloud Helix. The product…

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