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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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