Cloud architecture: What is the difference between a cloud broker and a cloud provider? Recently, I have done a deep dive into the NIST cloud definitions, as we are revising the cloud computing course Cloud Technogy Associate. The NIST definitions identify a number of actors in the cloud ecosystem (see NIST SP500-292 Cloud Computing Reference […]
So what is2012 going to bring to IT? For about a decade I have predicted the growth ofwhat we now call cloud computing. After some false starts, hiccups, unrealisticexpectations, disillusionments and concerns about safety and what have you not,it is finally coming. In 2011 cloud computing was on the evening news and inall the papers. […]
Wrapping up in Copenhagen, where I did another Train the Trainer session for the Cloud Essentials and Virtualisation Essentials courses. Another fine round of candidates!
At the recentCMG’11 annual conference of the ComputerMeasurement Group (seewww.cmg.org) I caught up with Michael Salsburg, who talked about private cloud computing. Michael Salsburg is the Chief Architect for Cloud Solutions at Unisys, you will find his LinkedIn profile here. Being the chief cloud architect puts him in a perfect position to understand customer needs around cloud computing. […]
The financial crisis that is running around Europe and spreading to the rest of theworld will also be a very big test for IT systems. Review the lessons learned from the Argentina banking crisis, 10 years ago. Listen to Fernando Martinez as he sees a very striking and unnerving similarity between Argentina then, and Europe […]
A few blocks from my home there is a sushi restaurant. The other day, when I went there for some take-out food, I met a parent from the elementary school of my kids, with his daughter. I hardly recognized her, because it had been a couple of years. He still looks familiar, because I pass […]
As I am sipping on my café americano in the Starbucks near the Friedrichstrasse railway station in Berlin, waiting for my travel back home, I look back on 3 days of Velocity Europe. Velocity is where developers and managers of large websites meet. We are talking seriously large websites here. The word most appropriate to […]
An interesting discussion is going on. Will Cloud Computing increase or decrease the number of IT people? We don’t know, the only thing we are pretty sure of is that the types of skills will be different. This article in PC world “The IT Jobs Cloud Computing Will Create” gives some fundamental reasoning, and also […]
Yesterday I had the opportunity to present at the Dutch Tooling Event.The presentation was about how service management frameworks such as ITIL could be applied to cloud computing. We have just begun to scratch the surface on that. The presentation has some introductory material on cloud computing and then shows how cloud computing changes the […]