Tag: cloud computing
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Kibitzing about the Cloud: Ellison goes off
At last year’s Oracle financial meeting, Larry Ellison went on rant on the over-hyping of the term “cloud computing:” I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no…
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Talking to Ken O. about Egenera, the cloud and Dell
Last but not least in my series of video’s from last month’s Cloud World/Open Source World I present to you Ken Oestreich, VP of Product marketing at Egenera. I grabbed some time with Ken to learn about Engenera, the cloud and how they’re working with Dell. Some of the topics that Ken tackles: While a…
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Cloud Tamer: Right Scale’s CEO Michael Crandell
I’m getting down to the end of the videos I recorded last month at Cloud World/Open Source World and I’ve saved some of the best for last. My penultimate interview is with Michael Crandell, CEO of Right Scale. Right Scale, based in sunny Santa Barbara California, makes a cloud management platform that provides greater control…
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CEO of GoGrid: IT economy to shrink (big time) over next 10 years
The CEO and founder of GoGrid, John Keagy, made an interesting assertion at Cloud World/Open Source World: over the next decade, the IT economy will shrink from $1.5 trillion to $500 billion. I thought this was an interesting statement so I followed up with him after his talk and we sat down for a quick…
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Dell makes list of top 10 vendors shaping the Cloud
I was perusing John Willis’ list of links yesterday and I came across a cool piece done by Datamation.com entitled, 85 Cloud Computing Vendors Shaping the Emerging Cloud. No turning back The article which supplies short profiles of 85 cloud players, isn’t wishy-washy about what it believes is the inevitability of the cloud model. While…
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Talking to the Cloud’s Puppet Master: Luke Kanies
Reductive Labs, the company behind Puppet, recently received $2 million in funding. Puppet, a framework for automating system administration across the network at scale, allows an admin to build and configure a passel of servers in a period of hours rather than months. Earlier this month at Cloud World/Open Source World I sat down with…
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Forrester’s James Staten Explains the Cloud
At Cloud World/Open Source World earlier this month I grabbed some time with Forrester’s “Mr. Cloud” James Staten. I wanted to get his take on Cloud Computing and what was hot and what is not. Here is the result. Some of the things James talks about: How the conversation about cloud has changed over the…
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Storage in the Cloud — talking to Zmanda’s CEO
I first met Chander Kant, CEO of open source cloud back provider Zmanda, last year at the MySQL conference. At that time we did an audio interview. Just like Jonathan, this time around I caught him on “film.” This is the fourth out of nine interviews I conducted earlier this month at Cloud World/Open Source…
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Talking to the Co-Founder of Rackspace Cloud
Earlier this month at Cloud World/Open World I bumped into Jonathan Bryce one of the two founders of the cloud platform formerly known as “Mosso” (now known as Rackspace Cloud). Last year when I interviewed Jonathan, I did an audio podcast. This time around I was armed with my Flip Mino and caught it all on…
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The Cloudy Wisdom of James Urquhart
James Urquhart of Cisco and author of “The Wisdom of Clouds” blog on Cnet, gave a talk last week at Cloud World entitled, “Virtualization to Cloud.” I wanted to capture some of the topics he talked about and learn a bit more so I grabbed him for a podcast after he got off stage. Here is the…
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Brian Aker discusses Drizzle, DB for the Cloud
On the first day of Open Source World/Cloud World/Etc World I attended Brian Aker’s talk entitled “Drizzle, Rethinking MySQL for the Web.” For those not in the know, Drizzle is a reworking of the MySQL database to slim it down and make it more appropriate for web-infrastructure and cloud computing . I caught up with…
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Back from Cloud World with a Bunch of Interviews
Last week I headed out to San Francisco to attend the event formerly known as Linux World. This year the annual fete was renamed “OpenSource World” and combined with a few other events to form: “OpenSource World/Next Generation DataCenter/Cloud World/North American Bass Fishing World” (ok, Im joking about the last one). Dell kicked it off…
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My first week at Dell
This afternoon I finished my first week at Dell. Needless to say it was a bit of whirlwind, but hey, I haven’t quit yet :). I spent the week trying to get set up — fighting with printers, getting used to Microsoft Vista, figuring out how to put my laptop to sleep etc. — as…
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Dude, I’m going to Dell!
Monday morning I’m starting a new gig. I will be joining Dell as their cloud computing evangelist. So what’s that mean? As the cloud computing evangelist I will act as Dell’s ambassador to the cloud computing community (not sure if the sash is provided or if I have to supply my own). I will also…
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3 Reasons Public Clouds will Dominate: Developers, Developers, Developers
In a post at the end of last month, Frank Gens of IDC explained that, cloud concerns notwithstanding, within a few years the Public Cloud will be a humongous source of IT services. The reason for the popularity of the public cloud will be the same reason any platform is successful: the apps. And who’s…
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Internal Clouds? We don’t need no Stinking Internal Clouds
The other day, I came across an entry on CIO.com discussing a recent Forrester report. The report, snappily entitled “Conventional Wisom is Wrong About Cloud IAAS,” details the results of a recent survey administered to small and large enterprises located in the Europe and North America. The survey’s key findings were: Confirmation of a strong…
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Rackspace goes down (2X), their President steps up
If you’ve been following the cloud space at all you’ll know that hosting provider Rackspace recently lost power twice within a span of 10 days. As NetworkWorld explained: Power outages on June 29 and July 7 hit Rackspace’s 144,000-square-foot data center in the Dallas suburb of Grapevine. Rackspace operates nine data centers worldwide for about…
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Volume Servers: It’s the Software Stupid
Earlier this week I read an interesting entry from former Sun compadre Ken Oestreich. Ken’s piece entitled, “Why (and How) Low-Cost Servers Will Dominate — Or, why high-end servers will be obviated by software…” explains: The age of high-end, super-redundant, high-reliability servers is slowly coming to an end. They’re being replaced by volume servers and…
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Stephen O’Grady on Red Monk — The Un-Analysts
Last week at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston I caught with Stephen O’Grady, co-founder of analyst firm Red Monk. I’ve always been very impressed with this boutique firm whose influence on their clients and other analysts, seems inversely proportional to their size (they are now up to a whopping four analysts). I’ve split our chat in…
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James Duncan: From Reasonably Smart to Joyent
I’m attending Enterprise 2.0 here in Boston and although it’s relatively small, I’m finding it pretty interesting. Case in point, James Duncan, Joyent‘s Director of platform strategy. James is staffing Joyent’s pod at the event and an hour ago I dragged him away for a quick podcast. Some of the topics James tackles: How James…