These days when people describe cloud computing you’ll often hear them dividing it into three basic groups: Application Clouds (aka Software as a Service or SaaS) Platform Clouds (aka Platform as a Service or PaaS) Infrastructure Clouds (aka Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS) Besides self-interest (a cloud-based app helps me pay my bills), I…
Yesterday, Dave Marquard posted a cool video on the Lombardi blog that provides a great introduction to Blueprint. The video, which is less than three minutes long, was created by Nachi Chidambaram, a Lombardi Business Process Management Analyst. Check it out below. For those who prefer to read — Spoiler Alert! The video starts out by showing…
When I attended the RackSpace Customer event back at the end of September I was impressed with the talk that Paul Bell of Dell gave (Paul reports to CEO Michael Dell and is responsible for all business operations for Dell in North and South America). Dell and the Cloud(s) (sources: my hand + the football…
At the Rackspace Customer Event the week before last, I caught up with Mosso co-founder Jonathan Bryce. Jonathan walked me through how Mosso, now officially a Rackspace division, got started and where he sees it going. Take a listen: >> My chat with Jonathan (10:52): Listen (mp3) Listen (ogg) Jonathan chillin’ in the Baroque Westin…
Last week I attended the Rackspace customer event down in San Antonio. On the first day of the event I was able to grab sometime with Rackspace’s CEO, Lanham Napier. We chatted about going public, the company’s recent acquisitions and its foray into the cloud via Mosso. Take a listen: >> My Interview with Lanham…
Last week I attended the Rackspace Customer Event (Lombardi Blueprint is hosted at Rackspace) down on the Riverwalk in San Antonio. It was a great event and I sat in on some cool talks as well as grabbed some time with several of the Rackspace execs. Later this week and/or early next week I will…
Yesterday at PDC, the big Microsoft developer fest, Ray Ozzie got up and announced the beta launch of Windows Azure, Microsoft’s entry into the cloud computing arena. (It may be beta but you’ll notice they already have a snazzy logo) This wasn’t a big surprise to anyone since they had been doing some saber-rattling in…
Yesterday a little before noon I jumped in my car and headed to UT to attend the Rackspace Cloud Event. It was held on campus in the same building that “hosts” (bad pun intended) the local NPR station as well as the studio that Austin City Limits is filmed in. It was this studio that…
The great thing about cloud-based applications is that it doesn’t matter what they’re written in or how they’re constructed, all that matters is that they do what you need them to. What’s the back-end of your phone system written in? Odds are you don’t know and don’t care. That being said, there are group of…
If a pictures is worth a 1,000 words, how many words is a 1 minute and 39 second-you tube video worth? See for yourself. Below is a clip that introduces the viewer to Lombardi Blueprint, the cloud-based process modeling solution (everything you see is taking place within a browser) that I’m working on. Initial Project…
Yesterday, Nat Torkington had an interesting post on O’Reilly Radar (not to be confused with Radar O’Reilly) entitled “The effect of the Depression on Technology.” Whether I would classify what we’re in as a “Depression” or not, is beside the point. The economy is definitely not doing well and folks are spooked. Seeing the glass…
From the same event where Jeff Keltner of Google talked about Cloud Computing, below is a video of Adam Selipsky, Amazon’s VP of product marketing and developer relations for Amazon Web Services. Adam uses his slot to talk about what Amazon’s been doing in the last couple of years in the area of Web services….
I came across the following short video featuring Jeff Keltner a Business Development Manager for Google Apps. The video is from TechWeb from mid August and it looks like it was taken at an event featuring various “Cloud Players” (I noticed Amazon’s VP of Amazon Web Services, Adam Selipsky is sitting on the couch while…
Like all “new” things, if its hot and catches on everyone and his brother will jump on the band wagon and want to spread some of its magic pixie dust on their offerings — witness the overuse of the term “Web 2.0.” Such is the current case with “Cloud Computing” a re-branding of an evolution…
A couple of weeks ago, my second day on the job, I was on a flight to our Nation’s capital to take in the Gartner BPM Summit. It was a great way to dive into the wild and wacky world of Business Process Management. It also enabled me to meet a lot of the members…
Who doesn’t love a David and Goliath story? Looks like General Electric has chosen India-based Zoho over Google to supply its cloud-based desktop suite on 400,000 desktops. Zoho is a 600 person company that has never taken venture funding and currently generates $40 million a year. According to Daya Baran’s blog “A GE spokesperson who…