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“The Cloud” has given us far too many metaphors. And most of us have overused them, peppering our discussions, presentations and blogs – all too often over-reaching for an apt image. At TM Forum Management World, a new one arose. Arguing that “it’s time to make it rain,” Deutsche Bank’s Sean Kelley, global asset management CIO and head of DB’s platform services, asked assembled suppliers and providers to accelerate the “rain” – the results of the Cloud. Keying off the American image of “rainmaker... -
TM Forum Management World in Nice and CA World in Las Vegas collided last week. But what happens in Vegas (or Nice) doesn’t stay there any more, as presentations, demos and keynotes are available on the Web…and even YouTube. Let me be candid right up front: I work at CA Technologies, and serve on the TM Forum’s Executive Committee. So I have interests in what happened in both places. The discussions in the Desert Babylon and the Mediterranean Haven were remarkably parallel. Both events focused heavily... -
A year ago in Nice, the debate was whether “the cloud” was reality or hype. Economic virtues were touted and praised. Vendors and SPs alike were challenged to “think of everything as a service” – available on demand, self-service, with use-based pricing. But skeptics abounded. Six months ago in Orlando, discussion swirled around active cloud experiments. Who was running them? Focused on what? -- More often than not, on dev/test. Talk rife about “rogue” experiments in departments, paid for with credit... -
Last May at Management World, there was lots of chatter about “the Cloud”---much of it unfocused, skeptical, sometimes confused as people speculated and argued about what “the Cloud really means.” By December’s Management Americas, some of the skepticism had dissipated, some of the confusion had abated, as more and more people had a clearer understanding of the business drivers behind the Cloud and a surprising number of people had already begun experiments with cloud-based services – both user and... -
From the opening moments of the plenary session when the audience dubbed cloud services as their top interest, the focus of this year’s TM Forum Management World Conference in Orlando was clear: Service providers and their suppliers are moving rapidly to understand how to apply the cloud to their businesses and monetize the resultant services. In May, at TMWorld in Nice, attendees were skeptical of cloud hype. In Orlando, the pace of experimentation was apparent and a flurry of announcements confirmed... -
Most of us have had the experience of travelling to acountry where we can’t speak the language and trying to function. Except for a few words like “please,”“thank you” and “where is a restaurant” we are filled with a mix of excitement, uncertainly and confusion. That pretty much sums up where users are with respect tocloud computing services these days. The brochure looks great but what’s the reality? And while there the list ofuncertainties and questions is lengthy, one of the most basic issues... -
Any discussion of cloud computing has to acknowledge that on one hand, it holds huge promise while on the other hand, is possibly the most over-hyped technology trend to come down the pike in many a year. That aside, the potential to save costs and gain flexibility in offering new services is compelling. And between those two,my advice is to make the business case on the new service flexibility aspectsas most new technologies that promise significant costs savings end up not delivering on that promise... -
Was thumbing through a past issue of Network World and came upon a very good perspective on Cloud Computing. http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/091509antonopoulos.html -
By now, most everyone has heard the the City of LA has decided to replace much of it's Microsoft and Novell apps with Google Apps. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article6894607.ece While much of the talk has has centered around GMail, the deal in fact is much broader and encompasses all of the Google Apps that compete with Office and Novell's GroupWise. The most obvious issues involve security and quality of service and it's interesting to note... -
A new term has cropped up - Internal Cloud - which replaces the term Private Cloud. But whatever you call it, users are still peeling away the layers of the onion to understand exactly what a cloud environment means in terms of IT capabilities as well as benefits for users. As expected, it's a lot more complex than just hosting a virtual machine on a server and sooner or later, we have to start being more specific about what a cloud service is and what it isn't (today, almost every online...
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