Cloud Computing

"Besides their monopoly-resistant properties, open source cloud software could play an important role in the rise of so-called private clouds – cloud infrastructures that are run on-premise. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the concept of private clouds or not, they’re coming. For compliance, privacy, uptime and a host of other reasons. Given that one can’t replicate the platforms of an Amazon, a Google or a Microsoft internally, it would seem to make public to private or vice versa transitions challenging in the extreme." - Michael R. Bernstein via Bookmarklet

I'm particularly interested in the combination of Eucalyptus + Appscale. - Michael R. Bernstein

Interesting analysis. I'll be trying to dig up the actual Forrester report myself. I'm wary of some of these conclusions since these cloud taxonomies are so loose right now. - David Ziembicki via Bookmarklet

As datacenters continue to get more dense and consume even more power, regulation is probably inevitable. Manos says prepare now (actually he's correctly been saying that for a while). I agree... - David Ziembicki via Bookmarklet

Interesting research, it jives with what I've been seeing/hearing as well. There's also a big difference between simply using cloud-based email (Exchange Online, Gmail, etc) and deciding to build your next major app or service on the cloud. - David Ziembicki via Bookmarklet

This should be interesting, I've been surprised that IBM hasn't made more noise in the cloud space. - David Ziembicki via Bookmarklet

Google is the headline but the substnace of the article is good advice for everyone. - David Ziembicki via Bookmarklet

The money quote: "Large enterprise customers don't really believe vendor SLAs." Very true and I agree that the email and collab space lets customers take a measure approach toward migrating to the cloud. - David Ziembicki via Bookmarklet

Ouch. Admittedly I am biased since I work for Microsoft but I believe Rob makes some good points. Google is certainly capable of getting there but as Microsoft has found, a major long term committment and investment is required. They will have to choose and also accept that margins in Enterprise will be nowhere near what they have gotten used to. - David Ziembicki via Bookmarklet

Sponsored by EMC and published by IDC. - Louis Gray

I'll be going to this, DM me if you want to meet up. - Oleg Podsechin

100 page Google mini-book on datacenters and the design of "warehouse-scale machines" - David Ziembicki

Kim Cameron discusses the wide spectrum of cloud security opinion - David Ziembicki via Bookmarklet