It's been four years since our last economic bubble and eleven since our last
technology bubble, so it's possible that another one is coming soon. Or not.
Your guess is as good as mine. I suppose I could pontificate about why one is
coming (hint: see Instagram @ $1B), but that doesn't help anybody. Instead,
I've decided to create an open plan to take advantage of the existing hype in
the market, across multiple vectors.
So I've decided to write an open letter to Tom Scott, creator of Klouchebag.
Dear Tom,
Big fan of Klouchebag. Built in just a few hours. Hosted in the Cloud.
Leveraging APIs to access realtime data. All the checkboxes for success in
today's web. And it came at just the right time, since Klout has obviously
jumped the shark with this article in Wired magazine. Not only does
Klouchebag boldly claim dominion as "The Standard of Asshattery", but it
plays ... (more)
One of the most fun aspects of hosting The Cloudcast (.net) podcast is that
we take a completely vendor-neutral and technology-neutral stance on what we
discuss and who we invite onto the show. Lots of learning and lots of great
discussions. And occasionally we ask a few questions and find some
interesting needles in the haystack that we didn't expect. [APIs, data
analytics and the business models they enable are top of mind for me these
days]
This is exactly what happened on this week's show with Mat Ellis (@matellis),
CEO of Cloudability. I had learned about his company while ... (more)
Over a year ago, I wrote my initial thoughts on VMware's CloudFoundry PaaS
platform. Over the past year, the platform has grown and evolved in
interesting ways - new frameworks, new partners, new tools and new ways to
interact with the community.
But one question continued to linger. How would CloudFoundry connect back to
the rest of the VMware portfolio? There was already some connections to the
SpringSource framework and vFabric, but it wasn't clear if it would connect
back to vSphere. Or should it connect back to vSphere? Cloud Foundry is an
open (source) PaaS framework that w... (more)
As springtime rolls around, all sorts of interesting things start popping up
that either delight us (green grass), frustrate us (weeds), congest us
(pollen) or confuse us (daylight savings time). And a similar phenomenon
appears to also be happening with "Cloud Management" start-ups.
In the early days, Cloud Computing either meant using SaaS applications or
developer groups ("Shadow IT") that used one of the public IaaS services,
such as AWS. SaaS had built-in management and those developer groups either
used the basic AWS tools or built some things themselves. Most of these were ... (more)
There is a lot of buzz these days about DevOps, the movement to blur the
lines between application development and IT operations. The thinking goes -
if there is direct linkage between the functions (or if they are a single
group), then how the applications are operated is always top-of-mind and
things like security, automation and scalability can be designed-in from Day
1.
But as we move towards a world that is heavily dominated by touch-screen
devices (gestures instead of clicks), apps replacing applications (UI + API +
Data) and API integration between various services, I'm st... (more)
An 18 year technology veteran, Brian Gracely is Director of Global Solutions at EMC. He holds CCIE #3077 and an MBA from Wake Forest University.
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