When I lamented, in a previous post, that I couldn’t tell you about recent submissions to the DMTF Cloud incubator, one of those I had in mind was a submission from HP. I can now write this, because the author of the specification, Nigel Cook, has recently blogged about it. Unfortunately he is isn’t publishing [...]
Events/alerts/notifications have been a central concept in IT management at least since the first SNMP trap was emitted, and probably even long before that. And yet they are curiously absent from all the Cloud management APIs/protocols. If you think that’s because “THE CLOUD CHANGES EVERYTHING” then you may have to think again. Over the last [...]
I caught Simon Wardley’s presentation from OSCON on the IT Conversations Network; you can see in video below. He’s an engaging speaker, and I think his characterisation of Cloud Computing as nothing less than a cultural transformation akin to the Industrial Revolution is spot on. Soundtrack for this post? Mr Blue Sky Link to the [...]
One of the heavily discussed Cloud topics in early 2009 was a Cloud Computing taxonomy. Now that this theme has died down (with limited results), and to start 2010 in a similar form, here is a proposal for a taxonomy of the benefits of Cloud Computing. Just like the original Cloud Computing taxonomy only had [...]
Last night while discussing with my wife (who is my anti-geek to my geek) ways her library patrons might be able to save files they work on in the library's computer lab besides floppy disks – I started talking about services like Dropbox. Her answer was "you mean like storing these files in the cloud?". [...]
Oracle has recently announced the next wave of computing, catchily entitled iGovernment. To see the innovations check out: http://www.oracle.com/goto/igovernment/ My particular interest is of course in improving service delivery. More information here: http://www.oracle.com/industries/government/case-management-crm-government.html Delving a little deeper, the new functions in the Case Management area shows how a family centric view of the child is [...]
Everbody knows what business applications. Forms based, mainly blue and white, if they need to be high volume then keystroke based as well as mouse pointing. Expense systems spring to mind. Well, my children are in exam mode at the moment and in a few years they will be looking for jobs. What do they [...]
I’m not a big fan of reposting without adding anything but I wanted to point to Vadim Lander’s (our new Chief Identity Architect) initial post – "Role of Identity Management in Public vs. Private Cloud Computing." The post covers the primary difference between the cloud types and the identity management requirements for each. And of [...]
Moving enterprise IT assets into the Cloud means giving up some control of those assets. Can your organization handle it? Basheer Khan (Innowave Technology), Jordan Braunstein (Rolta TUSC), and Ralf Dossmann (Oracle) talk it through with host Bob Rhubart. Link to the original site
Compared to the Business/IT gap, the whole Red State/Blue State thing is a picnic. Will Cloud change the picture? Basheer Khan of Innowave Technology, Jordan Braunstein of Rolta TUSC, and Ralf Dossmann of Oracle's Enterprise Solutions Group join host Bob Rhubart to look at the possibilities. Link to the original site