James Watters
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After Thoughts on the Gartner Cloud Collision #FailBucket Brawl
My my little debate with Gartner was utterly unintentional, and I blame it entirely on Google reader. Late at night it brought me this gem of a quote about ‘cloud computing’ With failure and lack of interest [in cloud computing] the fall from Inflated Expectations [will soon] begin its decent to the Trough of Disillusionment. ...
Gartner Consulting is in the Cloud Collision #FailBucket
Is there a bigger intellectual #FAIL in current technology analysis than Gartner consulting? Watch them closely, because in my opinion they are the definition of dissonance Here’s why: In the last two months they have: Claimed ‘cloud computing’ is a $46B addressable market, on track to grow to $146B by 2013 (four years). Defined ‘cloud ...
Not So Fast Public Cloud: Big Players Still Run Privately
The highest value work in cloud computing is writing the software and scaling it.
Niche Busters: VMware Rolls Into PaaS and Java
VMware now owns the open-source king of light-weight web-facing Java development. So what? My top five. (They didn’t give their graphics people much warning apparently. Notice the harsh layer transitions between the Spring Source Build Run Manage pie and the softer vCloud. Let’s hope they invest more in product integration.) This is all about making ...
Cloud Collision: Epic Public vs. Private Debates Begin
Public vs. private is one of the hottest topics going in the cloud blogosphere. The reason is simple: customization is the biggest market in IT. And keeping things custom is in a lot of people’s interest. In my time as a corporate development monkey at an infrastructure vendor, one of my best ‘ah ha!’ slide ...
What’s the Best Way to Measure the Clouds?
Web domain hosting generates a lot of public data, and for years people have tried to scrape this domain data as evidence of this or that trend in computing. A great example was the use of Netcraft charts describing the operating system share of total domains. This week a web research shop called InfiniBase released ...
The Gatling Gun and the Cloud Collision
Nate D’Amico passed on an interesting quote from some folks at Canonical comparing the broad cloud computing trend to the equally broad but historically proven ‘industrial revolution.’ Frankly the parallels here are self evident, (thinking about them a bit), yup—got it right? But one particular artifact of the industrial revolution intrigues me, the Gatling ...
Good Infrastructure Clouds are Actually SOSI [Buzzword Bingo]
I’m not a huge fan of the IaaS term. To me it wastes too many letters (aa adds what value, now?), and makes the phenomena of cloud computing infrastructure the little brother of SaaS. Never the less, you are likely to see it in the opening slide deck of any major cloud computing conference you ...
Liberté Aux Nuages!
Cloud computing is bringing cool software start-ups and talent to the infrastructure space again—a $50B+ market that had been hitting the snooze button for a while. One of the hottest areas is services and programming libraries built on top of cloud infrastructure APIs. Infrastructure is cool again because the capital required for a hardware start-up ...
VMware’s Two Important Cloud Beta’s
With VM world a month away, software license revenues declining 20% year over year and the online cloud computing market growing at double digits VMware needs to catch hold of the cloud trend in a big way—that’s my angle. VMware marketing has been up to the task, branding a suite of product, services and partners ...
