One of the touted benefits of cloud computing is supposed to be that it is a metered service. Much like your water and electric, the cloud is supposed to allow users to access compute resources as needed and be charged only for what is used. This is a great model for users of cloud computing… Read More »
Return-on-Investment (ROI), perhaps the biggest crock-of-$%@& metric ever applied to the information technology industry. How does one measure return? If we use monetary return, then the question, “how much money did I make on my investment in a $10K server,” is relatively impossible to answer. One must consider the software run on that server, what… Read More »
I can store pedabytes of data in the cloud. I can run my E-mail, communications, CRM, HR and Accounting in the cloud. My employees can live and work anywhere in the world thanks to the cloud. The Internet was the great equalizer. On the Web small businesses and large enterprises were virtually indistinguishable from each… Read More »
This blog entry can also be seen at: http://blogs.smartronix.com/?p=114 At the upcoming Interop Las Vegas Show (5/10/2011) I’m presenting “A Roadmap for Transitioning to Cloud Computing”. One of the key steps in my roadmap is identifying a business use case for cloud computing. I started with a quick search on the topic to see what… Read More »
So it seems that with regard to Kundra’s 25-point plan and the mandate to move three applications to the cloud in 18 months that email seems to be the primary target for the first transition. The decision to move email into the cloud is a relative no-brainer. Email needs to be ubiquitous, accessed across a… Read More »
It’s not about what’s different, it’s about getting on board with the changes in the game or get left behind. People say, “What’s so different about Cloud Computing?”, “This is nothing more than managed hosting or mainframe computing redux”, “what’s old is new again”. What was it that Gordon Gekko says to Jake on the… Read More »
Yesterday, February 8, 2011, the Office of the U.S. Chief Information Office released its Federal Cloud Computing Strategy. In no uncertain terms, this strategy is focused primarily on one key factor—deliver more value for the same dollars spent. Semantically, to me, this is a very different statement than establishing this strategy around lowering IT costs.… Read More »
The epiphany occurred the other day while talking to a Department of Defense customer; enterprise architecture (EA) for the sake of doing enterprise architecture is a seemingly valid and important activity, but in retrospect flounders aimlessly in search of respect. We hear it consistently throughout the industry—EA gets no respect. Organizations, such as IASA and… Read More »
I had a great lunch discussion today regarding the impact of ownership of SOA within the business. As I have discussed multiple times, SOA is about business services, not technical services, but the reality of this point is lost in semantics. The following illustrates the different perspectives that each have and how that impacts the… Read More »
Based on feedback from my last blog entry, “The Busy Executive’s Quick Cloud Computing Reference Guide” the consensus was that people found it very helpful as a means of gaining quick understanding of what Cloud Computing is without getting mired in heaps of technology jargon and hype. So, I decided that SOA needed something very similar.… Read More »