As we enter the final week before the 19th International Cloud Expo |
@ThingsExpo in Santa Clara, CA, it's time for me to reflect on six big topics
that will be important during the show.
Hybrid Cloud
This general-purpose term seems to provide a comfort zone for many enterprise
IT managers. It sounds reassuring to be able to work with one of the major
public-cloud providers like AWS or Microsoft Azure while still maintaining an
on-site presence.
But this is a complicated topic, not a simple one. The larger issue is to
avoid creating new, discrete silos of information as an enterprise develops
some apps on AWS, a PoC on-premises, and tries to deploy across hybrid and
multiple clouds. I look forward to conversations with Cloud Expo attendees
that touch on the seemingly infinite variety of hybrid cloud approaches and
options available today.
Containers and Microservi... (more)
There was a time, in the 1990s, when Silicon Valley and Redmond thought
Washington, DC, didn't matter. Top executives would occasionally appear in
front of Congress to inveigh mostly against one another, then quickly return
home to resume making money. The notion that clueless DC regulators and
legislators mattered was ridiculed when it wasn't ignored.
Things changed in 1999, when the Department of Justice (DOJ) won a judgment
against Microsoft. The presiding judge lowered the boom in April 2000,
starting the catastrophic dot-com implosion (which took all of tech with it),
then ... (more)
VMware execs Bob Schultz and Sumit Dhawan were in leadership training in
Boston during their first day at their new company. They promised to respond
to my inquiries regarding their new positions as soon as possible. When they
do, I'll report what they said.
The news of their move came as a seeming lightning strike on the first real
work day of 2014. Officially, they give Wmware "even deeper end-user
computing and industry expertise going into 2014 and position us very well to
continue to provide customers with industry leading solutions," according to
a blog entry by Sanjay Poo... (more)
Andi Mann Returns to @DevOpsSummit as Conference Chair
Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Andi Mann returns to DevOps Summit
2015 as Conference Chair
The 4th International DevOps Summit will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at
the Javits Center in New York City.
"DevOps is set to be one of the most profound disruptions to hit IT in
decades," said Andi Mann. "It is a natural extension of cloud computing, and
I have seen both firsthand and in independent research the fantastic results
DevOps delivers. So I am excited to help the great team at Cloud Expo tell
the world how the... (more)
The value of blogging continues to surface as a naval-gazing exercise within
the technology community. Does blogging matter? Does anyone care whether or
not it matters? Should it matter? These and other meta-questions continue to
be posed by those who a.) aren't getting enough hits on their blogs, b.) have
too much time on their hands, or c.) are onto one of the seminal
transformations in history of humans' communications with one another.
My view has always been that blogging serves two major purposes: it acts as
an arbitraging agent within the calcified traditional media world, ... (more)
Roger Strukhoff 
Amy Eager
Michel Courtoy
Amitabh Sinha
Mark Leake
Rajeev Kozhikkattuthodi
Stefana Muller
Jordan Shamir
Tracy Bannon
Lev Lesokhin
Nishanth Kadiyala
