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)
Mumbai, India - A massive “googlebyte” server farm is being built in a
remote corner of India, according to sources familiar with the project. The
project is being financed by Silicon Valley giant Google, Inc. If completed
on schedule in 2010, “[the server farm] will increase the total amount of
installed computer storage capacity in the world by several orders of
magnitude,” according to industry analyst Mark Larfey of
BuildingStorage.com.
A googlebyte is the largest possible measurement of storage capacity. It is
based on the number googol, which is a 10 followed by one hundr... (more)
I just started following sfearthquakes on twitter, a useful service that
provides the scoop whenever we get a temblor in norcal.
If it followed biz earthquakes in Silicon Valley, it'd be reporting on a
magnitude 7.0 event, maybe higher, today. For the repercussions from the
Oracle Sun deal have just begun, and there are several fault lines along
which major aftershocks could no doubt occur.
The major threads in the repercussion discussion are:
* What is the future of MySql? John Dvorak was all over this angle more than
a year ago, with a column that at the time sounded, frankly, para... (more)
Without fear or favor, I present my obligatory Top 11 2011 Cloud Computing
Predictions:
1. Bangladesh emerges as the new Information Society hotspot. Cloud Computing
features in the government's development strategy.
2. India and Taiwan start putting major major data centers online. They will
work with major US service providers to deliver PaaS and IaaS.
3. Northern Africa also emerges as an IT and Cloud hotspot.
4. People scramble to Google maps to learn where Senegal is located.
5. The European Union develops new, tougher privacy guidelines for handling
private data. It sues maj... (more)
Roger Strukhoff 
John Walicki
Lisa Uhrmacher
Jim Frey
Tom Eck
Greg Gorman
Joe Sepi Crane-Messina
Brad Winett
Josh Atwell
Jay Mason
Carmelo McCutcheon
