Recently I’ve seen a couple of comments about customers feeling like they don’t know how to “approach” Cloud Computing. Jay Fry, VP of Strategy at CA recently remarked that a customer felt like they were behind the curve when it comes to Cloud Computing adoption. (The power of market hype at work.) Scott Sanchez, author [...]

I had a great time discussing Cloud Security with Mike Masnick of Floor64 and Sam Quigley of Emerose today during an IT Innovations Webinar. During that talk, I discussed my view that Cloud Computing is really two different markets today: “Cloud Forward” & “Cloud Backwards”. As illustrated below, Cloud Forward refers to a market that [...]

We’ve all been to a few conferences now and have heard the same attempts to define Cloud Computing over and over. Pundits, analysts and vendor strategists can barely contain their sanity when it’s brought up again. I’m not going to create a new definition, but I did want to help people understand what I call [...]