Archive for June, 2008

CloudMania

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

I’m in San Francisco this week for Velocity, CloudCamp and Structure’08 and the valley buzz du’jour is definitely Cloud Computing. Tomorrow evening is the inaugural CloudCamp and I’m bracing myself for more argument over the rules of membership in the Clouderati.
It strikes me that for the business minded, the question is not who’s [...]

Cloud = Outsourcing 2.0

Friday, June 6th, 2008

There has been a remarkable amount of blog banter about what constitutes a cloud. Most of the arguments have some merit, others are self serving attempts to shape our collective understanding to commercial ends.
For the average reader however, I think much of this banter has done more to confuse than clarify the notion of cloud [...]