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I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now

This week I've talked with a couple of organizations about cloud deployments and expected benefits. One thing that I found interesting is the difference in HP's perspective from other providers. When a service provider (like HP Enterprise Services...

Published 11-14-2009 1:28 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Trends, Technology adoption, Architecture

Business Schools and Information Technology

I was sitting in on a meeting of the Information Technology and Operations Management ( ITOM ) curriculum committee at SMU the other day. One of the interesting things that has happened at business schools across the country is that they have reduced...

Published 11-11-2009 11:39 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business process modeling , Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Trends, Applications, Modeling, business rules, Business-IT Alignment

Tech jobs replaced by cloud

Over the past few months I've seen numerous articles talking about tech jobs being replaced as organizations implement cloud, like this one in CIO magazine . This is really not anything new. When the mainframe came on the scene in the 50s, it replaced...

Published 10-28-2009 11:00 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Trends, Technology adoption, Adaptation, Protectionism

Cloud Computing and Lateral Thinking

Let’s have some fun and come up with new ideas about cloud computing using the Lateral Thinking method. If you are reading this blog, then you know all about cloud computing. Lateral Thinking is a set of techniques for developing new ideas and solutions...

Published 10-02-2009 7:52 PM by Kas Kasravi

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Innovation

Are the drivers for a cloud data center all that different than for a traditional data center?

A colleague asked some of us here: “Does the enterprise data center as we know it needs to change?“ My immediate thought was “Of course it needs to change!” The typical raised floor data center is filled with isolated hardware...

Published 09-25-2009 10:15 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , IT Services

Protectionism returning?

I caught an article during my travels in August referencing the World Bank Global Antidumping Database . The numbers quoted showed an increase in new protectionist practices of 31% in the first half of 2009 relative to the first half of 2008. During our...

Published 09-22-2009 9:16 AM by chris moyer

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Protectionism

Enterprise Architectures role in combating cloud sprawl

In a recent article in Computerworld there was a discussion of the phenomenon of cloud computing expanding uncontrollably in an enterprise. Cloud was compared to the client/server and departmental computing shift that took place in the late 80s and 90s...

Published 09-17-2009 7:25 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Enterprise Architecture , Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Trends, Utility computing, Architecture, Change management

SOA and Cloud: Business Necessity for Small to Medium Sized Businesses

The synergy of service oriented architecture (SOA) and cloud computing will make small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) a competitive threat to their large siblings. I define SOA as integrating sharable business capabilities across organizational boundaries...

Published 08-31-2009 11:15 PM by Fred Cummins

Filed under: Agility, Enterprise Architecture , Business process outsourcing , Cloud Computing , Outsourcing , SOA , Value chain , Modeling

Cloud vs. Outsourcing

Recently, a colleague and I were asked for our views on outsourcing versus cloud computing , and the impact of the latter on the former. In general, different people have different notions of what outsourcing really is. At its most basic, I would define...

Published 08-31-2009 9:58 PM by ed.reynolds@hp.com

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Outsourcing , Utility computing

True Cloud – Virtualization Not Required

That may be a bold title, given that virtualization , and anything related to it, was all the rage just a few years ago. But lately, I have been pondering the implications of native cloud application architectures on the underlying infrastructure . A...

Published 08-31-2009 4:33 PM by ed.reynolds@hp.com

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Infrastructure , Applications, Virtualization, IaaS, Architecture

Is "good enough" a fad or the future

In this month's Wired magazine there is an article titled: The Good Enough Revolution that discusses how new markets are taken over by products that are "good enough" and undercut technically better approaches. The examples discussed are...

Published 08-28-2009 5:18 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Agility, Cloud Computing , Trends, Technology adoption, Clayton Christensen, Evolution, Adaptation

Three laws of robots actually a human restriction

In Computer magazine , there was a recent article Beyond Asimov: The Three Laws of Responsible Robotics. This article addressed a perspective I've always had - Robots will need to have significantly more "perceptual and reasoning capabilities"...

Published 08-20-2009 2:21 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Robotics , Software Reliability , Technology adoption, Pervasive computing, Agentry

Darwin and the Cloud

2009 is both the 150 year publication anniversary of the foundational work On " The Origin of Species " by Charles Darwin and his 200 year birthday. What would he tell us today about the evolution of cloud computing or is this a far fetched...

Published 08-13-2009 9:37 AM by ROLF KUBLI

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Innovation , Efficiency, Flexibility, Evolution, Adaptation

Applications vs. aggregations in the cloud

I was talking with someone earlier this week about cloud-based solution architecture. They had a leader who wanted to see a template "application architecture". I told them that the whole concept of an " application " may be relatively...

Published 08-01-2009 12:21 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , PaaS , SaaS, Trends, Utility computing, IaaS, Architecture

Cloud to Dampen New Languages?

There seems to be a bountiful crop of new programming languages springing up. As cloud computing moves beyond IaaS to PaaS , I wonder about the effect of cloud standardization on these new languages. Granted there is only an infinitesimal percentage of...

Published 07-26-2009 11:35 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Development, Parallel computing

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