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The catch phrase of the last few years has been “The Cloud”. What REALLY is the  cloud?  By the consumer’s definition it is when I buy a video on Amazon and magically it is available to me anywhere I go. The video is then up in the ambiguous cloud. I don’t know what the hardware or software is, or even if it the data …

After my post about Mozy being the poster child for why the cloud stinks, I was pointed to this article by Tom Petrocelli, suggesting public cloud providers should be treated as a regulated utility. Before I respond, let me just also ask if anyone sees the irony in the “Journey to the Cloud” company using …

My last blog post I rambled on about the Private Cloud and how I think it can be beneficial to IT. When I start thinking about Public Clouds, though, my forecast doesn’t look so positive. I will start by saying all applications and organizations are not equal. I think there are many applications that are …

It appears I’m not the only one who thinks all this talk of ‘clouds’ is just a lot of hot air. Recently, Amazon and the VCE team have been going back and forth over the use of the term ‘private cloud’, and I find the comments from both sides interesting. You can read about Amazon’s …

I’ve been getting push back on the idea that cloud computing has challenges becoming reality.  A lot of people seem to think it’s already accomplished.  Private clouds, Amazon, Google, backup in the cloud, it’s all happening. A thing hit me the other day while I was talking with someone about why Google Apps isn’t a …