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100-day Cloud Watch: Surveying the Cloud Computing Surveys

January 14, 2010 100-days by brenda michelson

As I mentioned on Tuesday, I’m dedicating 100-days worth of research sessions to explore “enterprise cloud computing considerations”.  My first topic is adoption trends:

  • What are organizations doing, or planning to do, with cloud computing? 
  • What types of cloud computing environments are being used, considered and/or ignored?
  • What industries are leading and lagging adoption? 
  • What use cases are being fulfilled, in part or in full, by cloud computing offerings? 
  • What are the major drivers and expectations?

To get started, I’m surveying the cloud computing surveys.  Certainly, I expect to see security noted as a big concern, and operating expense versus capital outlay as a driver.  In fact, I’ll cover each of those points in later days, as business risk and economic considerations, respectively.   What I’m looking for in my survey of the surveys are observations, trends and even predictions, beyond the headlines.

[Written hours later]  Admittedly, one thing I didn’t factor in was the time consuming survey weeding process.  I’ve narrowed the body of work by date, source and depth of available information.  As a result, I’ll be reviewing the following surveys/papers:

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100-day Cloud Watch: Enterprise Cloud Computing Considerations

January 12, 2010 100-days by brenda michelson

To date, I have applied a wide lens to my cloud watching to get a good feel for the entire space.  As a result, I published my "cloud-o-gram" and numerous posts on developments, perspectives and conversations that caught my attention.

For the start of 2010, specifically the next 100 days, I’m going to narrow my cloud watching lens to enterprise cloud computing considerations.  My plan is to apply 2 – 5 research sessions to each enterprise consideration and publish my findings along the way, via elemental cloud computing cloud watch entries and blog posts.

At the end of my list, or 100-days, whichever comes first, I’ll summarize my findings in a research report. 

Reviewing my current calendar, the 100th research day is May 21.  Like all good (former) developers, I’ve buffered with Saturday mornings.

In additional to my standard categories and tagging schemes, I’ll use the “100-days” category and “enterprise considerations” tag.

My starting list of enterprise cloud computing considerations follows.   more >>