Saturday morning, I joined Dave Linthicum on his cloud computing podcast to discuss our impressions and findings from Cloud Connect. Check out the podcast. Learn what Kung Fu Panda is doing in the cloud.
Today and tomorrow I’ll be blogging from Cloud Connect 2011 in Santa Clara. There are tracks on Cloud Economics, Security, Culture, Risk and Governance, Data & Storage, Design Patterns, DevOps, Performance and Monitoring, and (surprise) Private Cloud. Last year, “private cloud” was more of a slur, than a strategy. Nice to see the embrace of a common enterprise adoption strategy (or step path).
I’ll be attending a variety of sessions, taking some briefings and connecting with my cloud friends. Follow my coverage here on elemental cloud computing and twitter. The conference tag is #ccevent
This morning, I traded top cloud computing stories for January with David Linthicum and Bill Russell on the Cloud Computing Podcast. We had one common story, giant hint on the left. Check out our podcast.
Back in April 2009, McKinsey set the cloud computing community afire with a presentation arguing that corporate cloud computing adopters might expend more money using cloud versus traditional data center resources. As reported by Steve Lohr in the NYTimes Bits blog:
“The McKinsey study, “Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing,” concludes that outsourcing a typical corporate data center to a cloud service would more than double the cost.”
Many in the cloud computing space, including Gartner’s highly respected Lydia Leong, immediately took the ‘math’ behind this report to task.
My issue at the time wasn’t the math more >>
If the word wasn’t outlawed, I’d give myself a “fail” for Cloud Watch blogging in the second half of 2010. It wasn’t intentional. Or lack of interest. And definitely not lack of material more >>
Apparently, our Top Cloud Computing Stories for May podcast was well-received, because David Linthicum invited me back to swap top stories for June. Check out our podcast. Then, consider this: What will be the ‘Tang’ of cloud computing?
