David Berlind is our Evening in the Cloud host. David says the discussion shouldn’t be about cloud computing definition, it should be about cloud computing benefits. The benefits will lead to the ‘right’ definition. Panel Format, each panelist has 8 minutes to “pitch us” as though they were visiting our organization. more >>
Jake Sorofman, rPath, James Duncan, Joyent and Chet Kapoor, Sonoa Systems chat with Alistair Croll on the futures of cloud. These companies offer software, products that are adjacent to, or run on, the cloud. They are not cloud operators.
Which cloud you go to, depends on what you are moving. Move machines, code, processes or content. This is the clearest way to determine what type of cloud an operator is offering, ask them “what do I move to you – machines, code, processes or content”.
Alistair is qualifying “move”, in that some code might need to tweaked for the features/functions/services of the cloud, or perhaps re-written in the case of tightly coupled legacy code.
Continuing my broad survey of cloud computing, I’m dropping by Enterprise 2.0 in Boston. The cloud computing program starts with a full day of talks and panel discussions and concludes with an Evening in the Cloud
