Been a long, tiring but very enjoyable month. I have been down in Australia targeting new business opportunities for “Cloud” consulting and as I get ready to return to the UK I am left feeling very positive. One area that I discussed with a number of organisations (whether they be buyers or suppliers) was the …
Category Archives: Cloud Computing
People in Glass Houses
The recent Cloud* outages for Air New Zealand / IBM and T-Mobile / Sidekick / Danger / Microsoft are clearly a wake up call for the emerging Cloud industry. Having sailed close to the edge as a Cloud startup I am only too aware about how harsh customers can be and how quickly we had …
Cloud Computing Books
Been busy over the past few months capturing experiences from the last hmmmm years about the internet/SaaS/Cloud and putting them into a couple of books: Thinking of…Buying a Cloud Solution? Ask the Smart Questions and Thinking of…Offering a Cloud Solution? Ask the Smart Questions The idea behind these books is that if you are currently …
Interesting to many, essential to few
I offer this as a simple tag line to the malaise that many telco’s find themselves in when it comes to positioning their web based (SaaS) offerings. With business models designed to assess the viability of multi million dollar infrastructure investments with long term pay backs it is not surprising that the natural approach when …
Blog left to fend for itself again
Been stupidly busy over the past few months and this blog has been the soft option to ignore. What with building out the Smart Questions business and getting everything ready for MS WPC (more about that in another post), working out in The Netherlands for a month and a half, a week in New Orleans …
Why “Cloud” will stick
Last July I put up a short blog entry stating that despite all the efforts of the IT industry to differentiate by trying to define increasingly focused language (SaaS, PaaS, DaaS etc) it would, as always, be the customers who would decide. And they would pick something that would be simple and to many in …
SaaS is so Last year
Last week I attended Cloudforce in London and was left with a couple of major takeaways: The Poster Child of the “SaaS revolution” talked only about Cloud with SaaS and even PaaS being conspicuous by their absence My perception of Salesforce was significantly enhanced as I left Cloudforce Everything in the Salesforce marketing and branding …
Stop Spinning, Start Moving
Although the IT industry is constantly claiming “paradigm shifts” the reality is that most of the time it doesn’t amount to much more than changing the colour or shape of the box (anybody who wants to understand what Paradigm Shifts really are should either read Thomas Kuhn’s book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” from 1962 …
Are you in the SaaS Ball Park
SaaS or S+S if you are in the Microsoft world is the hot game in town. There is money to be made as I know from my previous business, but there is also lots of hype (to be expected with any new story in the world of IT!!). As it has always been “knowledge is …
Sanity and some faith restored
After my previous outburst that the world had gone mad with Dell’s attempt to patent "cloud computing", I was relieved to see that their application has been rejected for a number of reasons, including that "cloud computing" is a generic concept. However the rejection was not outright and Dell have been given 6 months to …
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