To start off with, I do not agree with every decision that Microsoft takes and by far there are products which I consider critical too. But what happened here just shows how narrow-minded some arguments are. The background of the excitement are the conclusions of the market researchers IDC and Gartner on the current situation […]
More and more rumors appear that Amazon is building a private cloud for the CIA for espionage activities. The first question that arises here is why for an intelligence? Second, why Amazon AWS as a public cloud provider, because they are a service provider and not a software company. But, if we think a little […]
I was asked this question from a visitor at CeBIT after my lecture/ panel „Public vs. Private cloud“ during the Webciety 2013. We then talked a little about this topic. His question was, why some companies decide for a private cloud despite of the massive investments, and how they measure these capital expenditures and justify […]
In a recently published German interview, a VMware employee has been thrilled himself to the, for me, very vague and questionable statement „VMware is the technology enabler of the cloud, and I currently see no other.“. Without offending VMware, this sentence sounds to me very overestimating and is like a loss of reality. There is […]
A popular cloud computing discussion is the vendor lock-in. The dependence on one vendor which is so large that the change in the current situation is too uneconomical due to high switching costs. I had such a discussion recently during a panel and would like to describe my general attitude about vendor lock-in. Because I […]
Google is known for „just“ throw a new service on the market. That’s their corporate culture. It promotes creativity within the company and ensures innovation. But at the end of the day also Google must be clean up the playground. This resulted in numerous closures of famous and lesser-known services in the recent past. Latest […]
According to a survey of Bitkom among 436 German companies a third of all respondents use cloud computing in 2012. This sounds good at first and shows that the cloud adoption is going upwards in Germany. However, I assume that the number is sugarcoated. No, not by Bitkom itself, but because it is still unclear […]
In my guest post on the automation experts blog two weeks ago, I discussed the topic of big bata and how companies should learn from the U.S. election of Barack Obama in 2012, to convert real-time information in the lead. In addition to cloud computing, mobile and social media, big data is one to the […]
The global outage of Windows Azure Storage due to an expired SSL certificate again has struck big waves on Twitter. The ironic aftertaste is particularly due to the fact that Windows Azure was recently chosen by Nasuni as the „Leader in Cloud Storage“. Especially because of performance, availability and write errors Azure could stick out. […]
Cloud Computing ist not simple!
Cloud computing promises to be simple. Starting here and there a virtual server and the own virtual cloud infrastructure is ready. Those who think that I’m right with the statement are totally wrong. Virtual servers are only a small component of a virtual infrastructure at a cloud provider. A few virtual machines aren’t a cloud. […]
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