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Microsoft & Dell partner for Azure hosting
Vacation rental in Fort Walton Beach, FLA Interesting juxtaposition, last week I was vacationing at the Azure condos in Florida and this week Dell is making a strategic announcement to develop a...
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PaaS, much ado about network services
There’s a surprising about of a hair pulling regarding IaaS vs PaaS. People in the industry get into shouting matches about this topic as if it mattered more than Lindsay Lohan’s journey through...
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VM != Cloud! Comparision draws ire, misses point
Having the requirement benefit of working with both Dave McCrory and Joyent on a daily basis at Dell, I cannot resist weighing in on the blog pong between them. Dave’s post comparing VM pricing...
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Getting cozy with “Adjacent Services”
I’ve had a busy week with Azure Training and Cloud Camp Seattle. It’s going to take a few days to unwind specific posts about both, but I wanted to hit some shiny new thoughts. Services helping each...
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Seattle Cloud Camp, Dec 2010
While I was in Seattle for Azure training preparing for Dell’s Azure Appliance , Dave @McCrory suggested that we also attend the Seattle Cloud Camp (SCC Tweets). This event was very well attended (200...
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Microsoft Azure Cloud – Top 20 Lessons Learned about MS’s PaaS
Last week Dave McCrory (@McCrory) and I (@Zehicle) had the benefit of intensive Azure training at Microsoft HQ to support Dell’s Azure Stamp. We’ve assembled a top 20 list of things to know about...
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Why cloud compute will be free
Today at Dell, I was presenting to our storage teams about cloud storage (aka the “storage banana”) and Dave “Data Gravity” McCrory reminded me that I had not yet posted my epiphany explaining “why...
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The Upstream Imperative: paving the way for content creators is required for...
Since content is king, platform companies (like Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook and Amazon) win by attracting developers to build on their services. Open source tooling and frameworks are the...
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To avoid echo chamber, OpenStack must embrace competitive cloud ecosystem
Japanese Bullet Train View I was in Japan before the Tokyo summit on a bullet train to Kyoto watching the mix of heavy industry and bucolic mountains pass by. That scene reflects an OpenStack duality:...
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