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Roll Your Own Cloud (from linux.conf.au 2011)

Feb 04, 2011

At linux.conf.au 2011 in Brisbane, I had the honor of co-presenting a talk on Rolling Your Own Cloud with SUSE’s Tim Serong. Take a look!

Cloud, SaaS and The Consumerization of IT

Nov 01, 2010


I wrote a guest column for GigaOm on how open source software, cloud and software as a service are helping to bring about the consumerization of IT: namely bringing simplicity where complexity reigned. ?I cited some examples including New Relic, Box.net and Apple.

Open source has gone a long way toward putting power back in the hands of developers, who can download, install and deploy software without having to go through any kind of?convoluted sales or budget approval process. ?You want?MySQL? ?You can download and install?in?15 minutes, and you don?t have to talk to anyone to do it.
Software as a service (SaaS) takes this to an even broader audience, enabling employees to get the kind of lightweight, consumer, self-serve capabilities in their job without even having to run their own servers. ?Platforms like?Amazon AWS, Heroku, Makara, RightScale?and others put this same kind of SaaS power in the hands of developers…
My view: ease of use trumps a long feature list any day of the week. There are both techological reasons as well as sociological and economic reasons for why organizations are seeking greater simplicity. ?Part of this stems from the fact that complex enterprise applications grew beyond the ability of most organizations to successfully adopt. ?

Head over to GigaOm for the full post.

Develop and test your apps on the IBM Cloud – Daniel Krook

Mar 25, 2010

I moved to a new position within IBM at the beginning of the year, joining the Enterprise Initiatives organization responsible for delivering IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud.
Before I joined this team, Development and Test launched as a free public beta in 2009. Throughout 2010 we?ve incrementally improved [...]