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The rants and raves of Simon Wardley.
Industry and technology mapper, business strategist, destroyer of undeserved value.
"I like ducks, they're fowl but not through choice"

Saturday, May 01, 2010

VMForce, Zimki and the cloud.

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Before discussing VMForce, I first want to remind people of the tale of Zimki. Zimki was one of the first platform as a service offerin...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Use cloud and get rid of your sysadmin.

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Following on from my Cloud Computing Myths post. The principle argument behind cloud getting rid of sysadmins is one of "pre-clou...
Friday, April 09, 2010

Common Cloud Myths

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Over the last three years, I've spent an increasingly disproportionate amount of my time dealing with cloud myths. I thought I'd cat...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Cloud computing made simple

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It has been a truly amazing year since we embarked on our "cloud" journey at Ubuntu, hence I thought I'd review some of the h...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

Cloud rant

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For the last two posts, I've had a pop at the term "cloud" , I'd like to now explain my reasoning in more detail. Fir...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Is your cloud a poodle?

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Since we're fond of replacing meaningful concepts such as commoditisation, lifecycle, categorisation and computer utilities with bland ...
Friday, March 12, 2010

What is Cloud?

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Before we can discuss this term, a bit of history and background is needed. Activities All business activities undergo a lifecycle, they evo...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Mystic Me 3.0

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It's time for a spot of bleary eyed crystal ball gazing. Last year, my predictions were fairly reasonable with 7 hits covering the comm...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The king was in his counting house ...

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... handing out our money. This was the year that Mervyn King & Alistair Darling managed to spectacularly fritter away billions of ta...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Where is Amazon heading?

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There is something that I've always found confusing about Amazon's cloud strategy. The development of EC2 & S3 makes good s...

Mystic Meg Epic Fail

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I hate predictions. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the "oh, it's already happening but I'll pretend it's new...
Friday, December 11, 2009

Cloud Camp Frankfurt

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A few months ago I provided an introductory talk on cloud computing at Cloud Camp Frankfurt . I was asked to be vendor neutral, so it is lig...
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