What’s the one thing you should know when moving to the cloud? | Cloud Pro.

It’s nice to be cited in IT Pro as well:

London Technology Week: Events highlight cloud, youth employment and more | 2 | IT PRO.

“Will Venters commented: ‘What some businesses want from cloud and what cloud is truly offering are different things.’

He warned of comparing it to current IT in light of history demonstrating that new technologies such as the cloud can often be years ahead of the curve.”

Should I move to cloud or stick to outsourced services? | Cloud Pro.

The CloudPro experts’ panel answers this question…

Another more substantial article based on my Cloud World Forum talk on Ambidexterity. This one quotes quite a lot of my slides’ content and what I said.

Ambidexterity and the 2-speed enterprise software market.

“The gulf between technological progress and technology investment is creating a two-speed enterprise software market. Organizations want to invest in new technology to stay competitive. But at the same time, they fear the disruption that new technology will cause…”

Cloud Pro has written an article based on my talk at the Cloud World Forum earlier this week. The focus of the talk was on the disconnect between cloud as cost-saving and the innovative potential this architectural shift might offer to businesses:

LSE: Cloud is “years ahead” of modern IT | Cloud Pro.

The following is an article about next week’s Cloud World Forum in which I am quoted.

“Big Data is the future of business consumer relationships as businesses, governments, researchers and organizations across all industries attempt to harness burgeoning masses of complex data to advance applications and services. This year’s Cloud World Forum, co-located with Big Data World Congress, looks at how organizations are analysing their Big Data, to make more intelligent personalized choices about their customers and also at the risks Big Data poses….”

Cloud World Forum Rides The Big Data Wave | Cloud Computing Journal.

I saw the above article on a researcher using government-provided research computers to mine BitCoins for personal benefit. I think there are three other crimes going on here:

1) Why are these computers so under-utilised that the researcher can do this?

2) If they are so under-utilised why aren’t they being used for something more economically valuable than bit-coin mining – for example being sold out on a PAYG basis for other researchers….

3) If they really cannot find anything useful for the computer then why aren’t they using them for bit-coin mining and contributing the profit back into the research labs funds… (after covering the increased electricity costs of the mining operation!).

 

via BBC News – US national agency computers misused to mine bitcoins.

the following is a Q&A I gave as part of my being guest editor of Cloud Pro last week…

Q&A with Will Venters | Cloud Pro.

Why in the 21st century are websites going down because of peaks in demand. (BBC News – Apology for crashed Get Safe Online anti-hack site). If the cloud is about anything it is about scalability using pooling of resources to ensure resilience. Famously Animoto scaled from 50 servers to 3500 servers over three days as its services demand went viral and ballooned – with the service continuing to run as it relied upon Amazon Web Services. Given this is a website about getting information out to the public rather than keeping it secure there must be a case for web hosting on AWS, Azure or Rackspace ….

 

I enjoyed commenting on the following article during my day guest-editing CloudPro – see my side-bar.

G-Cloud providers call for co-location CloudStore clean-up | Cloud Pro.