Pyramid of needs for Cloud management 22 Apr 2013 | 01:21 am

PaaS lets you pick the right tool for the job, without having to worry about the additional operational complexity 30 Dec 2012 | 01:06 pm

In a recent blog post, Dan McKinley explains “Why MongoDB Never Worked Out at Etsy“. In short, the usefulness of using MongoDB in addition to their existing MySQL didn’t justify the additional operati...

Big Data career adviser says you should be a… Big Data analyst 11 Dec 2012 | 11:13 am

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner wrote an interesting post on “the future of LinkedIn and the economic graph“. There’s a lot to like about his vision. The part about making education and career choices better...

Ovum on Cloud evolution 22 Nov 2012 | 10:21 am

By Laurent Lachal: Two years ago, Ovum expected SaaS to evolve towards business process-as-a-service (BPaaS). The transition has already started. For example, Oracle’s SaaS strategy does not focus on ...

Are you the dumb money in the Cloud? 19 Oct 2012 | 10:55 am

Another paper came out measuring the performance diversity of Cloud VMs within the same advertised type. Here’s the paper (PDF), here are the slides (PDF) and here is the video (this was presented bac...

The enterprise Cloud battle will be an integration battle 11 Oct 2012 | 12:52 pm

The real threat the Cloud poses for incumbent enterprise software vendors is not the obvious one. It’s not about hosting. Sure, they would prefer if nothing changed and they could stick to shipping so...

Will Clouds run on Clouds? 6 Oct 2012 | 01:27 am

Or, more precisely, will enterprise Solution Clouds run on Deployment Clouds? I’ve previously made the case that we shouldn’t include SaaS in the “Cloud” (rather, it’s just Web apps). Obvioulsy my gui...

Joining Google 1 Oct 2012 | 11:48 pm

Next Monday, I will start at Google, in the Cloud Platform team. I’ve been watching that platform, and especially Google App Engine (GAE), since it started in 2008. It shaped my thoughts on Cloud Comp...

Good-bye Oracle 26 Sep 2012 | 11:09 pm

Tomorrow will be my last day at Oracle. It’s been a great 5 years. By virtue of my position as architect for the Application and Middleware Management part of Oracle Enterprise Manager, I got to work ...

Google Compute Engine, the compete engine 29 Jun 2012 | 02:16 pm

Google is going to give Amazon AWS a run for its money. It’s the right move for Google and great news for everyone. But that wasn’t plan A. Google was way ahead of everybody with a PaaS solution, Goo...