Parker Harris, SFDC cofounder and head of development discusses why the company has moved past its Cloud 2 mantra.
(Source: informationweek.com)
Buffett steps into the cloud with his bet on Big Blue
FT explains why:
“Big Blue’s real secret weapon: a software business that has been the main driver of its earnings and margin growth. There is little natural operating leverage in services, which relies on hiring more people the more work there is to do. But software has given IBM a way to enshrine repeatable processes in code, increasing the bang for the buck it gets from its services engagements.”
Thank you nice Tumblr, for lucidly explaining the Google App Engine price changes.
“The old pricing model charged for the wrong thing. The overwhelming vast majority of web applications use very little CPU; processes spend most of their time blocked waiting for I/O (datastore fetches, url…
(Source: jeffschnitzer)
Cloud Foundry is what I’m most exicted to see at VMWorld.
Unfortunately it’s held in Las Vegas this year (VMworld already has a bit of a corporate/booth babe/sales-y atmosphere, I’m not sure Las Vegas will help make it more down to earth. But at least late-night food will be easy to find, nom!).
(Source: cloudfoundryblogblog)
Accelerating returns via Cloud architectures - Gartner Catalyst, John Seely Brown (1hr 6min)
JSB Keynote builds context by showing management practices of pushing decisions down and protecting knowledge has led to diminishing returns.
A new era of organizing companies to continually learn new knowledge via Pull and Flows requires getting more people to participate in systems, and this requires cloud architectures. Because opening the enterprise to the outside requires provisioning for uncertainty. Inside the enterprise returns accelerate because the ability to learn new knowledge and benefit from it accelerates.
Once this is clear, decisions such as embedding policy in code or not, SQL vs NoSQL become strikingly simple.
