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The Dream of the Cloud by Enrica Bressan
What is your dream for the cloud?
Is it a blob that will cause you to lose all control, including your job?
Or, is it an amazing innovation that will save your company from this world-wide recession?
Or the it's The Blob - Buy the classic @ Turner by clicking image
On April 15th, I will be fortunate enough to join Sachin Saxena from Global Logic and Mac Devine, the AIM SaaS/Cloud CTO at IBM, for a webinar to attempt to answer these questions (learn more and register here). They are both experts in internet technology and hold deep knowledge (along with beautiful slides) on the topic of cloud computing. Their goal is to help you understand the massive energy, time and computer savings made possible by the many cloud options.
Specifically, they will define the cloud, its opportunities and roadblocks. They both plan to highlight case studies, and my role will be as a customer and extensive user of cloud solutions. This is much the same role that I played at the New Jersey CIO summit in February. (If you can’t wait for the webinar – don’t miss Troy Angrignon’s opinion post at Sandhill.com about the implications on cloud computing on software firms.)
At Rally, we are very comfortable with the application of these technologies. As a 160 person SaaS firm provider, we have been in the early market for many of these technologies. It was fun for us to benefit from the fast move to free of hypervisor/virtualization portion of this wave. Listen to Mike Cote’s podcast on the topic at RedMonk. He has been covering the Cloud/virtualization for years as an open source analyst.
As a result, I believe that 100% of the companies who attend this webinar will leverage these technologies in 2009 in a strategy to reduce risk and cut costs. But what are the other rationales for the cloud? What are your stories? I think cloud/SaaS, Agile development and web 2.0 customer communities are an even bigger story, but one that will take longer to develop than the use of public/private clouds and virtualization technology.
Next up on this topic will be the actual energy savings reports from our virtualization and power management efforts lead by our internal green team.
