Industry needs to come up with more accurate metrics in order to tell the real story of the cloud. Will the big cloud providers step up? Continue reading Open Letter: Why Cloud Business Needs Better Metrics
It is five years since Salesforce acquired Heroku, making it one of the earliest bets on cloud by an incumbent software player. Salesforce won Heroku after VMware had shown maximum intent to buy the company. The occasion prompted me to look at the stock prices of Heroku’s suitors. They have moved in opposite direction. I … Continue reading Heroku, VMware, Salesforce & the cloud
My latest column in FastCompany: If the growth so far is astonishing, the big boom is yet to come and the next evolution of cloud will be driven by connected devices and growing presence of sensors in our world. (My complete column archive is available here.) Continue reading For cloud, the best is yet to come
URLs are the ingredient of the free web. [Mark Boulton] Pervasive Monitoring is an attack on free Internet. [Tim Bray] The NEW ten most annoying questions in Quantum Computing. [Scott Aaronson] [NY Times’ new fashion editor] Vanessa Friedman’s Fashion Manifesto. H.R. Giger, Surrealist Artist and “Alien” designer is dead at 74. [Rolling Stone] What do … Continue reading What I am reading today
In the age of anywhere computing… Cloud & cloud services are part of the new economic fabric. Data is now part of business strategy. Experience design will become business logic. From my post announcing our exciting RoadMap 2013 conference. It highlights the big changes in our world and how I think about technology, business and … Continue reading Cloud + Data + Experience Design = Business
