Blessay:Cloud Computing Not “Essential Service”, More Like “Public Transport”

I believe that Cloud Computing is unlikely to become Essential Service, but will be more like Public Transport — cheap, mass mar­ket, lim­ited func­tion and “accept­able” for some.

Internets of Interest:21 Dec 09

Collection of use­ful, rel­ev­ant or inane places on the the Internets for 21 Dec 09:

Networking Is Cloud Ready. But Where Is Network Management ?

Doug Gourlay recently pos­tu­lated that the Networking Industry was not ready for Cloud Computing, and there are no answers to the tech­nical chal­lenges that lie ahead. What a load of tosh. All we need is pas­tel col­ours and roun­ded corners and we are there.

Blessay:Cisco UCS Really Is Just Blade Servers With Fancy NICs & A Response to HP Network Ambition

I found some inform­a­tion today, real­ised that UCS is really serv­ers with fancy NICs. It also rein­forced my belief that Cisco is respond­ing to HP & IBM, not attack­ing them.

Humour:Cloud Computing — a Visual Tale

I saw this pic­ture today titled “Blue Sky Thinking”. I was struck by its Cloud Computing references.….

Network Fabric:TRILL for Server and Network People. Welcome RBridges

TRILL is a key net­work tech­no­logy for enabling Cloud Computing by allow­ing for bet­ter migra­tions of VM’s, and bet­ter util­isa­tion of the net­work switch­ing fab­ric and much improved sta­bil­ity of the Data Centre Server Fabric.

The Greatest Risk to Cloud Computing ? The Vista Effect.

Everyday brings news of another fail­ure of a “Cloud Computing” ser­vice. It won’t take much in the cur­rent eco­nomic cli­mate for the mar­ket to take a “Vista view” and not buy it.

5 Things About Cisco Announcement and a Wrap Up[Post Prandial]

So Cisco announced it Intel Servers today. Its kind of excit­ing if you are into Data Centers and Virtualisation. They have done some­thing very different.

Top 5 Things About the Cisco Data Centre 3.0 Announcement Today [Humour]

Just before the much bal­ly­hooed launch of Cisco sup­posed serv­ers, let look at Etherealmind’s Top 5 Things about Cisco’s launch today.

Windows Azure Signals Start of Misty Computing — Microsoft Will Always Sell to the Enterprise

Everyone is con­grat­u­lat­ing Microsoft for their new Cloud Computer thingie — Azure. All I see is pub­lic beta for Corporate Cloud Service.