Inside Enterprise IT

At Cloud World/Open Source World earlier this month I grabbed some time with Forrester’s “Mr. Cloud” James Staten.  I wanted to get his take on Cloud Computing and what was hot and what is not.  Here is the result:

Some of the things James talks about:

• How the conversation about cloud has changed over the last year.
• He spends a lot of time telling people what the cloud is not.
• The three things they’ve learned (coming soon to Forrester report near you):
  • First thing to do in the cloud is test and development
  • Organizations can take short term web promotions and marketing efforts and drop them into the cloud (witness Wendy’s 99c promotion)
  • Put apps that are triggered by revenue into the cloud
• Rather that “Public vs Private” clouds, Forrester segments it into “internal vs. hosted vs. public
• Cloud is not an all or nothing proposition, it’s another tool in the toolkit.

Pau for now…