A few blocks from my home there is a sushi restaurant. The other day, when I went there for some take-out food, I met a parent from the elementary school of my kids, with his daughter. I hardly recognized her, because it had been a couple of years. He still looks familiar, because I pass […]
As I am sipping on my café americano in the Starbucks near the Friedrichstrasse railway station in Berlin, waiting for my travel back home, I look back on 3 days of Velocity Europe. Velocity is where developers and managers of large websites meet. We are talking seriously large websites here. The word most appropriate to […]
An interesting discussion is going on. Will Cloud Computing increase or decrease the number of IT people? We don’t know, the only thing we are pretty sure of is that the types of skills will be different. This article in PC world “The IT Jobs Cloud Computing Will Create” gives some fundamental reasoning, and also […]
Yesterday I had the opportunity to present at the Dutch Tooling Event.The presentation was about how service management frameworks such as ITIL could be applied to cloud computing. We have just begun to scratch the surface on that. The presentation has some introductory material on cloud computing and then shows how cloud computing changes the […]
Every ten years or so, a really big new thing upsets the entire IT industry. In the seventies it was the minicomputer, in the eighties it was the personal computer, in the nineties the Internet appeared, and over the past few years we have seen the rise of cloud computing. All these innovation have a […]
This was one of the first questions when I opened up for questions on www.clubcloudcomputing.com A lot of people have this as their first question, when they think of using Cloud Computing. And so they should! For the people who do not think about this from day one are the ones who are going to […]
A recent post on The next web prompted me to pull together a bit of interesting material on WordPress, arguable the worlds’ most popular open source software for blogging and other websites. The post on TNW talks about the history and the entire ecosystem around WordPress, with particular emphasis on the commercial opportunities and legal subtleties around […]
The next web reports on some quantifications of the Twitter Eco system. Read their report from twitter’s developer conference Twitter is the canonical example of an application where the ‘software as a service’ version is augmented through a ‘platform as a service’ version. In fact, apparently, most Twitter users do not use twitter.com.
At the Aloft W hotel at Baltimore airport I trained the first trainers for ITpreneurs’ Virtualization and Cloud Computing courses. Inspiring people to work with. Great place to do this. More info at ITpreneurs