Wisdom of the Cloud?

More Big GuysAmazon and Cisco have become legitimate players, and would be moreover so when they start to release specific IaaS earnings. Salesforce.com by definition releases its official SaaS figures - nevertheless I can't help thinking of the company as an old-fashioned ASP that offers another proprietary way to deliver enterprise applications.

Recent Gartner report said

Some Bilious Stuff & One Compliment* A recent Gartner report said, essentially, that cloud computing will kill IT jobs. This topic is worthy of a book. For now, be sure that Gartner's just making stuff up here. Ignore it, even if you're one of the unfortunates who gets soaked by these guys at $100K a year or so.* I'm hardly the first to say it, however it looks like the "wisdom of crowds" is in fact more like the rule of the mobs. I don't like to blame the media, because I'm part of it. Yet to be specific, CNN and Yahoo need to stop pandering to this mob hysteria. A gay kid is beaten in junior high school and the principal doesn't react strongly enough. A drunk dad let his 9-year-old girl drive the car. A mean woman stole a foul ball from a kid at a baseball game. This sort of thing has been happening for ages. These stories are a big deal to those concerned, nevertheless should be of no concern whatsoever to the rest of us. By focusing on them, major news organizations incite and at the time report on riots that cascade across social networks; the echo chamber turning into a nightmarish house of mirrors that scares and demeans us all.Stop inciting the mob, guys. You're making us look the "the witch mob" from Monty Pyton and the Holy Grail. No wisdom of clouds here. 

* I was reading just a sampling of James Hamilton's description of Facebook's back-end management and Google's Big Table, to my total bedazzlement. The people building out these networks are the rocket scientists of our age. You try adding 250-terabytes of capacity every month, as the geniuses at Facebook do. Oh wait, most Cloud Computing Journal readers and Cloud Expo attendees do do this. Like.* And at that time there's the US government. Ay-yi-yi. It's time for the US to get out of its paranoiac security-guard mode, where every bit of violence is cast in terms of terror. The irony is that the terrorists are winning, so far, by turning the US into a raging, stumbling ogre that considers its own people to be the enemy. This attitude that will surely lead to the end of our nation. The Patriot Act. The Internet kill switch. And now, a proposed Blacklist Bill. It's as if we treated a knife wound with ceaseless complete-body radiation treatments. If we can all spend a little time each week in contacting Congress, writing, or as a rule causing trouble, maybe we can help stop the madness. We must.

BA from Knox College

Roger Strukhoff holds a BA from Knox College, Certificate in Technical Communications from UC-Berkeley, and MBA from CSU-Hayward. He won a 2009 "Stevie" American Business Award for producing the best publication in its category. He is a former Publisher at IDG and Guest Lecturer at MIT. He splits most of his time between Silicon Valley and Southeast Asia, however can as well be found at www.twitter.com/strukhoff