Comments on: more thoughts on “the cloud”

By: bonnie larner

bonnie larner — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:55:53 +0000

Hugh, your description of things suddenly coming together is soooooooooo good — the pre-eureka moment.
” It’s hard to explain– it’s visceral; it’s like you can just smell it, even if it remains so far invisible. It’s just there. A feeling.“
Can you cartoon it? Please. Pretty please.
bonnie

By: Radovan Semancik

Radovan Semancik — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:22:58 +0000

Cloud? Is that the next Web 2.0, SOA, dot-com, client-server or substite-any-other-hype-here? There is a lot of practical problems. The technology is far, far away from the "cloud". More here: http://storm.alert.sk/blog/software/network-and-nodes.html

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:06:28 +0000

A cloud computing system is only as reliable as the hardware and software that it is built upon. I have a feeling people are going to get their fingers burnt a few times before the cloud becomes a permanent place of work.
It definitely has its uses though… Loving Evernote and a couple of other cloud systems. However most of them suck some what partially completed, little or no mobile interaction and no focus. They’ll learn one day.
Keep up the blogging. Your recent content has been more interesting than usual. Been hanging around Steve Clayton again
An interesting question for your readers… where do they see the bottleneck in cloud computing…

By: Dan D. Gutierrez

Dan D. Gutierrez — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:19:25 +0000

By Dan D. Gutierrez
CEO of HostedDatabase.com
As the developer of the web’s first Database-as-a-Service provider in 1999, we’re delighted that the industry we helped pioneer is finally gaining the respect it is due. To be sure, on-premise software is never going to disappear, but SaaS is such a vaulable option to companies large and small.
We’re looking forward to continued cloud growth!

By: Joaquín

Joaquín — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:20:11 +0000

At last it will be OK to have our heads where they rightfully belong: in the Cloud.
Thanks for the insights Hugh.

By: Leon Jacobs

Leon Jacobs — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:55:09 +0000

Well it's all about the connections ain't it? There are two things I'd like to add in to the mix. Not just is everything moving into the cloud, it's also mutating into more adaptable blocks. I can read almost all of my content in a container of my liking because of XML and RSS. The cloud might be the place. Feeds might be the way. Also, have you looked at this little venture: http://www.scripped.com It's screenwriting meets cloud computing. Another interesting connection.

By: Amrita Chandra

Amrita Chandra — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:35:00 +0000

Taking this to an even more fundamental level, this is not about the technology. To paraphrase Hugh it is about human interactions.
It is about the way our society has evolved to expect a greater degree of mobility — starting with their personal lifestyle (everyone expects to be able to check email or get internet access literally anywhere in the world) and now expect that mobility to transfer to the work environment. I think the two feed off each other — more clouds = more mobility = more demand for clouds.

By: Mary Anne Davis

Mary Anne Davis — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:12:05 +0000

I am paying more attention to the cloud thing because of you. As for this post, I would love a little more about the cloud thing, or, maybe I could Google it. As for 5K suits, that is why I started blogging. thx

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:01:26 +0000

“the cloud” — an ingenious way for power to travel away from individuals and back to monoliths.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:52:40 +0000

That smell… it’s the smell of rain from the approaching Cloud as it kicks up the dust (to badly paraphrase Thoreau).
And the Cloud, I don’t see a dinosaur or Blue Monster in it, but perhaps an animal of another kind. Maybe Dell needs a mascot.