Brian McCallion holds a graduate degree and is a keynote speaker at Wall Street community Cloud Computing events. As a result of publicity from such work, New York-based Venture Capital seek Brian’s uniquely informed perspective on the business and technology dynamics of the Cloud. As founder of one of New York City’s early application service providers, a seasoned web application, and middleware architect, Brian’s 20 year focus on business, applications, and infrastructure enrich and shape strategies to interpret, anticipate, and leverage what has now come to be called “The Cloud.”
As applications move to SaaS Data Providers need to focus on the opportunity to deliver customizable data components in the style and in the context in which developers, architects imagine and build SaaS applications could greatly accelerate the adoption of “uber catalogs” of all thing...Mar. 6, 2012 05:30 AM EST Reads: 2,266
I've been working on Enterprise Cloud Strategy and in the course of this work identified some interesting and non-obvious opportunities in the Cloud.
One solution I’ve examined is the well-crafted solution that is enStratus. enStratus has built a SaaS Cloud Management / Governance p...
While Steve Jobs deserves full credit for incredible achievements not only at NEXT and Pixar, I believe what enabled Steve Jobs to succeed at Apple was his application of the "Apple Brand" to the iPod. Apple Computer always had a cult-like group of followers who were willing to pay a r...
Surveys report that companies fear the Public Cloud. Sure enough there's much to fear. Those of us who follow the media know how in a movie like Caddyshack even at a fancy private golf club an innocent little candy bar can result in a stampede of people desperate to exit the pool and ...
Apple really has nothing to do with the problems firms like RIM and HP face. I wrote a month ago that the move to the Cloud would result in major vendor extinction. While HP is building Next Generation Data Centers for some large enterprises, I’ve found it difficult to accept HP as an ...
Open standards are a nice idea. And democracy is a great idea too, all citizens can vote, yet we only have two real parties representing us. Similarly, I think that standards start out as a good idea, yet over time may start to become ineffective. For the most part standards committees...
I've been further researching the platform / web services ecosystem. It is an interesting area bc it seems the intellectual property questions are still being articulated. It also seems that few firms are aware of the issues, let alone understand how this area of concern could deeply i...
On June 7th @cloudexpo I attended a presentation on Eucalyptus by Rich Wolski (founder and CTO of Eucalyptus, known to throw lightning bolts from Mount Olympus when he thinks nobody is looking. He certainly threw a few during his presentation @ CloudExpo that most people didn't notice...
To me the strategy of splintering the concept of Cloud Computing into false constructs of Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud sounds like a tone-deaf rendition of Dr. Suess's Do You Like Green Eggs and Ham? And in this retelling of the story, both the person beseached to try gree...
Cloud computing has essentially been private from the beginning. Google, for one, demonstrates that the world’s most successful search engine runs not on an IBM Power, Sun Enterprise, or other massively powerful machine engineered for business by the go-to-vendors for computer solution...
While much discussion of the cloud assumes the needs and concerns of large enterprises will determine how the cloud evolves, in fact AAPL, MSFT, DELL, AMZN signal that the migration of the fragmented $444B annual SMB tech spend from small datacenters to the cloud will redefine the indu...
