By Brian McCallion  This article addresses some of the important questions a colleague raised Friday afternoon about how and if the demands of Cloud Computing can or must be “slotted” in to fit the rest of the IT organization.
This writer (highly regarded thought leader focused on Enterprise Cloud Comput... Apr. 23, 2012 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 342 |
By Brian McCallion  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... Mar. 7, 2012 05:45 AM EST Reads: 5,114 |
By Brian McCallion  Although I favor Google in this litigation, I (as a layman) consider Oracle assertion that intellectual property copyright protection applies to APIs worth considering in the context of Cloud applications, SaaS, and the mobile application build-out that is reshaping the software and (a... Feb. 27, 2012 06:45 AM EST Reads: 3,149 |
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I’m starting to see a lot of common cultural ground between HP and RIM.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 Cente... Aug. 23, 2011 02:50 PM EDT Reads: 360 |
By Brian McCallion Based on thoughts I have after responding quickly to this question posted on Focus.com
To me the strategy of splintering the concept of Cloud Computing into false constructs of Public Cloud, Private...
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By Brian McCallion Back in April 2011 during my keynote presentation at Financial Technology Forums Wall Street Breakfast Briefing, I cited Xignite as a building block, or participant in a Cloud web services ecosystem...
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By Brian McCallion 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...
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By Brian McCallion Undertakers taking self-portrait in graveyard.
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...
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By Brian McCallion Jul. 16, 2011 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 824 |
By Brian McCallion Winners and Losers (Microsoft) in EA-PopCap Deal - Deal Journal - WSJ
Since I last wrote about the game space, the forces of the marketplace has become more visible to me, and I think the central...
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By Brian McCallion Jul. 13, 2011 02:32 PM EDT Reads: 1,470 |
By Brian McCallion ATVI's World of Warcraft
Note the advanced used of Business
Analytics! Hmm...
Today Reuters reports that the CEO of Blizzard Activision is in talks with Rupert Mudoch to buy...
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By Brian McCallion A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the forces I see shaping Cloud Computing at the industry level. The fundamental idea is that Cloud Computing, while not specifically about technology, so changes...
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By Brian McCallion  A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the forces I see shaping Cloud Computing at the industry level. The fundamental idea is that Cloud Computing, while not specifically about technology, so changes the technology industry dynamics, as to create a new ecosystem of vendor and supplier re... Jul. 8, 2011 02:54 PM EDT Reads: 1,512 |
By Brian McCallion Predictive analytics I can actually use! CabSense New York: The Smartest Way to Find a Cab
Actually, I've been working on some really interesting application with Nissim Karpenstein. We're...
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By Brian McCallion Predictive analytics I can actually use! CabSense New York: The Smartest Way to Find a Cab
Actually, I've been working on some really interesting application with Nissim Karpenstein. We're buildin Jul. 1, 2011 02:48 PM EDT Reads: 513 |
By Brian McCallion PrivateCollection integration with Google
Goggles to power a whole new way of managing private
fine arts collections
PrivateCollection and Google Goggles to transform art market.
We've been...
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By Brian McCallion I've often wondered what would happen if the treadmills in NYC gyms could be fitted with the ability to generate and store electricity. But this would both and easy a hard problem to solve in real...
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By Brian McCallion I love this question, even though it's out of my area of expertise. I'm not certain we ever had focus on the value of the customer. In the US as far as I can tell customer focus has most always been...
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By Brian McCallion [This rambles, but I decided to publish first then edit over the next couple of days. I start out looking at the nature of web services interfaces and in the process leap to the story of how...
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By Brian McCallion Jun. 27, 2011 05:28 PM EDT Reads: 212 |
By Brian McCallion Humble beginnings. But I'm glad that the platform does a lot of the heavy lifting and helps to enable features that were otherwise out of reach on my budget. If this is a true tech bubble I will...
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By Brian McCallion What's the most you ever
lost on a coin toss?
While much discussion of the cloud assumes the needs and concerns of large enterprises will determine how the Cloud evolves, in fact AAPL, MSFT,...
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By Brian McCallion Are APIs the New Black?
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...
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By Brian McCallion  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 Small and Medium Business tech spend from small "office / cubicle" datace... Jun. 14, 2011 07:23 PM EDT Reads: 2,104 |
By Brian McCallion The Difference Between Public and Private Cloud Computing
— Cloud computing has essentially been private from the beginning. Google, for one, demonstrates that the world’s most successful search...
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By Brian McCallion Yes, the warm little center of this drum's
universe is in fact a white fluffy cloud.
I named this company long before the cloud. Yet I selected the name "Bronze Drum Consulting" because I believe...
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By Brian McCallion  [This rambles, but I decided to publish first then edit over the next couple of days. I start out looking at the nature of web services interfaces and in the process leap to the story of how Eucalyptus started by setting the goal of creating an Amazon AWS interface indistinguishable fr... Jun. 8, 2011 07:11 AM EDT Reads: 1,460 |
By Brian McCallion Yes, that's me at the microphone.
Recently I delivered a speech on the cloud that created a stir and set the frame for conceptualizing the event. Once I started trying to figure out what I was...
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By Brian McCallion Rescue Plan Strained by Lack of Staff - WSJ.com
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By Brian McCallion In Japan, Currency Traders Stay in Game - WSJ.com
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By Brian McCallion How Cloud Computing Will Change Business - BusinessWeek
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By Brian McCallion Implications:
vSphere represents the fruition of the product roadmap Paul Maritz introduced at VMWorld 2008 in Las Vegas. So it's not actually a new announcement. vSphere is big news because it...
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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.”
