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 ... (more)

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 comm... (more)

Ideas for Maximizing Revenue and Positioning and Accelerating the Adoption of On-Demand Data and Integration as a Service 1) Publish pre-built integration components to sites, or communities such as: a. Heroku Add-ons http://addons.heroku.com/ Reason. Developers of many types of app... (more)

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 ... (more)

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... (more)

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While Steve Jobs deserves full credit for incredible achievements not only at NEXT and Pixar, I believe what enabled him 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 re... (more)

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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 poo... (more)

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 ... (more)

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 comm... (more)

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 articulated. It also seems that few firms are aware of the issues, let alone understand how t... (more)

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 ... (more)

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 Cloud, Hybrid Cloud sounds like a tone-deaf rendition of Dr. Suess's Do You Like ... (more)

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 so... (more)

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 th... (more)

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 Ce... (more)

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... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other cont... (more)

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... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other cont... (more)

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... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more... (more)