John Treadway is the author of CloudBzz (http://cloudbzz.com) and is Director of Cloud Computing Solutionsat Unisys. He's a senior enterprise technology marketing and business development executive with significant experience across horizontal IT and financial technology markets. John has founded or co-founded three companies and currently consults to a variety of technology businesses on marketing, strategy and cloud computing opportunities. Sites/Blogs
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Latest Blogs from John Treadway
 Yes, this is a delayed post. But hey, I’m busy.
The Eucalyptus – AWS announcement last week was really a great case of Much Ado About Nothing. Marten Mickos is a great marketer, and the positioning in this story was almost magical. For a while there it seemed that Amazon had trul...Apr. 5, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 829 |
 It was widely reported today that Eucalyptus had struck some kind of deal with Amazon. The details of the deal, unfortunately, have been lacking. There’s no press release on either the AWS or Eucalyptus web sites or that I can find through Google News, PR Newswire, BusinessWire or ot...Mar. 22, 2012 11:06 PM EDT Reads: 960 |
 Despite the fact that cloud is part of the daily conversation in many enterprises, I still find a significant gap in many places in terms of a true understanding of that it means. This is somewhat compounded by the reliance on standard definitions of cloud computing from NIST and other...Mar. 17, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,780 |
 Simon Wardley and I had a quick exchange about the sloppily written and factually inaccurate writing of Wired’s Jon Stokes. Simon commented about a November post on Wired CloudLine.
I’m sorry, but if you’re renting out your cloud, it’s public – so you’re building a public cloud and yo...Jan. 30, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,699 |
 The FBI seized popular upload site Megaupload.com yesterday. They took the site down and now own the servers.
I am not an attorney, and I have no opinion on whether or not the MegaUpload guys were breaking laws or encouraging users to violate copyrights through illegal uploading and ...Jan. 23, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,960 |
 The cloud stack market continues to go through waves and gyrations, but increasingly now the future is becoming more clear. As I have been writing about for a while, the number of competitors in the market for “cloud stacks” is totally unsustainable. There are really only four “camps...Oct. 23, 2011 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,238 |
 You’d think as we head into the waning months of 2011 that there’d be little left to discuss regarding the definition of cloud IT. Well, not quite yet.
Having spent a lot of time with clients working on their cloud strategies and planning, I’ve come to learn that the definition of cl...Aug. 18, 2011 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,483 |
 TechCrunch reported today that Citrix has acquired Cloud.com for > $200m. This is a great exit for a very talented team at Cloud.com and I’m not surprised at their success. Cloud.com has had great success in the market, especially in the last 12 months. This is both in the service p...Jul. 13, 2011 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,939 |
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 A new year is often a time for reflection on the past and pondering the future. 2010 was certainly a momentous year for cloud computing. An explosion of tools for creating clouds, a global investment rush by service providers, a Federal “cloud first” policy, and more. But in the wor...Jan. 3, 2011 08:40 AM EST Reads: 4,669 |
Ok, I know that this is dangerous. Randy is a very smart guy and he has a lot [...] Nov. 22, 2010 02:57 PM EST Reads: 386 |
A recurring challenge I have with a lot of enterprise vendor “cloud” solutions I get briefed on is [...] Nov. 17, 2010 09:50 AM EST Reads: 302 |
Despite the NoSQL hype, traditional relational databases are not going away any time soon. In fact, based on continued market evolution and development, SQL is very much alive and doing well. I won't debate the technical merits of SQL vs. NoSQL here, even if I were qualified to do so... Nov. 8, 2010 10:39 AM EST Reads: 648 |
At Interop this week I met with Doug Oathout, VP of Converged Infrastructure at HP. It’s often been [...] Oct. 22, 2010 12:32 PM EDT Reads: 499 |
 I was first briefed on the Savvis Symphony VPDC (virtual private data center) back at Cloud Expo NYC in April of this year and had intended to post about it back then, or at least when they went live in July… so much for good intentions… They are starting to market this more heavily no...Oct. 11, 2010 03:51 PM EDT Reads: 3,511 |
After my recent post on EC2 Micro instances, I received a great comment from Robert Jenkins over at [...] Sep. 14, 2010 09:57 AM EDT Reads: 344 |
In a fairly uncharacteristic move, CSC rejected a traditionally strong “not invented here” syndrome and has joined forces with [...] Sep. 13, 2010 11:44 AM EDT Reads: 486 |
Amazon’s announcement of Micro Instances this week ist great news for web sites who need a lower-capacity intense [...] Sep. 10, 2010 02:58 PM EDT Reads: 811 |
 I spent a couple of days in Austin at HostingCon, meeting with a broad cross-section of the hosting community. Rackspace CTO John Engates and lots of other “Rackers” were there to promote OpenStack. Most of the other big mass-market shared hosters were there too – like The Planet, Ho...Jul. 21, 2010 10:48 PM EDT Reads: 2,423 |
 [openstack] Late yesterday, Rackspace launched OpenStack with a reasonable community of boosters. OpenStack aims to disrupt the cloud stack red ocean with a complete open source release of the Rackspace CloudServers compute and CloudFiles object storage systems for use by anybody. Imp...Jul. 19, 2010 09:49 AM EDT Reads: 3,224 |
 It seems like every day there’s a new company touting their infrastructure stack. In recent weeks we’ve seen new offerings fromNimbula and Cloud.com. I’m sure I’m missing some, but I show 20 solutions for building clouds below, and I am sure that more are on their way. The market ce...Jul. 13, 2010 03:51 PM EDT Reads: 2,402 |
“If you don’t know your destination, any road will do.” That little nugget from one of my colleagues [...] Jul. 12, 2010 10:38 AM EDT Reads: 445 |
 Last week I got into a nice discussion on Twitter regarding the role of open source in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) stack. With open source cloud stacks from Eucalyptus, Cloud.com, Abiquo and others competing against proprietary source solutions from Enomaly, VMware and other...Jul. 6, 2010 06:20 PM EDT Reads: 2,681 |
 I have no doubt in my mind that Thomas Edison, were he alive today, would instantly spot the real value of cloud computing. Most people think it’s the economics. To one of history’s most prolific inventors, cloud computing would mean innovation. You see, cloud isn’t just about how ch...Jun. 22, 2010 07:51 PM EDT Reads: 2,943 |
 Once again, Gartner has publicized entirely useless and (worse) misleading numbers on the global market for cloud computing services. Their numbers from last year were disputed by me (here, and here) and several others, yet they kept to their fataly flawed methodology for the 2010 upd...Jun. 22, 2010 11:53 AM EDT Reads: 4,851 |
 One part of the debate on cloudonomics that often gets overlooked is the effect of over-provisioning. Many people look at the numbers and say they can run a server for less money than they can buy the same capacity in the cloud. And, assuming that you optimize the utilization of that s...Jun. 14, 2010 03:01 PM EDT Reads: 2,503 |
One part of the debate on cloudonomics that often gets overlooked is the effect of over-provisioning. Many people [...] Jun. 8, 2010 02:13 PM EDT Reads: 1,487 |
The state of solid matter can be converted to gas or liquid if a catalyst (chemical, heat, etc.) [...] Jun. 7, 2010 12:31 PM EDT Reads: 519 |
On a fairly regular basis I get into a discussion with people that starts something like this:
Hey John, [...] May. 18, 2010 07:37 PM EDT Reads: 266 |
The enterprise market is a bit like a a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. On [...] Apr. 28, 2010 12:26 AM EDT Reads: 275 |
Here is a little story I tweeted last night…
ONCE Upon a Cloud, there was a big river that [...] Apr. 16, 2010 09:34 AM EDT Reads: 230 |
