Teutonic Knight

Cloud Computing: Its Evolution Depends on Economics

Greg,

I always enjoyed your articles, and this one is no exception. However, as you alluded and even insinuate your employer infoblox many times in passing, I wonder if you could just tell us some of the accomplishments and/or product and services that are unique of infoblox in the Cloud Computing arena. Hopefully of course this would not disclose any proprietary information or compromise any company plans. But I guess, like many other interested readers, we'd like to learn something from you as an innovative leader.

Teutonic

High-Tech Votes for the Future

I would echo Ricard's sentiment on Microsoft.

MSFT's performance as the World's #1 pioneering software company had been lackluster at best. They had been consistently behind the curve in ventures such as web portal, web content, browser, emails, mobile handset, smart phone (again late entry here, of late) and almost anything other than Windows to put it bluntly. Correct me if you will, are they becoming a de facto single product company?

And all that came on top of a company with over 150,000 headcounts. With such a large army and yet so little real outputs, one wonders if indeed it had succumbed to layers and layers of management and complacency. They doled out millions of dollars around the world to fund "research" in these tranquil and quaint lay back labs (Cambridge University). In the world of IT, the guy down at the trenches knows more and knows better than the ivory tower man. Some say that IT "research" is a dirty word.

MSFT needs to re-invent itself as soon. Microsoft seems to exist in a cloud up there and remote from the users. First of, they need to reach out more to its users. Perception is reality. When perception becomes reality, it is already too late.

Maybe the Board would consider planning for a leadership transition to user in someone with more vision, innovation, and just pure down-to-eary business acumen rather than the one with the pin-stiped suits, starched white shirt, and $350 leather shoes.

The Coming Network Revolution

Greg,

Very good article. You sounded like a wonderful tech evangelist. I have one question for you. (I don't ask question that I think I have the answer.)

Is the newly emerging Semantic Web (through the much-touted Ontology Web Language of late) related in any way with the Dynamic Network Infrastructure (Infrastructure 2.0)? I suspect there would be some relationship, since the Semantic Web is supposed to be able to "reason", and the Dynamic Network (mainly web-based?) is supposedly intelligent.

Would you care to relate the two entities?

Thanks in advance.
Teutonic