High-Tech Product Design and Strategy

At this point, I am sure that you are as saturated as I am about hearing the term Cloud used in the wrong places.  I often find myself explaining to customers that the software that those vendors want to sell them is not technically Cloud. This post represents my attempt to get us all on the same page on what is true Cloud Computing and what is not; what is IaaS and what is isn't; what is real PaaS and what is fake PaaS; and what is SaaS and what is just a Web App.  All my points below are absolutely debatable, and I am sure that many readers may disagree in some of the gray areas, but at least, this is how I (and many others in the Cloud space) understand this paradigm labeled as "Cloud".   News Flash Technology Vendors: It is perfectly OK to have a software or hardware solution that has nothing to do with Cloud!  You do not need to claim to have a Cloud solution in order to get legitimized.  My advice to the traditional...

I had the privilege of being interviewed by the cloud legend Richard Morrell also found in twitter as @EMEACloudGuy  or in his great blog http://cloudevangelist.org . I was part of one of his neat podcast series available in iTunes . We covered the state of the cloud landscape with more emphasis in Platform-as-a-Service PaaS, with even narrower focus, obviously, on my product: OpenShift . There is a lot exciting stuff going on in the Red Hat and OpenShift worlds these days, and I tried to share that excitement with the audience through concrete announcements, facts, releases, features, plans, and many other pretty interesting data points. I hope you find it useful and enjoy it as much as I did. Here it is the link of the interview's audio: http://cloudevangelist.org/2012/12/12/podcast-juan-noceda/

In June 2012 I had the pleasure of giving this talk at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, together with Matt Hicks , we covered the present and future of Platform as a Service (PaaS) through the eyes of OpenShift , the cloud product that I manage at Red Hat . Since OpenShift moves very fast you may want to complement the info on this video with the content of this OpenShift Roadmap blog post that I added a few weeks ago on OpenShift.com . Fore even more frequent updates follow me on Twitter . The content of the video can be helpful for the non-technical person that just want to know more about the benefits of Cloud, Big Data, and PaaS, as well as for the Developer or IT Manager that wants to know the technical details: features, how OpenShift works, the open source project OpenShift Origin, and more. Watch the video by clicking here Stay up to date on this and related topics by following me on twitter: @Juan_Noceda

No! this is not 1999! No, you are not living in the times in which Netscape lost its browser kingdom to Microsoft and developers discovered the magic of client-side web programming thanks to Brendan Erich 's creation: an  ECMA script dialect called JavaScript. Netscape is no longer around trying to convince us that iPlanet is THE web server, and JavaScript is THE web application server-side language to rule the WWW. No more Microsoft telling us that VBScript is the way to go for ASP, but just in case you didn't not like it they also offeredd JScript . There is no more pushing by IBM promoting Lotus Domino (Today positioned as"enterprise social" platform) as a web programming environment, suggesting an "efficient?" programming language salad that used to mix: formul@ language, Java, JavaScript, a pseudo VB and VBScript as the ideal solution to code for the desktop, the documents, the intranet, the internet, and everything else that may come up in f...

As you have been noticing there is a great deal of momentum around cloud computing, perhaps propelled by the massive marketing investment around it. Actually, many of us at this point may feel a little saturated by reading and hearing every day how "cloudy" each new product offering claims to be. The Cloud is still in its infancy (Real Scene in a Day Care) But at the same time I believe that we all get the point and we can see the real and undeniable advantages behind the cloud-way of doing things, from simple things like having all our music or photos everywhere all the time and playing them from each of our devices, to update my documents or data from my laptop or from my uncle's old PC without installing a single piece of software or moving a single file around, or to the most advanced cases like having an entire multi server development, testing, and runtime platform to host my enterprise applications without doing the administration of a single piece of soft...

Thanks Gordon Haff for the interview about cloud trends , the PaaS market, OpenShift growth, JBoss relevance, the importance of Big Data or NoSQL, and the Node.JS momentum . Here is the audio podcast and transcript