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IT Analyst Dan Kusnetzky Talks about Cloud Computing and Cloud Hype (Video)
Dan Kusnetzky and I started out talking about cloud computing; what it is and isn't, how "cloud" is often more of a marketing term than a technical one, and then gradually drifted to the topic of how IT managers, CIOs, and their various bosses make decisions and how those decisions are not necessarily rational. What you have here is an 18-minute seminar about IT decision-making featuring one of the world's most experienced IT industry analysts, who also writes a blog, Virtually Speaking, for ZDnet.
I'll tell you about a cloud. Or rather, I'll tell you about a whole bunch of clouds. Clouds floating over the Zimmerman trial, waiting, just waiting to pour down rain and lightning and thunder and death upon all those racists that are trying to let that murderer go free. If Zimmerman goes free, us African Americans will gather in force and burn down everything in Florida, and kill everyone! Zimmerman is the real monster here, not Trayvon. Us African Americans just want to live our lives without having to worry about strange people coming up to us and killing us. And that is why if he is set free we will run around Florida killing as many white and hispanic people as we can. We'll see how YOU creepy ass crackers like it. We'll rape your women, kill your babies, eat your dogs and cats, burn down your homes and businesses, and then we'll kill all of the cops. For too long we have been enslaved, and now we will take back our country by FORCE. Black Power.
With all the articles on flash security and users tracking, I find it amazing that slashdot of all places would force is on its audience.
i.e., WTF is the transcript link at?
If it's called "client/server architecture", then it's probably okay. If it's called "cloud", then it's shit.
Oh, by the way, I haven't watched the video.
....about cloud computing is that Deutsche Borse is opening a Cloud Exchange, in a few months, to essentially commodify cloud computing, which would allow the same activities to take place as those oil/energy and other commodity exchanges: speculate prices upwards, various financial manipulation, etc.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/04/deutsche-borse-to-open-cloud-exchange/
The super-rich want to extract every last drop from us, including exerting control over the Web.
What is cloud computing? Simple: lies, lies and bullshit. That's all. http://kingofgng.com/eng/2013/07/10/the-many-lies-of-cloud-computing/
I stopped watching after three minutes.
The first two minutes were like "Cloud computing for kindergartners". In minute three he referenced a Dilbert comic, which is bad. He got the reference wrong, which is even worse. (Here's the comic in question for anyone who still cares about Dilbert: http://dhansen.cs.georgefox.edu/~dhansen/Classes/DBMS/sqldb.gif)
Perhaps this fellow had some brilliant stuff to say in minutes 4-18.... perhaps not.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-17/
I stopped watching after three minutes.
I got to 8 minutes because they reminded me of the two old guys in the stalls from the Muppets (there's no content before the 8min mark either).
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if you want to sell or market cloud services in any way, this is a good interview. thanks!
Man reveals the simple truth about Cloud Computing!
Marketing and Sales hate him.
I wonder is one of his "major" clients enjoys his sense of humour...
all you need to know
If you transcribe it as it was recorded, it'll be in light-grey on white.
Dilbert Cloud Strip
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
Nailed it with the Dilbert comic. I mean *nobody* jumped on the SQL database bandwagon fad.
So far, posts are being a bit harsh.
The only serious criticism I would offer is they chose the wrong audience for an interview like this: I suspect slashdot is more about practicing technologists & hobbyists, Kusnetsky's observations seemed like they'd be more useful to CIO-level, enterprise architects, or perhaps non-techies that need to cope with clouds.
I thought Kusnetsky made some useful distinctions; "cloud = buzzword marketing" vs. "cloud what's different", and who in reality is actually doing cloud things. Kusnetsky was also concerned about how to measure what people are actually doing at an industry level; I thought that was interesting, since (as a practitioner) I tend to focus on specific projects, one implementation at a time. *shrug* they're looking at the "cloud thing" from a different perspective than I do, which I thought was interesting.
r.e. the Dilbert Example (remembered: Dilbert: "Do you want red or blue database?" vs. actual (dilbert: "What color do you want that database?" Boss: "I think Mauve has the most ram."), it was a fine point - it got the idea across (e.g. sometimes management runs with trade-magazine fads without understanding it), even if he didn't correctly quote canonical Scott Adams.
execution: the sound was rough, especially bad on the interviwer's side (very hard to understand what Roblimio was saying). That made it harder to watch than it needed to be. I probably won't recommend this video to anybody because the content was rough enough it wasn't worth trying to sift through and find gems of ideas... maybe the transcript will be better.