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By: Rick Valencia

Rick Valencia — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:11:19 +0000

re: “the Cloud is the single most threatening technology to stare down Cisco in 15 years.”

Really? Behind everything we label “virtual” there is something physical powering it. For the cloud it’s called infrastructure. Last I looked Cisco was playing a pretty big role and making quite a bit of money in infrastructure. And my guess is Cisco gets paid for their gear whether or not Amazon, et al convinces you and me to rent it as a service.

By: Kimber Lockhart

Kimber Lockhart — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:01:29 +0000

I’m not for or against AWS, but an outage of an hour or two is a huge problem when you’re building a professional offering. Try turning to your customers and saying “sorry, it’s not us, it’s Amazon”. They aren’t customers for long.

By: nobs

nobs — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:00:52 +0000

Mike-
If you’d understand something about this, and if you’d actually do your research, you wouldn’t leave comments like that. It is obvious that you are a bit slow to grasp more complicated things, so allow me to help you understand things – so you can comprehend the stupidity of your post in it’s full extent.

1-First Microsoft runs a few more things then just HOTMAIL. Here are some facts.
Microsoft main site was down Jan 26th, 2009, 11:33 GMT. Then MS download was down January 8th 2009. Also MSN was down Oct. 4th 2008, MS connect was down a few times last year. Also a variety of attacks brought down selected services. And most of the times they were down for a full day or more.
I SUGGEST YOU START LEARNING HOW TO USE A SEARCH ENGINE.

2 Amazon Outages – We are talking about the cloud computing offerings (AWS) not the book ordering. And yes they had a few outages.. but they were fixed within an hour or two. If you look at the complexities and services they offer, they are the only game in town regarding cloud computing at the moment.

3 Vista’s claim to fame. Well same thing if you’d take your head out of your back end you’d be able to see the light and smell the fresh air, before leaving comments that just show how ignorant you are.
If you click on Vic’s profile (the Gmail guy) in the article you’d learn that “In Microsoft, he was responsible for variety of products…., including ….Vista”.
I SUGGEST YOU START LEARNING ABOUT HYPERLINKS, WHEN SOMETHING GETS UNDERLINED WHEN YOU MOVE YOUR MOUSE OVER YOU CAN CLICK ON IT. YOU SHOULD TRY IT MAKES FOR A MUCH BETTER INTERNET EXPERIENCE.

Oh and while you’re at it, why don’t you show us on the teddy bear where they touched you when you were young…

By: phil dewey

phil dewey — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:24:51 +0000

Cisco has nothing to do with the cloud. In fact, the Cloud is the single most threatening technology to stare down Cisco in 15 years. I’m struggling to understand how you can claim any of these players are cloud players. You guys really wiffed on this one.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:18:07 +0000

What about Appirio? You guys did a story on them last week about their Facebook viral recruiting/marketing app that connects SFDC and Facebook. They are connecting a bunch of these PaaS’s together (Amazon, Salesforce.com, Google). I think they would definitely have an interesting perspective to add to the roundtable.

By: Peter Adams

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:43:00 +0000

Rackspace’s Mosso looks interesting.

Also anyone looked into http://www.slicehost.com ?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:55:10 +0000

funny, and EMC too:

http://www.scri...-opportunities/

and IBM:
http://www.scri...-of-the-future/

I couldn’t find Microsoft, Intel or Cisco, but a few good videos on what Amazon, EMC & IBM are doing.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:48:42 +0000

for those yearning for Amazon, here’s a presentation by Werner Vogels on cloud computing:

http://www.scri...zon-asw-s3-ec2/

By: mike

mike — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:09:35 +0000

here in England, we have an expression: “What a knob”, which sounds remarkably similar to Name.

I’m trying to recall when the last time Hotmail went down was. And I quite clearly recall a number of Amazon outages last year.

I don’t see anyone who’s claim to fame there is Vista. Perhaps you confused that with Azure, which seems to be regarded as a terrific cloud computing infrastructure.

Go back under your little bridge you Troll and leave the comments to people who know what their talking about not people who’ve had 6 cups of coffee in their mom’s basement.

By: Chris DiBona

Chris DiBona — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:20:33 +0000

How much of your time will be for this enormous panel of yours. You’re looking at 8 people + 2 moderators? Even with limited introductory time for each speaker, you’re looking at very little substantive time, unless you use the whole 3+ hours…

By: Aadil

Aadil — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:09:39 +0000

Webcast???

By: cloud

cloud — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:08:04 +0000

Let me describe cloud

” a term used by bloggers like Mike A to earn $75 off market pitches from various vendors… wake up… this should be free and if you pay 75 for this crap… you’ve just been ripped off….”

By: Rick Valencia

Rick Valencia — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:21:29 +0000

You absolutely need to include Charles Jennings on your panel. He was one of the founders of TRUSTe, founded Geotrust and is currently heading up Swan Island Networks (www.swanisland,net). I know, never heard of him or this company but trust me – look him up and call him. You will thank me.

By: J Miller

J Miller — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:18:07 +0000

What about VMware/Trango? They are giving freedom to applications on mobile phones. Then, what about the VDC-OS (Virtual Datacenter OS) and the Cloud Computing initiatives? If anyone was going to succeed, it should be the company with the software that is already publicly available.

Next, I would think Cisco and Intel would be on the list.

Lastly, a company like EMC who can ensure teh data exists in two places.

By: Ryan Graves

Ryan Graves — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:55:13 +0000

Surprising to me that their is no Amazon rep. Aren’t they the obvious player here?

By: MGZ

MGZ — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:27:55 +0000

Have you guys extended an offer to anyone at Mosso? RackSpace’s cloud offering is pretty nice. We are using it in combination with Amazon AWS.

Mosso is interesting because they have sort of combined cloud service with web hosting. So it’s not as bare-metal as EC2, but you get the benefits of an inexpensive, scaling website across a huge cluster.

They’re also competing with Amazon S3 with an offering, Amazon’s CDN with an offering, and have something in beta to compete more directly with EC2. I think they’re worth talking to.

MGZ

By: sheetal

sheetal — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:22:47 +0000

at least tell us you tried to invite Amazon, Microsoft, heck even maybe some DoD folks

By: James Urquhart

James Urquhart — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:21:03 +0000

Let me know if you want to get Cisco involved. There are some very qualified people available to talk about the network’s role in cloud computing and the “Interloud”.

By: nobs

nobs — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:08:12 +0000

Thos guys you invited are a JOKE

Right now the only viable cloud computing offer is AMAZON.

Microsoft can’t even keep their own SHlT running..so what they are doing here is a puzzle to me.

Google’s cloud offerings are mediocre at best and sales force is too limited.

Do you homework Erick… and you’ll find that you need
AMAZON
IBM
and a few others.
If you were smart I’d also invite the GoGRID guys and throw a bone to your advertisers..they seem to have their shit together too…

For example having a guy on that claims fame to Vista… is just not a very compelling reason to tune into this.

SO PLEASE START MATTERING and invite the real players too

By: J

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:59:14 +0000

It would be good to have some people who build the network that the cloud works on:

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Comcast, Cox

What about the companies that provide the equipment?

Cisco, Juniper, HP, Dell? You’ve got Sun, which is a good start here.

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:46:23 +0000

All I can say right now is that this is not a complete list. In fact, I just updated it with Amitabh Srivastava, Corporate VP, Windows Azure. As we get more confirmations, we’ll add them.