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Not everyone bought my comparison of how the cloud developed and AI is developing that I posted the other day . But I wanted to flesh out some thoughts about cloud from that post and my presentation at the Linux Foundation Member Summit in 2023 . First, some house keeping. When I write "we got wrong," I don't mean everyone and some—including myself—never fully bought into a number of the…
Even if you stipulated that cloud computing was going to be a big deal, the early cloud narrative got a lot of things wrong. To name just a few which I'll deal with in a subsequent post: Cloud wasn't a utility, security really wasn't the key differentiator versus on-premise, and cost savings weren't a slam dunk. Much deeper discussion for another day. Cloud computing was an important movement but…
In April, I decided to step down from Red Hat where I had spent about the past 14 years. This will not be retirement but it will be the opportunity to step back into the analyst business and to otherwise pursue projects of my interest and liking. I'll still have a heavy emphasis on open source software, especially at the infrastructure level but I will be following and working on hardware and…