By Marten Mickos | May 10, 2012
Here is a summary of my tweets about mobile and cloud computing and the software industry from the previous months.
This is my previous tweet summary for Fall 2011. And, of course, feel free to follow my tweets in real time at http://twitter.com/#!/martenmickos
Mobile
March
Excellent review of the future of mobile http://t.co/MAgUuskc - and I am thinking "you need cloud to power all of this" 23 Mar 2012
"For the moment, Nokia, you have my undivided attention" http://t.co/64p8eLZy 12 Mar 2012
January
2.1 billion internet users and 5.9 billion mobile subscriptions in 2011 http://bit.ly/wRGNhF via @mjasay -- cloud infra is needed
Is 2012 the year of Nokia? http://t.co/fhwSUKNC via @fabricapo
"an impressive bundle on a handset that deserves to succeed" - Nokia's Mango-powered Lumia 710 http://t.co/kEaCtrpl
Cloud Computing and the Software Industry
March
OneOps, TwoOps … Exploring cloud ops: http://bit.ly/H0CzM7 by @jamesurquhart
Private cloud set to grow 10-fold in 2012 says Gartner analyst http://bit.ly/H3flDb
Cloudera adds industry's top talent to executive management team - http://bit.ly/H7BYeM
RT @mjasay: 72% of CIOs fear business leaders see cloud as way to circumvent IT zite.to/GQKiKv
Top 5 private cloud trends by Gartner's Tom Bittman @tombitt http://bit.ly/GStJl1 - "10X increase in private cloud deployments in 2012"
Lots of Eucalyptus partners on this list: OnDemand Top 100 Private Companies http://bit.ly/GCj4YY
Cloud taking glint off of Oracle - http://bit.ly/GBgJ3Q via @jtaschek
Moving12TB of data between clouds takes 4 hours to a week, depending on the cloud http://zite.to/GDE1Up via @mjasay
More non-human than human traffic on the internet http://zite.to/wuSZy7 - towards the internet of things - via @mjasay
The case for private cloud: data protection and security http://onforb.es/FPKaeg via @appscalecloud
New federal CTO Todd Park @todd_park http://t.co/U8Q8F9NH - one of the most remarkable people @timoreilly ever met
For those who are still doubtful about cloud computing (hint: it's here to stay) http://bit.ly/twiredcl via @rightscale
Happy birthday Amazon S3, 6 years old! http://t.co/DNegd3BR
RT @sogrady the funny thing is that people are surprised and saddened by Yahoo's suit: this is the inevitable, perpetual consequence of weaponized IP
RT @structureblog Oracle has a cloud computing secret http://dlvr.it/1JCklw
At #SXSW, listening to Josh Fraser of #RightScale talking about public clouds, private clouds, and cloud management http://bit.ly/xLWUkg
Hybrid IT is the new IT and it is here to stay http://bit.ly/wxkjia - Chris Howard, Gartner
The New York Times on clouds, Amazon Web Services, and open source http://nyti.ms/xrOdZ4
Overheard: Of typical IT expenses, 65% goes to old vendors, 25% is for new projects, and up to 10% is for experimentation. True?
February
What is your main driver in moving to private clouds? - Agility, say 59% of Gartner clients
was reminded by @swardley of the Jevons paradox http://bit.ly/MGRVj - new efficiency of cloud will not leave sysadmins w/o work
RT @swardley: It still bemuses me why anyone thinks they can compete with an alternative API to EC2/S3 (+EBS).
See this as an open API to the various clouds http://bit.ly/xLLxWz
RT @ericabrescia Check out our new home page for BitNami! Build. Click. Deploy. : http://bitnami.org
Hybrid cloud computing is an imperative. - Gartner
Funambol shows how cloud serves the mobile world http://youtu.be/YVyruqIAg2c
Congrats, enStratus on new product release http://bit.ly/z1lPDF for enterprise cloud management
January
Web economy in G20 set to double by 2016 http://bbc.in/AuFJxR
Standing room only at #CEE2012 when @Werner Vogels of AWS speaks
people to follow on Twitter on the topic of #cloudcomputing http://bit.ly/xTbqKF
Fear in EU of Patriot Act is a reason for private clouds http://rww.to/zGgR7e
Amazon developed a new NoSQL database - DynamoDB http://wv.ly/DynamoDB
RT @mikeolson: Congrats all around! Former US CIO @vivekkundra joins Salesforce.com as VP, Emerging Markets: http://bit.ly/zm2C68.
Advice to CIOs on cloud computing http://bit.ly/zyqC8o
RT @mikeolson: Businessweek reporter @valleyhack thinks that Microsoft's future is bright: http://buswk.co/yQNccd
Red Hat at $1bn because "IT executives want to buy products, not raw materials" http://onforb.es/qzDsKd
Open source and big data. Congrats, Cloudera, on resale deal with Oracle http://zd.net/zUup7E
Analogy: cloud computing is like a laundromat http://bit.ly/uLn2E7
Cloud market predictions for 2012 by SearchCloudComputing.com staff http://t.co/GoFjZjMj
on the impressive growth of Amazon Web Services http://t.co/0u9bLeLa
RT @jeffbarr: Big news regarding #Python, #boto, and #AWS: http://t.co/dkAzK9Ph (and @garnaat)
December
Cloud Predictions 2012 by @dr138 http://bit.ly/vXAiI5
RT @mjasay: PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services http://bit.ly/txD6n5 < Open APIs the new open source?
RT @strukhoff: 'Twas the Rev Before Christmas http://bit.ly/sYwJ5A < masterful!
RT @rwcloud: 2012 Predictions, Cloud Edition: Joe Brockmeier http://rww.to/sMoBC6
In 2012, private cloud will grow bigger, hybrid will grow - agree with VMware on this one http://zite.to/tmL7eD via @mjasay
RT @mjasay: 2011 CIO survey: Big spending on mobile, IT infrastructure...and desktop Linux http://zite.to/t2o9Fv
RT @dr138 Why Amazon's current cloud domination helps us all http://cnet.co/tCmIEw via @CNET
one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing joins enStratus http://bit.ly/vxrASQ
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