Bernard Golden
Named by Wired.com as one of the 10 most influential people in cloud computing, Bernard Golden serves as vice president of strategy for ActiveState Software, an independent provider of CloudFoundry. He is the author of four books on virtualization and cloud computing, his most recent book being Amazon Web Services for Dummies. Learn more about him at www.bernardgolden.com.
Why private clouds will suffer a long, slow death
While private cloud proponents have spent the last five years focusing on getting their IaaS offerings working, Amazon, Microsoft and Google have moved way beyond core computing services. And you don’t have to strain to hear the death...
Open source in the enterprise brings opportunities and challenges
When large IT organizations embrace open source software, good things can happen. And with any kind of shift in methodology, there are obstacles to overcome. When it comes to adopting open source, though, enterprises may longer have a...
5 IT industry predictions for 2016 from Forrester and IDC
The continued dominance of the cloud, and the continued shortage of talent paint a perplexing picture of the state of IT next year.
Amazon opens up about AWS revenues
Amazon Web Services is a big business that is growing fast. Amazon has typically remained quiet on the subject of AWS financials, but has finally opened up about how the service is doing. CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden looks at what...
Why the enterprise cloud needs shadow IT to succeed
Who is really responsible for cloud initiatives in the enterprise? Some say central IT, but studies show that is most certainly not the case. Enter shadow IT, which is very much alive and well in the enterprise.
As IDC Sees It, Tech's 'Third Platform' Disrupts Everyone
What IDC deems the third platform of computing -- social, mobile, cloud and big data -- is transforming IT much faster than the first (mainframe) or second (client/server) platforms ever did. This has tremendous implications for the...
The Legacy IT Conundrum: Money Pit or Value-Add?
Last week, Saugatuck Research released an analysis of IBM's new BlueMix offering. In introducing BlueMix, IBM announced its intention to invest $1 billion in application-oriented initiatives, including a commitment to CloudFoundry...
How DevOps Can Accelerate the Cloud Application Lifecycle
In the past, infrastructure deployment and application updates both slowed the development lifecycle. Now that cloud computing lets organizations provision resources in minutes, not months, it's time to alter the application...
The New Cloud Application Design Paradigm
Most of today's applications, and all of tomorrow's, are built with the cloud in mind. That means yesterday's infrastructure -- and accompanying assumptions about resource allocation, cost and development -- simply...
10 Cloud Computing Predictions for 2014
Cloud computing is increasingly becoming the rule and not the exception for application deployment. This will make 2014 an interesting and disruptive year for vendors, service providers and IT organizations grappling with this change....