OSCON 09: Simon Wardley, "Cloud Computing - Why IT Matters"

[tenatuntitled]

excellent presentation.

I think many people misuse the two terms invention and innovation.

According to literature in the field of innovation;

an invention is the creation of a “new device” or a service and

an innovation is the “commercial application” of that device.

Hence when cloud computing and other services are in their early stages of the 'S' curve it should be called inventions and when the market embraces them it becomes innovations

[acimatti]

excellent use of slides

[rilauats]

Great presentation I will share with my fellow developers at work.

I've seen Simon's 1 hr and 25 min versions. Managing the same crowd engagement in just 15 min is impressive.

[thyagarajesh]

Skip through first 01:10, then it becomes interesting.

[JefferySchmitz]

I was at this at OSCON and thought it was great - not sure what people are on about - it is pretty sketchy trying to define CC - anyways cheers

[hoyles82]

Love the comments from people who have clearly never given an IT presentation in their lives and fail to understand that without a common ground combined with laymen terms for the audience to relate to (ie: a rifle to a tank fight), your audience is completely confused, lost and ultimately disengaged. His efforts to mix humor with the technical explanations was very well pieced together and he gave his presentation in a concise and well-received manner. Cheers.

[smzed]

Interesting presentation!

[derek24107]

An excellent presentation with a clever use of slides to keep the audience interested....It helped me understand Cloud Computing and provide a vision of the future....

[ChrisInAStrangeLand]

Pity none of his more than 20 slides were relevant or informative.

I gave up 30 slides and two minutes in.

[jurquet]

Yeah, that's the way to go : judge a presentation on the first two minutes... Had you kept watching you would've found it interesting !

[ChrisInAStrangeLand]

I really tried, and did make it five minutes in, but it was all buzzword bingo and jokes about his 1000 irrelevant slides which presented no ideas or data.

If it gets better in the last 10 minutes then he really should have started with those 10 minutes.

[morgenstern09]

did you listen to what he SAYS at all? a good presenetation is never about the slides but about the story in the speech!

[SexxyAmberii]

hm i really don't know why it's so hard to find some cool guys on you tube!

[hackercoolio]

pro

[MrMaestro74]

This isn't even funny and he's wrong about cloud computing because it is new and not part of some old transition. Trying to hang with the cool kids and justify years of wasted effort? Pure garbage.

Regardless of what open source zealots might say, it's not important for cloud. For clouds to be sustainable they have to make profit which is why companies like Microsoft, Amazon & Salesforce are making it happen. Read the latest Gartner report on how cloud will kill off open source.

[psikeyhackr]

What rubbish. Cloud computing propaganda!

John McCarthy was talking about stuff like MULTICS was supposed to become but that was before the development of micro-electronics and microcomputers.

IBM introduced the 3033 mainframe in 1978 but it only had about the power of a 300 mhz Pentium. Today a netbook has 5 times that processing power.

Cloud computing is about MONEY. Software doesn't wear out. Nobody wants to sell software that keeps being used for 30 years. How do you profit from that?

[Arixensjach]

You're right, but that's why cloud computing is inevitable. Market forces will drive us there. So why not be prepared? He stated that not all IT is suitable for cloud computing. You've got to realize that most people will just want services provided to them. They won't care that they can provide the services themselves by collecting the needed software. They'll be happy to turn over control of the software to the service providers.

[alpenjon]

Nice

[jzacg]

Brilliant

[carbonchain]

haha simon wardley, what a legend

[LinuxOfLondon]

lol