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

Simon Wardley
(Canonical Ltd),
"Cloud Computing - Why IT Matters"

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• oscon
• oreilly media
• open source

[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!

[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!

[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.

[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 !