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Everybody Lies

It’s no secret that Cassatt (my benevolent employer) has been struggling to make a go at selling internal cloud management software.  Our CEO, Bill Coleman, is on record stating that we ”vastly underestimated the social and cultural challenge of Cassatt.”  Surprisingly, this “challenge” often first manifests itself, not as a conceptual “value of cloud computing” sort [...]

The Elephant in the Computer Room

I was sitting next to Jay Fry in Las Vegas (not at the tables, honest), listening to Tom Bittman’s keynote opening the Gartner Data Center Conference in December, when Tom said “[according to Gartner's analysis], if you fully utilize your own equipment, Amazon [EC2] will cost you twice as much.”  Jay kept on furiously taking [...]