“Cloud Musings” Named A “Top 50 Blog”

An image of a light shining through a tunnel.

Transformation Network

By pwsadmin | May 15, 2021

The Achilles heel of every transformative business model is their reliance on ever increasing amounts of data that need to be transported quickly across wide area networks and processed at…

A person holding up three frames in front of their face.

Essential Characteristics of Cloud Computing as Digital Transformation

By pwsadmin | May 15, 2021

Hybrid IT blends traditional datacenters, managed service providers, and cloud service providers to deliver the necessary mix of information technology services. This IT consumption model enables a composable infrastructure which…

A mosaic of hands and flowers on the wall.

Transformation Innovation

By pwsadmin | May 15, 2021

4 Factors Driving Digital Transformation ROI The critical assessment factors for cloud ROI risk probability are the following:      Infrastructure utilization Speed of migration to cloud Ability to scale business/mission processes…

A neon sign with a handshake on it.

Transformation Frameworks

By pwsadmin | May 15, 2021

Digital transformation necessitates changes in an organization’s operational processes. According to Harvard, a focus on operations can lead to business process optimization and entirely new revenue streams. Three common routes…

A group of people standing in a room with wires hanging from the ceiling.

Transformation Infrastructure

By pwsadmin | September 26, 2020

Hybrid IT enables a composable infrastructure which describes a framework whose physical compute, storage, and network fabric resources are treated as services. Resources are logically pooled so that administrators need…

A close up of the pattern on a solar panel.

Essential Characteristics of Cloud Computing as Digital Transformation

By pwsadmin | September 25, 2020

A survey of 2,000 executives conducted by Cognizant in 2016 identified the top five ways digital transformations generate value:      Accelerating speed to market      Strengthening competitive positioning      Boosting revenue growth      Raising…

A close up of the trees in the sky

Embrace Transformation

By pwsadmin | September 22, 2020

From a business perspective, differentiating business processes and quality customer service are central to overall success. Business leaders must therefore clearly identify and measure how information technology contributes to the…

An image of a person's eye in a computer screen.

Computer Vision Advances Zero-Defect Manufacturing

By pwsadmin | July 25, 2020

by Kevin L. Jackson Electronics manufacturers operate in a challenging environment. It’s hard enough to keep up with the ever-accelerating rate of change in the industry. Now customers want increasingly…

A blue bus driving down the street with people crossing it.

Real-Time Analytics Power the Roadway of the Future

By pwsadmin | July 25, 2020

By Kevin L. Jackson The complexities of citywide traffic are pushing the limits of existing transportation management systems. Outdated infrastructure is based on proprietary, single-purpose subsystems, making it costly to…

A businessman standing on top of a cliff with his arms raised.

Thriving on the Edge: Developing CSP Edge Computing Strategy

By pwsadmin | March 6, 2020

Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are facing significant business model challenges. Referred to generally as edge computing, the possibilities introduced by the blending of 5G networks and distributed cloud computing technologies are…

My appreciation and thanks goes out to Jeremy Geelan for including “Cloud Musings” on his list of the Top 50 Cloud Computing Blogs. Thanks is also in order for “HighTechDad” (Michael Sheehan) for his insightful suggestion to create this new “prism through which to view cloud computing”.

Congratulations to my fellow cloud enthusiasts!

Dustin Amrhein  “A View from the Clouds”

Randy Bias  “Cloudscaling”

Rene Buest  https://www.clouduser.org/

Larry Carvalho “Robust Cloud”

Sam Charrington “Cloud Pulse”

Colin Clark “Cloud Event Processing”

Peter Coffee cloudblog.salesforce.com

Reuven Cohen  “Elastic Vapor”

Adrian Cole jclouds.tumblr.com

Tim Crawford  “Cloud Computing & IT Optimization”

James Downey  “Cloud of Innovation”

William Fellows blogs.the451group.com

Stephen Foskett  “GestaltIT”

Tim Freeman https://www.timfreeman.org/

Jay Fry  “Data Center Dialog”

Bernard Golden  “The Open Source”

James Hamilton  “Perspectives”

Christofer Hoff  “Rational Survivability”

Kevin L. Jackson  “Cloud Musings”

Steve Jin  https://www.doublecloud.org/

Sam Johnston  https://www.samj.net/

Ben Kepes  “The Diversity Blog”

Markus Klems  “Cloudy Times”

Dave Linthicum  “Cloud Computing”

William Louth  williamlouth.wordpress.com

Lori MacVittie  devcentral.f5.com

Paul Miller  “Cloud of Data”

Stuart Miniman  blogstu.wordpress.com

K. Scott Morrison  scottmorrison.ulitzer.com

Greg Ness  https://www.infra20.com/

Ray Nugent  “Cloudshaping: What’s shaping the Cloud”

Geva Perry  “Thinking Out Cloud”

Gregor Petri  “The Cloud Academy”

George Reese  enstratus.typepad.com/blog

Guy Rosen  www.vircado.com/blog

Ellen Rubin  “Enterprise Cloud Computing Blog”

Scott C. Sanchez  “Cloudnod”

Michael Sheehan  blog.gogrid.com

Krishnan Subramanian  “CloudAve”

John Treadway  “CloudBzz”

James Urquhart  “The Wisdom of Clouds”

William Vambenepe  “IT Management in a Changing IT World”

Werner Vogels  “All Things Distributed”

Phil Wainewright  “Software as Services”

Simon Wardley  “Bits or Pieces”

James Watters  wattersjames.posterous.com

Alan Williamson  alan.blog-city.com

Alex Williams  “ReadWrite Cloud”

John M. Willis  https://www.johnmwillis.com/

Bookmark and Share

Cloud Musings
( Thank you. If you enjoyed this article, get free updates by email or RSS – KLJ )

Follow me at https://Twitter.com/Kevin_Jackson

G C Network

2 Comments

  1. Markus on September 15, 2010 at 9:58 am

    Congratulations, Kevin! Keep up the good work. This is my favorite DoD & Gov Cloud Blog 🙂



  2. Penny Auction Bidding on January 19, 2011 at 11:00 am

    Congrats buddy!!!