“Cloud Musings” Named A “Top 50 Blog”

Cloud Computing as a Strategic Asset

By G C Network | April 30, 2009

For some reason, this week seems to have more in it than most. While the steady stream of briefing request seem to be increasing, the post briefing discussions also seem…

Vivek Kundra: “Engage the American People in their Daily Digital Lives”

By G C Network | April 25, 2009

Today I attended a very impressive talk by the Federal CIO, Mr. Vivek Kundra at a Northern Virginia Technology Council Public Policy event. His open and “matter of fact” approach…

McKinsey vs. Booz Allen Hamilton !

By G C Network | April 21, 2009

A community skirmish reminiscent of the recent “manifestogate” has apparently erupted around the McKinsey & Co. report “Clearing the air on cloud computing“. Booz Allen Hamilton Principals Mike Cameron and…

Oracle Buys Sun!!

By G C Network | April 20, 2009

Swooping in from nowhere, Oracle buys Sun for $7.4B!! “This morning, the companies announced that they’d struck a deal worth $7.4 billion or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and…

Aneesh Chopra Nominated For Federal CTO

By G C Network | April 20, 2009

Although Aneesh Chopra is a new name for most, he is well know in Virginia as Governor Tim Kaine’s Secretary of Technology. For the Commonwealth, he was charged with leading…

Could Cloud Computing Cost More?

By G C Network | April 16, 2009

In a recent conference, analyst William Forrest says that large companies could end up paying more than twice as much by using cloud based services. According to a Forbes.com report,…

Cisco’s Cloud Computing Strategy

By G C Network | April 10, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, Krishna Sankar provided a glimpse into Cisco’s cloud computing strategy in a presentation titled “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Inter-Cloud” . The presentation outlined the…

NCOIC and Cloud Computing: An Update

By G C Network | April 8, 2009

As the NCOIC gets it’s arms around this new paradigm, the Cloud Computing Working Group has focused on establishing a roadmap for providing value to the industry. Using the established…

SUN-IBM Talks Breakdown

By G C Network | April 6, 2009

As reported in multiple sources today, including Reuters, Sun has apparently rejected a purchase offer by IBM. “Shares of Sun Microsystems Inc tumbled 22.5 percent after it rejected a $7…

Former DoT CIO on Cloud Computing

By G C Network | April 3, 2009

Last month, former Transportation Department CIO Dan Mintz offered his views on cloud computing to Eric Chabrow, Managing Editor of Government Information Security. According to Mr. Mintz, there is currently…

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/

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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!!!