OSCON 09: Simon Wardley, “Cloud Computing – Why IT Matters”


Simon Wardley (Canonical Ltd), “Cloud Computing – Why IT Matters”

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21 Comments

  1. acimatti
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 7:50 am | Permalink

    excellent use of slides

  2. rilauats
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 8:06 am | Permalink

    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.

  3. thyagarajesh
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 8:17 am | Permalink

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

  4. JefferySchmitz
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 9:11 am | Permalink

    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

  5. hoyles82
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 10:07 am | Permalink

    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.

  6. smzed
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 10:31 am | Permalink

    Interesting presentation!

  7. morgenstern09
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 11:24 am | Permalink

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

  8. ChrisInAStrangeLand
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 11:42 am | Permalink

    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.

  9. jurquet
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 12:27 pm | Permalink

    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 !

  10. derek24107
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

    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….

  11. ChrisInAStrangeLand
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 1:36 pm | Permalink

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

    I gave up 30 slides and two minutes in.

  12. SexxyAmberii
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 1:44 pm | Permalink

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

  13. airstrip101
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 2:16 pm | Permalink

    Brilliant. Well done!

  14. hackercoolio
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 2:29 pm | Permalink

    pro

  15. MrMaestro74
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 2:55 pm | Permalink

    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.

  16. Arixensjach
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 3:46 pm | Permalink

    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.

  17. psikeyhackr
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 3:48 pm | Permalink

    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?

  18. alpenjon
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 4:30 pm | Permalink

    Nice

  19. jzacg
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 5:17 pm | Permalink

    Brilliant

  20. carbonchain
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 5:35 pm | Permalink

    haha simon wardley, what a legend

  21. LinuxOfLondon
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 5:42 pm | Permalink

    lol

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